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SystemEDGE Features
SystemEDGE is an SNMP-compliant agent which provides an access to the monitored elements using an industry standard MIB. SystemEDGE also provides an extensible plug-in (AIM) interface to monitor specific environments, such as vCenter Server, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones, or IBM PowerVM (LPAR). SystemEDGE provides the status and performance data to the CA Virtual Assurance manager. To manage the virtual environments and servers, SystemEDGE is mandatory.
The features that SystemEDGE provides are listed as follows. The listed features help you to compare and identify the difference between SystemEDGE and other agents:
- SNMP-compliant agent
- SNMP-based traps
- SNMP v1/v2/v3 communications
- Monitoring restriction by computer name/address
- CAM-based communications (for configuration operations only)
- International platform support
- Perl-compatible regular expressions
- Support for multiple manager instances
- Support for Spectrum IM
- Support for eHealth
- Support for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management
- Support for third-party Managers
- File based configuration
- Manager UI-based configuration
- Multi-tier hierarchical object model
- Agent-based threshold monitoring
- Aggregated monitors
- Support for Host Resource MIB
- Windows Performance Metrics (partial support)
- Wide breadth UNIX or Linux monitoring
- True average performance monitoring
- Support for Service Response Monitoring (AIM)
- Support for agent-less Remote Monitoring (AIM)
- Support for vCenter Server management (AIM)
- Support for Hyper-V management (AIM)
- Support for Solaris Zones management (AIM)
- Support for LPAR management (AIM)
- Support for MSCS management (AIM)
- Support for UCS management (AIM)
- Support for Exchange Server and Active Directory management (AIM). Not applicable to CA Server Automation.
