The openSM2 Manager enables comprehensive online monitoring with configurable alarm management, detailed bottleneck analysis and estimations on future performance requirements.
The openSM2 Manager is used primarily to monitor the components and systems of an SE server. However, the openSM2 Manager also enables you to monitor storage systems outside the SE server provided these have been configured and licensed as required.
The openSM2 Manager supports the server systems BS2000, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware vSphere, Xen and X2000, the ETERNUS DX and Symmetrix storage systems, and all systems with SNMP capability.
At selectable intervals (monitoring intervals) agents collect monitored data on the current status of the monitored systems and store this in a database. The agents run on the Management Unit and collect the data of the monitored systems remotely, which means that openSM2 does not need to be installed on these systems. Only on BS2000 systems does an agent have to be installed locally on the monitored system. This agent transfers the monitored data to the master agent on the Management Unit over a TCP/IP connection.
The monitored data is stored in two databases. One database contains the current monitored data from the online monitoring. The second (optional) database contains archived monitored data for offline analyses. The scope of archiving (i.e. the systems and monitored variables whose monitored data is to be archived) can be configured. Furthermore, you can compress the archived monitored data by combining a number of monitoring intervals.
When the SE server is appropriately configured, the components and systems in it are automatically determined by the openSM2 Manager and included in monitoring. The openSM2 administrator must, if necessary, enter authentication data for the systems to permit the agent to establish a connection to the systems. Furthermore, the openSM2 administrator can enter further systems which are to be monitored.
Multiple systems - also with different system types - can be combined to form a system group. For example a system group can be formed with all guest systems (VM2000) on a virtualized server. Dynamic system groups permit systems to be selected and grouped according to specific criteria. The members of these system groups are not permanently defined, but are determined dynamically by filter functions, which means that new systems which are added can automatically be assigned to a system group.
The monitored systems are displayed in a tree structure which makes the assignment of the systems to system platforms and system groups visible. The color of a system entry shows the status of the system.
A summary presentation of the most important utilization values of all monitored systems with filter and sort functions provides a quick overview of the total utilization of the SE server.
Snapshot reports containing the monitored data of the current monitoring intervals and time series reports showing the time period of the monitored data are available to present the monitored data. Either the monitored data of one single system or of a system group can be presented in a report. The reports can be arranged, stored and opened again in various report views which can be freely configured by the user. Monitored data can be exported to a csv file. In an export job the user defines the period as well as the systems and monitored variables whose monitored data is to be exported.
openSM2 offers a function for automation of periodically conducted evaluations. The reports of a report view or the result of an export job can be created time-controlled and be provided as file download or sent per email.
User management with a role concept assigns the users different rights. In addition to presenting the monitored data for the monitored systems, all users can define user-specific settings. Administrators can in addition define or modify global configuration settings.
Each user can modify the display names of the systems and define system groups. He/She can modify predefined report groups, reports and monitored variables, and also define new report groups, reports and monitored variables.
The monitored data can be monitored on the basis of user-defined rules. A rule defines conditions and actions. When all the conditions of a rule are satisfied, the defined actions are performed. The alarm status is displayed by the color of the system entry in the system list which is defined in the rule.
An administrator can define which systems are to be monitored and specify settings for the agents. Furthermore, he/she can define the role and thus the rights of other users. He/She can also archive and delete monitored data.