NiCE Veritas Management Pack
More Performance, Control, and Security for Your Veritas Clusters
What are Veritas Clusters?
Veritas Clusters, part of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), are high-availability and disaster recovery solutions designed to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. They are used to manage and automate failover for critical applications, databases, and services across multiple servers, preventing service interruptions in case of hardware or software failures.
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.
Advanced Veritas Cluster Monitoring
Discovery
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.
Fail-Over Cluster Detection
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.
Veritas Cluster Server Alerting
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.
Service Group Monitoring
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.
High-Availability Monitoring
Rely on Microsoft proven monitoring technology. No additional monitoring adjustment is needed. Simply put up the Microsoft agents for high availability.
SLA Reporting
Mission-critical workloads require consistent performance. Good SLA reporting helps to manage, monitor, and modify resources the right way at any time.
Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM
Monitoring Veritas Clusters with Microsoft SCOM is a great idea because it provides real-time visibility into cluster health, performance, and failover events, ensuring high availability for critical applications.
By integrating Veritas Cluster monitoring into SCOM, IT teams can proactively detect issues, reduce downtime, and automate alerts for faster incident resolution. This unified monitoring approach enhances overall system reliability, streamlines troubleshooting, and helps maintain compliance with business continuity requirements.
Better Veritas Cluster Monitoring
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.
Fast
Identify problems faster
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.
Integrated
Seamless SCOM Integration
Get a sophisticated integration into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Pinpoint root causes, and solve issues efficiently.
Lightweight
Centrally configure exception-based monitoring
Built on the original System Center Agent, providing you with the best agent-based monitoring.
Working with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) makes monitoring systems’ health and performance easier for IT professionals.
Holistic
360° 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
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