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openSM2 (Xen)
Version 9.0
System Performance Monitor
Issue
August 2010
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3
Round-the-clock performance monitoring forms the basis for effective and
economic operation of IT systems.
With the openSM2 product line, Fujitsu Technology Solutions offers a consistent
solution for the enterprise-wide performance management. openSM2 supports the
server systems Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris™, VMware™ ESX Server™,
Xen and BS2000/OSD, the storage systems Symmetrix, CLARiiON and
FibreCATand all SNMP-enabled systems.
openSM2 (Xen) provides a comprehensive online monitoring with configurable
alarm management, detailed bottleneck analyses as well as forecasts of future
performance requirements and so gives the customer the capability to optimize
the performance of his Xen systems.
openSM2 (Xen) consists of the components INSPECTOR
for online monitoring, and ANALYZER for offline analysis of
monitoring files.
Each component consists of a manager with a comfortable
graphical user interface on a Windows PC and agents
which collect performance data of the systems to be
monitored resp. analyze monitoring files.
The managers can work together with the agents of all
members of the openSM2 product line.
Online monitoring
With INSPECTOR a number of systems can be monitored
simultaneously. Besides to the graphical presentation of
the monitored data INSPECTOR offers a flexibly configurable alarm management which supports the automated
monitoring with a rule-based check of the measurement
data and automatically executable actions.
The performance data can be saved to a monitoring file for
later analysis
.
Offline analysis
The monitoring files generated by INSPECTOR are analyzed using ANALYZER. The output from ANALYZER permits accurate bottleneck and trend analyses and provides
support in planning capacity and generating reports.
Time-controlled analysis runs enable regular analyses to
be fully automated, for reporting procedures for example.
Description of the measurement variables
openSM2 (Xen) collects all relevant performance data of
the entire server and the individual virtual machines:
Number of virtual machines
Number of real and virtual processors
Utilization of processors total and by virtual machines
Memory usage by virtual machines
Data transfer rates of virtual block devices
Data transfer rates of network
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INSPECTOR
In selectable time intervals, the monitoring cycles, an agent
collects performance data relating to the current status of
the monitored systems and sends it via a TCP/IP
connection to the manager, which presents and monitors
the data. The agent running on any Windows PC or server
collects the data of the monitored systems remotely so that
no installation on these systems is necessary ("agentloses"
monitoring).
The monitored systems are displayed in the system list of
the manager. The system list has a tree structure showing
the association of the systems to system types and system
groups. The color of a system entry indicates the status of
the system. There are the possibilities “no data”, “values in
normal range” and “alarm”. The status display is constantly
updated and enables exceptional situations to be detected
instantly and an appropriate response to be made.
A number of different types of reports with a graphical or
tabular layout are available for presenting the performance
data.
Snapshot reports show the current system status in graphic
or numeric form. Time-series reports enable the user to
read off the chronological development of the measured
values over the last hours. There are global reports, which
provide an overview of multiple systems in a chart or a
table, and reports which show selected performance data
of an individual system.
The user can specify the measurement variables and
monitored objects whose measured values are to be
presented in a report, and can also define new measurement variables by linking variables by means of formulas.
The user can customize the charts in the reports by
selecting different chart types (bar, line, line logarithmized,
etc.) and colors. The charts can be printed by mouse click,
saved as a graphics file or copied to the Clipboard for
transfer to mainstream programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
A header and footer can be inserted for printout and the
labeling of the charts modified.
The monitored data provided by the systems can be supervised by means of user-defined rules. In a rule conditions
and actions are defined. If all conditions of a rule are
fulfilled an alarm for the rule is set off. The system entry in
the system list takes the color of the alarm level assigned
to the rule and the actions defined for the rule are
executed.
The following actions can be triggered:
A report with the measurement variable in question is
opened automatically for each condition of the rule.
An audible alarm is triggered.
A procedure is started on any desired monitored server.
A batch file is executed on the PC.
An e-mail or SMS is sent.
An SNMP trap is sent.
A rule can be used to link not only conditions for the
measurement variables of one system, but also conditions
for different systems.
In the rules the user can define different limit values and
actions for different times of day in order to take account of
different system usage types – for instance, online mode
during the day and batch mode during the night.
ANALYZER
With ANALYZER, multiple monitoring files – from the same
or different systems – can be analyzed simultaneously in a
single analysis run. The user specifies the type and scope
of the analysis via the user-friendly graphical interface of
the manager. The analysis job thus defined is processed by
agents and the result is then presented by the manager.
The monitoring files to be analyzed can be stored on any
server or PC where an agent is running.
The analysis result is supplied as chart and table and can
be saved as a file and also copied into mainstream programs like Excel and Word or to the Clipboard for further
processing.
Functions:
Selection of the analysis period; time windows can also
be defined and certain periods (e.g. weekends) can be
excluded
Selection of the measurement variables via report
group, report and measurement variable
Linking of a number of measurement variables by
means of formulas
Selection of monitored objects ( virtual machines, virtual
block devices, network interfaces)
Selection of different analytical functions (mean value,
frequencies, minimum, maximum, quantiles)
Creation of time series and correlation charts
Identification of overloaded resources by automatic
production of hit lists of the monitored objects with the
highest utilization values
Monitoring of specified service levels through analysis of
frequencies (e.g. percentage share of the monitoring
cycles with CPU utilization above 80%)
Discovery of functional interrelationships between
measurement variables through presentation as
correlation chart
Customizing of the charts by selection of different chart
types (bar, line, line logarithmized, etc.) and colors.
ANALYZER supports macro technology, enabling regular
analysis runs to be automated.
The long-term files of ANALYZER provide the ability to
save measured values of randomly selected measurement
variables over longer periods in compressed form on the
PC in order to produce trend analyses and support longterm capacity planning.
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TECHNICAL DETAILS
OPENSM2 (XEN) V9.0
Technical requirements
Hardware
Agent:
x86-compatible PC or server
Manager:
x86-compatible PC or server running at min. 800 MHz
with
min. 512 MB RAM
min. 100 MB free hard disk space
min. 1024 x 768 screen resolution
Software
Monitored systems:
Xen 3.x, 4.x (SuSE or Red Hat Linux Distributions)
X2000 V5.x on SQ-Server
Agent:
Microsoft Windows or Windows Server 2000 or higher
Manager:
Microsoft Windows or Windows Server 2000 or higher
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
Implementation language
C, Visual Basic
User interface
English and German; others on request
Installation
See release notice
Documentation
Online help
Training
See course offer at:
http://ts.fujitsu.com/training
Demands on the user
The user should possess in-depth system knowledge so as
to be able to analyze and interpret the performance data.
Conditions
This software product is supplied to the customer under the
conditions for the use of software products against a single
payment or installments.
Ordering and delivery
This software product can be obtained from your local
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH regional office.
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