The IBM PowerHA Management Pack is based on the NiCE Cluster Library, NiCE Common Source Library and System Center Library. The re-use of existing components ensures that robustness, supportability and reliability is greatly improved. It also provides protection of your IT investment because the NiCE Cluster Library MP is designed to span numerous cluster solutions. Moving between cluster solutions will not require deletion of any management packs or render performance data unusable.
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Features
- Comprehensive discovery
- Detailed Resource Group Monitoring
- Native SCOM integration means: no additional services to be installed, no ports to be opened, re-use of existing AIX agent
- Using standard SCOM views and MP architecture
- Built on reliable NiCE components
Benefits
- Full overview of PowerHA landscape
- Quickly identify issues impacting service availability
- High ROI, great ease of use
- Low learning curve, ease of use
- Peace of mind, high value, competitive price
- Align IT operations and services with business needs
- Visualize capacity shortages and trends
Comprehensive PowerHA Discovery
IBM PowerHA consists of numerous objects such as Nodes, Resources, Resource groups and AIX computers. Each object has its own properties i.e. startup policies, service labels, logpaths and identifiers. In a large environment, oversight of important components is easily lost. The ‘out-of-the-box discover’ allows discovery of all PowerHA objects including an extensive list of properties for each object. Utilizing the OpsMgr class model, a full PowerHA inventory model is mapped out. With integrations to SC Service Manager this valuable information is also available with Microsoft System Center Service Manager.
IBM PowerHA Alerting
Incidents impacting high-availability infrastructure components must be processed with high urgency. For this reason, the NiCE PowerHA
MP includes a number of monitors and alert rules to provide immediate, comprehensive information on impacted components within your PowerHA environment.
The NiCE PowerHA MP includes monitoring of 10 different cluster availability states including ‘joining’, ‘barrier’, ‘cbarrier’ and many others. Additionally, if an incorrect configuration is applied to a cluster, the NiCE PowerHA MP has the capability to raise the correct alert instead.
The detailed information given by the NiCE PowerHA MP drastically
Failover Cluster Detection
In the case of a resource group experiencing a service incident, e.g. a node failure, the cluster manager acts upon the failover policies and initiates a failover of resource groups to another available node (as an example of what is possible). Failover detection rules will evaluate relevant entries in the cluster log as well as use cluster utilities to inform you about the events that occurred during failover.
Resource Group Monitoring
PowerHA Resource Groups contain critical resources of a cluster, typically interfaces and mount points. If a resource group fails or becomes unavailable, resources are impacted. In order to be on top of all the resource group impacting events, the NiCE PowerHA MP includes several monitors dedicated to resource and resource group monitoring. Furthermore, the MP complements the monitoring provided by the Microsoft AIX management packs.
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