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Chapter 1. NovaScale Master Server Add-ons Concepts
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Chapter 1. NovaScale Master Server Add-ons Concepts
1.1 NovaScale Master
1.1.1 Overview
NovaScale Master monitoring ensures the following tasks:
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Monitoring NovaScale machines: NovaScale Master checks if these hosts are
accessible, using the ping command from the System Manager. The machines to be
monitored are either explicitly specified by the administrator or selected by a discovery
mechanism.
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Monitoring specific elements of the hardware, operating system, services and Internet
such as Power Status, CPU load, memory usage, disk usage, number of users,
processes and service execution, http and ftp services.
The administrator can define status thresholds (OK, WARNING, CRITICAL,
UNKNOWN) for each monitoring element. When an anomaly occurs or when normal
status is recovered, alerts (in a log file) and notifications (by e-mail, by Bull autocall
and/or by SNMP trap) are generated.
Note:
Hardware and OS monitoring for Bull Intel-Based platforms are provided by the NovaScale
Master Server package, not by the Add-Ons packages.
NovaScale Master Server Add-Ons extend the NovaScale Master monitoring with more
specific links to third-party management tools for specific devices or/and specific system
functionalities.
Note:
These Server Add-Ons packages extend generally the management server independently of
the platform or/and OS type (storage, network, virtualization, framework, ...).
NovaScale Master, a tool for monitoring and managing Bull NovaScale and Express 5800
systems, consists of three main components that can be deployed on Windows and Linux
systems:
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Management Server and Server Add-ons
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Management Console
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Management Agent.
Management Server and Server Add-ons
Provides the infrastructure and services in charge of collecting and operating management
data. Management Server must be installed on the server dedicated to management.
Management Console
Provides third-party management tools for the end-user station running the NovaScale
Master console WEB GUI.