1.1 Overview of the SSO
As corporate networks get bigger, the workload on their business servers is increasing. Since a shutdown of these servers would also cause business activity to close down, the administrator must consider system resources management for these servers to be just as important as network management.
The SSO is a group of programs that monitor system resources, processes, and services on network servers. If a specified threshold is exceeded, a process stops, or a change in the operating status of a service is detected, an event can be issued to notify the administrator. The notified administrator can then take measures, such as reducing the business processing load and using resources more efficiently, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the system.
The features of the SSO programs are as follows.
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Collecting information about various kinds of resources
The JP1/Cm2/SSO programs can monitor server operating information (such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and file system usage), network performance information (such as line usage), and other system resources. Users can also add resources to be monitored as user resources.
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Monitoring of the operating status of processes and services
The operating status of applications can be monitored by monitoring the status of processes and services. The operating status can be monitored in real time by using the Process Monitor window.
The monitor can use threshold values as triggers and can execute a specific action on the monitored server automatically. For example, an incident can be issued when the number of running processes exceeds the preset number.
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Management with NNMi
SSO sends monitoring events as incidents to NNMi. This allows use of the incident view of NNMi to manage of the status of SSO monitoring.
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