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AppManager for Microsoft Cluster Service

AppManager for Microsoft Cluster Service expands NetIQ's AppManager Suite (AppManager), the industry's leading solution for managing, diagnosing and analyzing the performance and availability of Windows- and Unix-based systems, applications and server infrastructures. AppManager for Cluster Service not only lets you optimize Cluster Service performance and ensure availability through automated event detection and correction, but also lowers support costs associated with managing your Cluster Service deployment.

Key Benefits

  • Supplies performance reporting.  Manages Microsoft Cluster Server well beyond statistics provided by standard PerfMon counters and stores performance data directly to a SQL Server database, making long-term trend analysis easy.
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  • Provides proactive event management.  Delivers robust fault management by pro-actively detecting potential problems that can impact the availability of your Cluster Server environment.
  • Allows for easy automation.  Lets you easily set upevent-drivenactions—such as sending email or pager alerts, generating an SNMP trap to a network manager or running a corrective fix program—to automatically execute when specific events occur.
  • Decreases costs.  Lowers support costs by enabling you to view the health and status of your distributed MSCS environment from a central location and by providing prepackaged business rules, known as Knowledge Scripts for managing your systems and applications.

Management Functions

Here are some of the out-of-the-box management functions provided by AppManager for Cluster Service:

  • Automatically detect cluster node state changes.
  • Track the state of cluster groups and optionally brings them back online if necessary.
  • Determine if a cluster resource has changed its state and optionally brings it online if necessary.
  • Monitor the state of cluster network and network interfaces.
  • Monitor the Windows NT Server Event Logs for cluster-specific error messages.
  • Automatically detect if the cluster service changes its state, down or hung, and optionally restarts the service.
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