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VERITAS CommandCentral™ Availability 4.1

CommandCentral Availability is a high availability management solution that monitors and manages multiple clusters from a single console. Improve IT staff productivity and increase availability of mission-critical applications.

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VERITAS CommandCentral™ Availability 4.1

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  1. VERITASCommandCentral™ Availability 4.1 Presentation: Minakshi Sehgal- Product Marketing Manager

  2. Agenda • Challenges • CommandCentral Availability Defined • Key Features • Architecture and Compatibility • Future Roadmap • Q & A

  3. Business TodayCreeping Complexity and Costs • More clustered servers • Multiple versions of clusters across multiple platforms.

  4. Challenges • How do you manage your clusters? • How do you ensure that your clusters are configured properly? • How do trace clusters problems to the root cause?

  5. CommandCentral Availability • CommandCentral Availability is a high availability management solution that provides a framework to monitor and manage multiple clusters in various architectures from a single console.

  6. Availability info On/OfflineStorage info Service info VERITAS Cluster Server VERITAS NetBackup & Backup Exec VERITAS Storage Foundations Heterogeneous Hardware Layer CommandCentral Defined Plus 3rd party support

  7. CommandCentralTM AvailabilityKey Business Benefits • Improve IT staff productivity so that they can focus their time and effort on the responsibilities that affect the bottom line • Increase availability of mission critical applications to meet service level goals

  8. Key FeatureCentralized Cluster Management Remotely manage multiple VCS versions on multiple platforms, at multiple datacenter locations The web-based console lets you manage from anywhere on your network Send commands or make configuration changes to multiple managed clusters, groups, and resources; with a single action Quickly locate specific managed objects by filtering on key attributes

  9. Key FeatureSite-Based DR Management With a single operation, migrate all global applications from a primary site to the DR site With a single operation, online all global groups at DR site when primary site experiences a failure. Wizard-based operation walks through required migration steps

  10. Key FeatureHistorical View of Cluster Operations Records operational history (events) of all managed clusters and clustered applications Track activity by individual user account as way to audit cluster operations Filter events by severity, type, time to quickly locate items of interest

  11. Key FeaturePolicy-Based Alert Management Define centralized policies to monitor state changes and notify via visible alerts, email, or SNMP traps Built-in mechanism enables consistent means to acknowledge and resolve alerts High-level alert summary visible from any view. Links to detailed alerts view Filter alerts by severity, time, and other key attributes

  12. Key FeatureIntegrated Operational Reporting Create reports based on pre-defined report types View output from current, or cached, reports Run reports manually or schedule automatic runs Raw historical data available via ODBC for 3rd party report generators Filter jobs and output views

  13. Key FeatureIntegrated Management Tools Move seamlessly between CommandCentral modules without logging in again Cross-link to in-context views in VCS cluster manager web console without logging in again

  14. Management Server (MS) • Core Services • Management server • Alert Manager server • Database server • Web server • Authentication Broker • Platforms: Solaris, Windows 2K/2K3 • Support for 2 peer MS in 4.0 • Can run stand-alone or clustered • Cluster Monitor (CM) • Agent that acts as communication conduit between MS and VCS • Installed on all nodes in managed cluster • Runs on one node of managed cluster • Platforms: Solaris, Win2K/2K3 AIX, HP-UX, Linux • Supports push install (RSH or SSH) • Coded in C++ for small memory footprint Scalable Deployment Architecture

  15. Compatibility • Management Server (Platform Support) • -Solaris 7, 8, 9 -Windows 2000, 2003 • Cluster Monitor (VCS/Platform Support) • -AIX -HP:UX -Linux -Solaris -Windows • Browsers Supported (Web Client Support) • -Internet Explorer 6.0 or later -Netscape 7.0 or later

  16. CommandCentralTM Availability Roadmap • CCAvail 4.2 • Added support for new version of VCS 4.2 for Windows and VCS 4.1 on Solaris • Support for VERITAS Sub-Security System enabled Clusters for VERITAS Storage Foundation HA for Windows -4.2 • Enhanced cluster status views • CCAvail 4.3 • Co-synchronous release with VCS to better align with the VERITAS Cluster Server 2Q2005 3Q2005

  17. Thank You

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