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Systems Management

CA Virtual Assurance is designed to manage virtual environments, but it also discovers and manages systems (managed nodes). CA Virtual Assurance supports the following operating systems on managed nodes:

• AIX
• HP-UX
• Linux, zLinux
• Solaris (Intel, SPARC)
• Windows

Available management components for managed nodes are:

• SystemEDGE
• Advanced Encryption AIM
• Remote Monitoring AIM (Windows Servers only)
• Service Response Monitoring (SRM) AIM
• CA Systems Performance LiteAgent

  

SystemEDGE is the base for systems management in CA Virtual Assurance and provides the following benefits:

• Centralized remote agent deployment to all managed systems
• Centralized remote agent configuration
• Visualization of all monitored metrics, including status information from the object model of the agent
• Remote deployment and configuration of the Service Response Monitor AIM
• Enhanced agent security options

More Information

Agent Configuration

Security and Maintenance

Agent Visualization

SystemEDGE Features

Service Response Monitoring

Interaction Between Remote Monitoring Components