Technical Information

An overview of the technical features, devices managed, outputs and administration of the system.

 

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Features Summary

  • Secure ‘out of band’ total Console Management
  • Automated event capture and alert generation using rule-based approach
  • Alerts generated based on conditional/relational event handling
  • Full time-stamped audit trail/ centralised log
  • Integration with high-level management systems (e.g. HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli )
  • Higher level graphical representation

Devices supported

DataStream can monitor and/or manage devices and objects by:

  • Device initiated TCP/IP connection
  • Log File
  • Raw TCP/IP
  • Serial
  • SMTP
  • SNMP Trap
  • SYSLOG
  • Telnet
  • Telnet - using SSL protocol

‘Out of Band' devices supported include:

  • OpenVMS (Alpha and VAX)
  • UNIX (most)
  • Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 - through use of agent software which allows NT to be managed through its RS232/serial or TCP/IP ports
  • Routers and other networking hardware with RS232/serial port management
  • PABX systems with RS232/serial port control or monitoring
  • Environmental Control systems which have RS232/serial port management
  • Any other hardware which can be controlled through a serial port
  • All managed device data is logged to disc

Datastream notification methods

Events are notified to user in real-time via

  • Graphical User Interface
  • Email
  • User defined script
  • Text file to be read by other applications
  • SNMP Trap to third party management tools

Graphical User Interface

  • Native Supported Platform Application
  • Connects to multiple application servers simultaneously
  • Displays of current events
  • Filtering of events based on event fields
  • Review of historical logged data
  • Automatic creation of hierarchical display

DataStream Administration

Administration User interface application

Definition of text patterns which form event by:

  • Simple text strings
  • Regular expressions
  • Wildcard expressions

User access via

  • User/Password
  • Defined systems and system groups based on product group profiles


Automatically clear/raise events after predetermined time

Execute user defined scripts based on
:

  • At a specific time of day
  • At a predetermined interval
  • Occurrence of an event
  • On demand from a user Telnet session

Supported Platforms

  • Windows XP, 2000, Server 2003

Dynamic Failover between servers

Can operate through Firewall

   

 

 

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