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What is CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux? |
CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux is an enterprise IP monitor focusing on the growing Linux installed base on System z and zEnterprise systems. Comprehensive views and reporting on TCP/IP network details are provided with detailed information on:
- Data movement through the IP stack
- TCP, UDP, IP and ICMP status and statistics
- Process CPU and storage utilization
The continuous measurement provided by CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux provides details on Service Level compliance and availability, and expedites the IP problem diagnosis area. With its historical data repository capacity planners and tuning experts can plan for future business Linux application growth. |
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What makes CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux different to the original CleverView for TCP/IP? |
| CleverView for TCP/IP monitors and reports on the availability and performance of the z/OS IP stack and CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux monitors and reports on the availability and performance of the Linux IP stack. As Linux virtualization grows on System z and zEnterprise Systems, understanding the IP availability and performance data for both IP stacks is critical.
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Can I monitor specific performance levels or set alerting thresholds with CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux? |
| Absolutely. For example, the ProcessView feature provides the ability to monitor any or all Linux process activity and usage. With the combination of PortMon and Critical Resource Monitor functions you can monitor specific application processes based on their TCP port assignments, specific critical remote servers, or other IP resources, such as switches or printers. Once an item is defined both Availability and performance information are gathered. Definitions can be specified to determine status and threshold alerts defined to comply with performance guidelines. These definitions are easily set via the Web browser interface. |
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What happens when a status or performance threshold alert occurs? |
| Operations personnel using the CleverView for TCP/IP Web browser graphical interface will immediately notice any alerts due to the red highlighting on the LinuxView focal point display. The specific alerts are categorized based on the monitored Linux node and alert-group type. In addition, alerts can be forwarded as SNMP Traps to another SNMP Manager product. The configuration is simple to allow alerts to flow to an enterprise-wide SNMP Management product. A third option would be to send the alerts via SMTP e-mail to a designated operations email address. |
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In addition to real-time alerting and monitoring, does the product provide any near-time and historical reporting? |
| The product has in-built historical reporting. This is done via Thru24 and Thru99 provided filtered historical reports. Thru24 provides summaries or details for performance metrics for the past 24 hours, while Thru99 provides summaries or detailed performance metric reports based on hourly-by-day, or daily-by-week options. Some of these metrics include Links, Processes, and Response Time, as well as workloads based on protocol (IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, TCP and UDP).
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Sometimes I need to perform additional real-time problem analysis, so can the product help with diagnostics? |
| Yes, from each real-time monitoring interface, you can zoom down to specific details on specific items such as links, ports, processes, printers, protocols, or critical resources. Embedded hyperlinks on most displays provide speedy assists for further topical zoom-in, or invoke specific Thru24 reports. Alternatively, the PinPoint interface can provide short-cuts to bypass zoom-in steps and speed up diagnostics. Specialized diagnostic Utilities are included such as DNS Lookup, MIB Lookup. Another feature is the ability to browse SNMP MIB's (public and private) in real-time, resulting in a formatted display. What IP monitor would be complete without a menu-based command interface, to issue Pings or TraceRts?
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Where can I utilize CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux? |
| CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux is positioned for deployment and monitoring of any Linux on System z nodes. It has support for RedHat Linux Enterprise Server (RHEL) v5/v6, or Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v10/v11.
In addition, the product also supports any Wintel-deployed Linux platform , which customers have selected to implement within their virtualized service environment. In fact, it is fully expected that CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux should work for just about any chosen Linux system environment.
If there are any specific Linux version support and/or virtualized system implementation questions, then please forward them to AES Support support@aesclever.com, and they can provide specific insights and feedback.
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Who will be using this tool? |
| Any staff member responsible for Linux on System z system management, network performance, capacity planners and tuning specialists. Other groups ranging from virtualization project members to application development members, and cloud project members could benefit from performance and availability metrics provided by CleverView for TCP/IP for Linux.
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Will this take weeks or months to install?
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| You can install the product in just a day or two.
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