NiCE PowerHA Management Pack
for Microsoft SCOM
Centralized monitoring ensures top response time and availability, reduces costs, saves time
and improves user experience.
IBM PowerHA Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM
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 PowerHA Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM alerts you on impacted PowerHA components that are vital to your business.
Benefits
Deliver outstanding performance and availability by advanced IBM PowerHA monitoring.
The NiCE PowerHA 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 PowerHA environment using predefined event conditions and threshold monitors.
The smart data and event correlation will increase the IBM PowerHA (HACMP) server availability and performance while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).
The NiCE PowerHA Management PACK enables service-oriented management, as well as incident management in your PowerHA environment, to support your business-critical processes.
360° PowerHA environment view
Manage your entire IBM PowerHA environment 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 like Agent redirect and multi-homing can be leveraged.
Supercharge your IBM PowerHA monitoring
End-to-end PowerHA monitoring is of utmost importance. Key functions required:
- Clear and precise performance indicators
- Single pane of glass view of your systems
- Timely alerts
- Pinpoint problem identification
- In-depth reporting
- Streamlined workflow
PowerHA Diagram View
Features
The NiCE PowerHA 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 PowerHA Management Pack makes sure that a failure of any single component does not affect the overall system. It is keeping the highly fault-tolerant system cost-effective and most efficient.
IBM PowerHA consists of numerous objects such as Nodes, Resources, Resource groups, and AIX computers. Each object has its own properties such as startup 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 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.
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 PowerHA Management Pack includes monitors and alert rules to provide immediate, comprehensive information on impacted components.
It 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 Management Pack raises the correct alert instead.
The detailed information given drastically helps to understand issues and to reduce the mean time to recover.
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 Management Pack includes several monitors dedicated to resource and resource group monitoring.
Furthermore, it complements the monitoring provided by the Microsoft AIX 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.
FAQ
Get answers to the most frequent questions regarding the NiCE Power HA Management Pack for SCOM
The NiCE PowerHA Management Pack supports PowerHA SystemMirror 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 on AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2
Please check the support matrix for details
The NiCE PowerHA Management Pack supports Microsoft SCOM 2012 R2, 2016, 2019
The NiCE PowerHA Management Pack is licensed per physical or virtual UNIX/Linux production server hostname.
The NiCE PowerHA Management Pack requires the Microsoft Cross-Platform Agents.
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Your NiCE IT Management Solutions Team