topic Re: heterogenous server farm in Operating System - HP-UX

heterogenous server farm

Edgar_8 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:42:36 GMT

Hi,

We have a hetrogenous server farm consisting of all the major O/S and hardware vendors (ie.Linux;
Solaris;HPUX;AIX;True64;Hitachi;Storagetek etc). Does anyone work in such an evironment & if so what is
your approach to:
- managing/administering the various servers & O/S
- monitoring environments
- performance evaluation
- capacity planning etc.

Thanks in advance!

Re: heterogenous server farm

LoC_1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:40:47 GMT

Edgar

ou may want to look at HP Systems Insight Manager.
You can have all the details at :

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Louis

Re: heterogenous server farm

Carl Munnelly — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:46:01 GMT

Hi I work have worked in various site with various O/S before.

Use generic applications (i.e. Patrol to monitor systems performance wise, Perfview to get historical record of performance etc, Openview to monitor network (use smntp traps to collect information).

You can use admin tools on systems to perform most tasks (SAM=HP-UX, ADMINTOOL=SOLARIS,SMIT=AIX) - this avoids you having to remember all the various O/S commands.

I would also requester with each suppliers site (like ITCR, SUNsolve, IBM (AIX) etc.

Re: heterogenous server farm

Chan 007 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:59:07 GMT

Hi,

I have a similar one, All you have to work our is a Project. Thats what was done here.

1. Migrating all batch jobs is one big ?. But easy when used controlM a product from BMC.

2. Also used Patrol from BMC for H/W monitoring & Perf

3. If you need to monitor network then go for Ovenview

4. CP using either Patrol or software from Athene metron.

5. Have your Control of Operations to monitor one GUI system in stead for many, as they may get confused or miss one.

6. Use Command Post for alerting

Chan

Re: heterogenous server farm

Senthil Kumar .A_1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:07:46 GMT

Hi Edgar,

The below mentioned activities namely,

- managing/administering the various servers & O/S
- monitoring environments
- performance evaluation
- capacity planning etc...

need a starter, if ur organization is ready for next generation management, you need to look into ITSM cocept which is popular in the IT management nowadays.

One of the front line products in this area is HP OVO suite, which comprises of roughly(OVO,NNM,DP..etc).

Once you have configured for monitoring of all the IT infrastructure, your next course of action would be configuring automated recovery scripts for different services.

Ofcourse, Backup of your data plays a very important role aswell in such a setup. You have excellent solutions from veritas.

The performance analysis has become a intergral part of HP OV suite now.

Well capacity planning comes, from the assimilation of benchmarking data of performance related parameters based on load. So, the starter is initiating a ITSM environment. You have host of products in this line from IBM,CA ,...etc.. and by our very own HP.. HP's Openview product.

Regards,
Senthil Kumar. A

Re: heterogenous server farm

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:30:27 GMT

hi,

quite difficult to find a single solution for all these.

You may consider looking into HP Openview products.

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: heterogenous server farm

Alzhy — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:55:14 GMT

Your best bet is to dig deep into your pockets and see if you can afford any of the offerings by HP (OpenView ITO), CA (Unicenter TNG) and BMC (Patrol Suite)...

Of course nothing beats having Admins/Techs that are savvy in most of the UNIX/Linux dialects and Storage.

I will also hire a C/Shell/Perl Wiz that can be trained as a UNIX Admin and who can develop in-house monitoring so you have a common interface to security/account management, system management, monitoring (which is easily done).

For centralised account management in a heterogenous environment - I will still go with NIS/NIS+ but if you can go with LDAP - that is even better.