...the cockpit for your IT systems

BVQ web server 

• add scanners, to receive your data
• activate the alerting, to see your Health Map
• enable notifications
• make use of reports
  
  

Grafana 

• BVQ custom Dashboards for your systems
  
  

BVQ Expert GUI

• complex and deep analysis tool

Access the BVQ Server

the default address is

First start

The first login after an update or an installation you will be shown the BVQ Maintenance page.

There you need to start the schema adjustments and Activate Demo, after this task you will be redirected to the BVQ main page.

Depending on your browser, it may be necessary to clear the cache, when the sites are not loading or the screen is flickering.

The default BVQ credentials are:

Add a platform-specific scanner

BVQ uses data, collected by scanners from the connected systems. The scanners are product-specific and are managed in the scanner area.

• Open "Scanner" and "Scanner configuration"

Configure the scanner

• "Name" the scanner

"Hostname" is the FQN or the IP

The Credentials are used for the connection to the specific system, which will be scanned.

The default values do not have to be changed. 

• If you are configuring a Brocade scanner, you may need to use the Discover Fabric button.
• If you are configuring a VMware scanner, you need to add the "/sdk" behind the URL.
• Press Save & Exit 

Scanner delay

due to the different amount of data it is possible that the scanners will need quite some time to move to a green state

Activate the Alerting

With this step, you will take the BVQ Systems Health map into operation.

Navigate to the main tab ALERTING and then to the sub tab Configuration.

The Alert rules are categorized by systems and chapters.

Initially all predefined alert rules are disabled.

Enable some (slider) or all alert rules for the systems applicable to your environment.

System Health Map

After enabling the alert rules, the System Health Map will be ready.

Navigate to the main tab ALERTING and then to the sub tab Results.

Mouseover an alert rule, will give you a short summary of the results of the alert rule. 

By simply clicking on an section or alert, the shown area will be changed. By clicking into the center, you can drill up again.

Move to Dashboards and Browse

There you can open up the specific System and the specific Dashboard