Veritas Cluster server monitoring made easy
Clusters are used to overcome capacity shortages so your IT services stay in line with your service level agreements. Advanced cluster monitoring will help you prevent business losses by upfront actions on impacted systems.
The NiCE Veritas Cluster Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM will alert you about impacted Veritas Cluster server components that are vital to your business.
Benefits
Deliver outstanding performance and availability by advanced Veritas Cluster monitoring.
The NiCE Veritas Management Pack is a sophisticated and intelligent Enterprise Ready Management Pack designed to integrate into Microsoft SCOM.
The Management Pack collects detailed data from your Veritas Cluster server environment using predefined event conditions and threshold monitors.
The smart data and event correlation will increase the server availability and performance and will lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).
The NiCE Veritas Cluster Management Pack enables service-oriented management, as well as incident management in your Veritas environment, to support your business-critical processes.
360° PowerHA environment view
Manage your entire Veritas cluster servers from a single point of reference.
1. Using individual metrics to monitor specific details all in the System Center framework
2. Constantly optimizing the configuration and deployment through scalable monitoring
3. Ensuring high availability of critical processes
Increase the productivity of the Operations Manager administrator and operator. Avoid costly downtime by identifying issues upfront.
Built-in features like SCOM “Diagnostic Tasks” help to troubleshoot more efficiently.
Centrally configure exception-based monitoring.
Built on the original System Center Agent providing you with the best of Agent-based monitoring.
Working with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) makes it easier for IT professionals to monitor systems health and performance.
Availability is key and the last thing you want is an incomplete SLA report due to monitoring failure.
As NiCE monitoring is based on the Microsoft SCOM Agents, all HA features such as Agent redirect and multi-homing can be leveraged.
End-to-end Veritas Cluster monitoring
End-to-end Veritas Cluster monitoring is of utmost importance. Key functions required:
Auto-Discovery, mapping the Veritas Cluster server environment
Features
The NiCE Veritas Management Pack increases your operational efficiency and reduces the total cost of ownership.
It is a sophisticated and intelligent Enterprise Ready Management Pack designed to fully integrate into Microsoft SCOM.
Environments of increasing business demands and their critical applications need to be available 24/7.
The NiCE Veritas Cluster Management Pack makes sure that a failure of any single component does not affect the overall system. The Management Pack keeps the highly fault-tolerant system cost-effective and most efficient.
The Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) consists of numerous objects such as nodes, service groups, mount points, and file systems. Each object has its own properties such as failover policies, service labels, log paths, and identifiers.
In a large environment, oversight of important components is easily lost. The ‘out-of-the-box discover’ allows the discovery of all VCS objects including an extensive list of properties for each object.
This also includes support for Veritas Storage Foundation HA and also products previously sold by Symantec.
Utilizing the OpsMgr class model, a full VCS inventory model is mapped out. With integrations to SC Service Manager, this valuable information is also available with Microsoft System Center Service Manager.
In the case of a resource group experiencing a service incident, for example, a node failure, the cluster manager acts upon the failover policies and initiates a failover of resource groups to another available node.
Failover detection rules will evaluate relevant entries in the cluster log as well as using cluster utilities to inform you about the events that occurred during failover.
Incidents impacting high-available infrastructure components must be processed with high urgency. The NiCE Veritas Cluster Management Pack includes monitors and alert rules to provide immediate, comprehensive information on impacted components within a Veritas Cluster environment.
Core monitoring components:
1. Cluster
2. Service Group
3. Cluster Resources
4. Mount Points
5. Cluster File System
The detailed information drastically helps to understand issues and to reduce the mean time to recover.
VCS Service Groups contain critical resources of a cluster, typically interfaces, mount points, or file systems. If a service group fails or becomes unavailable, resources are impacted.
In order to be on top of all the service group impacting events, the NiCE Veritas Cluster Management Pack includes several monitors dedicated to file system and service group monitoring.
Furthermore, the Management Pack complements the monitoring provided by the Microsoft Linux management packs.
Rely on Microsoft proven monitoring technology. No additional monitoring adjustment is needed. Simply put up the Microsoft agents for high availability.
Mission-critical workloads require consistent performance. Good SLA reporting helps to manage, monitor, and modify resources the right way at any time.
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