A Sun Solaris Zone defines a virtualized operating system platform (called a zone) that provides an isolated, secure environment in which to run applications. This allows allocation of resources among applications and services, and helps ensure that processes do not affect other zones. Solaris manages each zone as one entity. A container is a zone that also uses the operating system's resource management. The Solaris Zones PMM provides health monitoring, management, and provisioning of Solaris Zones environments.
The Zone application insight module (AIM) is a plugin to the CA SystemEDGE agent that lets you manage the infrastructure of your Sun Solaris systems environment. When you integrate the Sun Solaris Zone AIM with CA NSM, you can discover the Sun Solaris Zone AIM, view its monitored data, and configure how it monitors.
Note: For more information about enabling and configuring the Sun Solaris Zone AIM in CA Virtual Performance Management (CA VPM), see the CA VPM documentation.
We can monitor and configure VPM (Sun Solaris Zones, Citrix XenServer, VMware vCenter Server, and IBM LPAR) AIM agent from NSM manager which can reside on same or remote windows server using Abrowser and DSM policy.
VPM Abrowser support is based on the CA NSM existing framework and Unicenter TNG Technolgy. Agent Browser utility is a generic application that is used to build GUI applications to display the contents of SNMP‑compliant agents. This utility reads simple text files to build a graphical interface that can be tailored to the individual needs of a particular agent.
VPM DSM policy and WVC is based on the CA NSM DSM framework and responsible to perform platform level discovery and WV object state management according to polling and traps received from AIM.
VPM Performance sponsor module is responsible to collect data from VPM proxy service component.
The CA NSM discovery process creates and classifies new objects in the Management Database (MDB). After VPM objects (Sun Solaris Zones, Citrix XenServer, VMware vCenter Server, and IBM LPAR) are discovered, the VPM Integration for CA NSM performs a second-level discovery process to find any VPM objects present on the nodes. Your agents must be installed and running properly for the discovery process to succeed. The resulting objects are then linked to the appropriate Business Process Views in WorldView.
To discover VPM resources, enter the following command at the command prompt:
dscvrbe -7 hostname -v 9
Specifies the host name of the VPM server that the VPM AIM is managing.
Objects discovered as a part of the VPM Integration with CA NSM are represented by the Business Process View icon labeled VPM. When you drill down, icons for Solaris Zones, Citrix XenServer, VMware vCenter, and IBM LPAR environments appear, depending on the type of environments that are discovered.
Note: For more information about the CA NSM discovery process, see the Administration Guide. For more information about discovery command options, see the CA Reference Guide. Both documents are available with the CA NSM documentation set.
The discovery process generates a comprehensive view of the IBM LPAR topology that you can view in the MCC. The following IBM LPAR objects are discovered:
The LPAR AIM Agent View lets you configure how the LPAR AIM manages all IBM LPAR resources, such as CPU and memory settings for LPAR servers, LPARs, and so on.
To start the LPAR AIM Agent View from the MCC
The LPAR AIM Agent View appears.
To start the LPAR AIM Agent View from the command line, open a command prompt and enter the following command:
abrowser -c browser.calparaim -h lparaimhost
Specifies the host name of the server on which the LPAR AIM is installed.
The discovery process generates a comprehensive view of the Solaris Zones topology that you can view in the MCC. The product discovers the following Solaris Zones objects:
The Zones AIM Agent View lets you configure how the Zones AIM manages all Solaris Zones resources, such as CPU and memory settings for Zones servers, Zones, and so on.
To start the Zones AIM Agent View
To start the Zones AIM Agent View from the command line, open a command prompt and enter the following command:
abrowser -c browser.cazoneaim -h zoneaimhost
Specifies the host name of the server on which the Zones AIM is installed.
Objects discovered as a part of the Cirtix XenServer Integration with CA NSM are represented by the Business Process View icon labeled VPM. When you drill down, icons for XenServer environments appear, depending on the type of environments that are discovered.
CA NSM discovers the following XenServer resources:
Notes:
The CA Citrix XenServer AIM View lets you configure how the XenServer AIM manages all Citrix XenServer resources, such as CPU and memory settings for VMs, XenServers, resource pools, and so on.
To start the Citrix XenServer AIM View from the MCC
The Citrix XenServer AIM View appears.
To start the Citrix XenServer AIM View from the command line, open a command prompt and enter the following command:
abrowser -c browser.cacxenaim -h xenaimhost
Specifies the host name of the server on which the XenServer AIM is installed.
The discovery process generates a comprehensive view of the VMware vCenter Server topology that you can view in the MCC. The following VMware vCenter Server objects are discovered:
The VC AIM Agent View lets you configure how the VC AIM manages all vCenter Server resources, such as CPU and memory settings for VMs, ESX servers, resource pools, and so on.
To start the VC AIM Agent View from the MCC
The VC AIM Agent View appears.
To start the VC AIM Agent View from the command line, open a command prompt and enter the following command:
abrowser -c browser.cavmvcaim -h vcaimhost
Specifies the host name of the server on which the VC AIM is installed.
By default all AIMs in the VPM integration are disabled. If you want to enable them, then perform the following steps:
MCC window opens.
Selected AIMs are enabled.
Note: You can enable AIMs by using dsmwiz also.
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