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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:

• Agent-based threshold monitoring
• Aggregated monitors
• CAM-based communications (for configuration operations only)
• File based configuration
• International platform support
• Manager UI-based configuration
• Monitoring restriction by computer name/address
• Multi-tier hierarchical object model
• Perl-compatible regular expressions
• SNMP-compliant agent
• SNMP-based traps
• SNMP v1/v2/v3 communications
• Support for agent-less Remote Monitoring
• Support for CA Spectrum IM
• Support for CA eHealth
• Support for CA NSM
• Support for Cisco UCS monitoring and management
• Support for Citrix XenDesktop monitoring
• Support for Citrix XenServer monitoring and management
• Support for Active Directory and Exchange Server monitoring
• Support for Host Resource MIB
• Support for Huawei GalaX monitoring and management
• Support for IBM PowerHA monitoring
• Support for IBM LPAR monitoring and management
• Support for KVM monitoring and management
• Support for Microsoft Cluster monitoring and management
• Support for Microsoft Hyper-V monitoring and management
• Support for multiple manager instances
• Support for Oracle Solaris Zones monitoring and management
• Support for Remote Monitoring
• Support for Service Response Monitoring
• Support for third-party Managers
• Wide breadth UNIX or Linux monitoring
• Support for VMware vCenter Server monitoring and management
• Support for VMware vCloud monitoring and management
• True average performance monitoring
• Windows Performance Metrics (partial support)