CA Nimsoft Monitor

Gain Visibility and Control with Powerful, Actionable Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Insights

With CA Nimsoft Monitor for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, your team gets a comprehensive solution for managing events, alarms, and performance within Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments. CA Nimsoft Monitor arms you with the essential features you need to efficiently and effectively monitor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization:

• Delivering automated monitoring configuration, deployment, and display.
• Automatically correlating VM hosts and guests.
• Retaining monitoring and thresholds when resource levels change or when VM guests are moved.

When used with additional elements of the CA Nimsoft Monitor solution, the same monitoring platform can be used to monitor service levels and application metrics and allow you to effectively meet and keep service level agreements for mission critical applications hosted within your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure.

Comprehensive Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Monitoring Capabilities

CA Nimsoft Monitor offers a host of features that make it ideally suited to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments:

Flexible Integration

• Specific, comprehensive support for Red Hat Linux-based Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments.

• Agentless implementation—using remote management interfaces to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for data collection.
• APIs and gateways that allow integration of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization monitoring with your data center tools and wider environment.
• Integration with other CA Nimsoft Monitor solutions provides a complete monitoring view of all business services, whether they run in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments, the data center, private clouds, or public clouds.

Monitoring Efficiency

• Automated configuration, deployment of monitoring to VM guests based on VM guest parameters.
• Automated display of monitoring data using configurable, template-based list views.
• Discovery management views that include Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager instances, VMs, and resource views.
• Monitors multiple Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization instances with a single data collector.
• Automated discovery of virtual elements within the environment—including resource pools, physical hosts and VM guests.

Practical, Intuitive Insights

• Alerts, trending, and real time intelligence support proactive problem prevention, and fast detection and correction of issues when they occur.
• Prebuilt displays and dashboards showing physical and virtual resource status.
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization intelligence ensures persistent, cohesive, and accurate monitoring view of changing virtualized environments.
• Granular, correlated views needed to ensure complex, mission critical business services deliver the performance and availability required.
• Monitoring of the health and performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager management environment—including server status, performance and availability of the operating system, performance statistics, and the processing status of the application itself.
• Sophisticated usage tracking and reporting that enables effective communication of business value.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Monitoring that Delivers Business Benefits

With CA Nimsoft Monitor, your business can:

• Reduce administrative effort and costs associated with monitoring dynamic Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments.
• Maximize the utilization and value of both physical and virtual resources.
• Prevent downtime and improve SLA compliance.
• Ensure peak levels of performance and availability.
• Maximize utilization of your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment in order to support more users, applications, and VMs.
• Streamline Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization monitoring administration.
• Improve tracking and demonstrate the business value of your virtualized environment.

Supported Versions

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0x (MS Windows versions not supported)

Monitoring Coverage

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

• API availability, API response time
• Access is via RHEV Manager’s REST API
• Probe has visibility to all content managed by the RHEV Manager
• Content addresses Storage, Hypervisors, and VMs
• Resource Metrics provide summary data

Storage Domains

• Top level RHEV component
• Storage status and allocation

DataCenters

• Top level RHEV component
• Container for the virtualization components

Clusters

• Everything within a Data Center is under a Cluster
• Metrics target configuration settings and events

Hosts

• Hypervisors
• Contained with a single cluster
• Performance / status information, basic configuration, and events

Templates

• Organizational component around VM creation within a cluster

Resource Pools

• Organizational component around VM creation within a template
• Status, CPU settings and status, Memory setting and status

VMs

• Performance / status information, basic configuration, and events

CPU

• By virtual, physical
• Usage, reserve capacity, extra, guaranteed, idle time, wait
• Reserved CPU usage, averages, counts

Host Sensor

• Current reading, health state

Events

• Error, warning, usage, information

Disk—Overall and per Disk, Physical and Virtual

• Bus resets, commands aborted & issued, read rate, read requests, write rate, write requests

Network

• Physical and virtual, overall and per network device
• Data receive/transmit rates, packets received/transmitted

System

• Some metrics only host or only VM
• Running/maintenance/power state, Guest OS/heartbeat, disk capacity/free/%, Memory size/physical/guaranteed/host use%/not to exceed, Virtual CPU number of virtual/overall usage/guaranteed/not to exceed, CPU host usage/number of cores/speed per core/cpu packages/cpu threads, overall alarm status, heartbeats, total time, service and VM application console CPU usage, CPU status, Full Name, Host name, Host memory status/info, system status, VMcount/count active, CPU reserved, GuestDisk capacity/free/free%, guest host names/IP address, snapshot count/size, tool running status, VMname