panagenda GreenLight – Server Optimization
panagenda GreenLight has everything you need to give you valuable insights into your server landscape. Not only doe it make your everyday monitoring and reporting life easier - it facilitates true server and cost optimization by presenting the information needed to take the right decisions - ahead of time.
- Easy setup with near zero maintenance effort requirements
- Live monitoring dashboard in tabled format and as dynamic topology map
- Deep dive into data along various dimensions
- Enterprise scalable data collection
- Built-in reporting environment – no need to have a PhD in Excel or do frustrating data collection and transformation
- Historic data is available anytime for indepth reporting and incident analysis
- Export reports as image and PDF – the collected data is never converted into „just images” but always at your fingertips
- Flexible Alertin
GreenLight Features
panagenda GreenLight has everything you need to have both an instant overview over (not just) your Domino network and gain detailed insight into its historic performance: GreenLight offers a variety of sensors to not only scan your IBM Lotus Domino environment, such as (abstract):
- IBM Lotus Domino - availability, latency, cluster details, statistics
- Domino statistics can include as many as 2,500 (unlimited in fact) detailed values
- Universal Port Probes
- to scan responsiveness of any service on any machine accessible through TCP/IP, such as
- HTTP on any port of choice, including SSL
- SMTP
- IMAP
- POP3
- LDAP
- ports are freely configurable
- IBM Sametime
- Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES, SQL database, srp connection, ...)
The data is collected on an ongoing basis into a SQL database. The powerful and easy-to-use reporting features of panagenda GreenLight allow you to create great looking (if not jaw dropping - thanks to Adobe Flex) reports without a PhD in Excel.
The combination of a SQL repository and intuitive reporting environment is one of the most powerful features of GreenLight: whenever you need to investigate an incident further, you can simply dive deep into your collected performance data. If you have ever tried to zoom into a static image - which is what most other monitoring products are limited to as they only store a limited set of performance snapshots as images on a regular basis - it becomes clear how advantageous it is to be able to have your historic performance data right at your fingertips.
In addition, panagenda GreenLight includes flexible alerting to make sure you can focus on your work whilst GreenLight investigates the collected data and alerts you automatically of when your network needs your attention.
GreenLight Monitoring
GreenLight's monitoring dashboard allows you to overview your infrastructure in two different formats:
The tabled format displays the devices you monitor in a "view-like-style", with draggable columns that can be clicked on to control the tables' sorting.
By default, the list of servers is sorted by the (overall) status column (first column in displayed figure), which shows whether the server has no problems, minor problems, severe problems or is currently not being monitored at all.
When hovering over the individual sensor status indicators, the dashboard displays detailed information. For e.g. the Lotus Notes Domino monitoring sensor, it shows current Domino server availabilty, last response time, historic minimum and maximum response times, as well the Domino server's task details - the information displayed depends on which sensor you hover over.
Correlation of actual performance data with historic information is one of GreenLights' key features: the information about e.g. the historic maximum, minimum and average for a particular statistic allows an administrator to instantly tell whether a particular value is actually low or high, bad or good.
In addition to the tabled monitoring dashboard, you can also freely navigate and investigate your environment via a dynamic topology map.
The topology map allows you to add any combination of Notes/Domino specific details to the map, such as Connection documents, Certifiers, Domains, Notes Named Networks (NNN) and Domino clusters. This allows for an instant overview on how your certifiers, domains, notes named networks, connection documents and/or clusters affect your infrastructure.
You can even "fulltext-search" your environment for specific servers, domains, certifiers, etc., and the topology map, of course, also shows the overall status for each server.
GreenLight Reporting
Creating reports with panagenda GreenLight is both easy and powerful:
- Report on any combination of statistics across one or multiple servers
- Reports include a time-slider (see middle section of figure below).
- Charts (=reports) can be customized easily to e.g. show straight, curved or stepped lines, or areas, as well as adjust colors and the thickness of lines.
- Charts can be exported as images and PDF files.
- Reports can be saved and shared with other users, as well as copied from existing reports.
- Greenlight's visualization engine makes sure that all data is comparable, even if selected statistics have different scales - otherwise 100% CPU usage would be insignificant compared to 2,000,000,000 Bytes of free memory, for example.
- Hovering over the chart displays details for each data point.
- The timeslider allows you to freely navigate through time, as well as increase or decrease the time slice displayed above the slider (zoom in / zoom out) - to e.g. look at one particular day or hour in a week.
GreenLight Architecture
The following figure shows an overview of panagenda GreenLights' architecture:
- the blue part shows an example of data sources GreenLight can connect to.
Neither statrep nor any other Domino server task is required to unleash GreenLights' full potential - also, GreenLight can connect to a rich variety of data sources, such as Notes databases, views and documents, attachments, HTML, XML, csv files, SQL data, and more.
For Domino server monitoring, GreenLight does not require an admin ID or console access rights, but only a simple user ID with read access to the Domino servers you want to monitor.
- the yellow part shows the architecture of the ready-made VMWare;
panagenda GreenLight is not a "hardcoded, LotusScripted Domino monitoring product" but built on an entire middle-ware architecture; new sensors and data collectors can be added easily, to e.g. extend GreenLight for new requirements.
All the components inside the VMWare image are pre-configured and do not require any further licensing (except for one Notes client license for the ID file you supply to GreenLight) - so you're virtually up and running in an instant.
- the green part shows access to GreenLight from the full-fledged Admin user interface - GreenLight can be accessed from any web browser. For the full functionality, GreenLight requires nothing more than just Adobe Flash Player 9.
GreenLight Quick Specs
Quick specs for panagenda GreenLight:
- Central monitoring software appliance as a readymade VMWare image
- Near zero configuration and maintenance effort requirements - up and running in 20 minutes
- Monitor any Domino server (independent of operating system)
- Nothing needs to be installed on Domino servers or any other monitored device
- Monitor any device through TCP/UDP port probing
- Collects all monitoring data into a SQL database; readymade, with no installation, configuration or maintenance requirements, and without the scalability issues a Notes database comes with regarding mass data storage and reporting
- Accessible from any web browser (full fledged interface only requires Adobe Flash Player 9)
- Report on any combination of statistics across multiple of servers without a PhD in Excel
- Data Transformation filters, such as the ascending value filter, multiply with, and divide by, ensure easy customization of reports
- Greenlight's visualization engine makes sure that all data is comparable, even if selected statistics have different scales - otherwise 100% CPU usage would be insignificant compared to 2,000,000,0000 Bytes of free memory, for example.
All you need is:
- a workstation or server with VMWare player, workstation or server to run GreenLight on.
- an IBM Lotus Notes user ID with reader access to the servers you want to monitor (public names- and addressbook) - for a more detailed historic analysis, reader access to the following databases may be required, too: log.nsf, statrep.nsf and events.nsf;
- Statrep logging, however, is not required to unleash the full potential of panagenda GreenLight - GreenLight does not require any particular Domino server tasks
- a Domino "start server" from which panagenda GreenLight auto-discovers your entire network and configures itself automatically