Unicenter® Beta Programs
Unicenter® Advanced System Management r11.1 Beta Program
CA is pleased to invite you to participate in the Unicenter Advanced System management r11.1 beta program. Unicenter Advanced System Management r11.1 is the first solution that creates a centralized mechanism for the management and dynamic resource brokering of complex data center environments such as clusters and virtualized platforms. It optimizes an organization's IT investments by continuously assessing and self-managing system resources and services, addressing the problems of under- and over-utilization. Built with advanced functionality, Unicenter ASM automatically detects and diagnoses events and reallocates resources to prevent outages and optimize resource utilization.

The following topics are covered in this beta program:

• Advanced Platform Discovery - Discovers and monitors every aspect of the virtual host and sessions.
• Real-time Monitoring and Representation - Represents host server and VM instances as they exist in a real-world environment.
• Dynamic Resource Allocation - Analyzes resources in real-time while continuously balancing system utilization.
• VM Cloning - Moves VMs between local and remote host machines.
• Policy Driven Session Migration - Migrates less critical VMs automatically based on business policies and priorities.
• Advanced Platform Discovery - Discovers cluster platforms and technologies otherwise concealed from traditional enterprise systems management solutions.
• Selective Monitoring - Provides automated real-time status/health monitoring of software, nodes and package resource groups as well as individual resources.
• Desired States - Defines the "desired state" for all monitored elements, enabling alterable statuses to be configured at the object level.
• Rule-Based Resource Management - Creates rules, based on definable resource groups which can define the failover time and day, or when to move a process from one resource to another.
  
  To register for this beta program, select the CA Beta Programs image from the SupportConnect^SM website.

High Availablility Support for UNIX Agents
The Unicenter® NSM r11 release includes support for high availability services to support fault tolerant functionality while running in a cluster environment. Current commercial cluster platform support includes the following:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4; Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition; Linux Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0; Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0; Linux Red Hat Cluster 2.1.

Several other solutions are currently in final testing. These include Sun Solaris (SPARC) Cluster 3.0, 3.0 12/01, or 3.0 05/02; Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 for Sun Solaris 8, 9; HP-UX (PA Risc) MC ServiceGuard 11.x; HACMP 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. For Linux and UNIX clusters, only System and Log agents support high availability.

We are currently looking for customers to help us test the UNIX high availability components. If you are interested in participating, complete the Beta Program Registration Form located at CA's Enhanced Beta Program website.

Unicenter® Performance Management for OpenVMS I64 r3 (Itanium)
Unicenter Performance Management for OpenVMS I64 r3 (Itanium) is now entering beta. You can sign up for the beta program or find more information about this solution on CA's Enhanced Beta Program website.

Unicenter Performance Management for OpenVMS I64 automatically collects and analyzes OpenVMS I64 performance data, providing you with knowledge-based expert tuning advice, real-time monitoring, and historical graphs and reports. It helps you identify potential performance problems and take remedial action before the problems adversely impact your business. Highlights of this release include the following features:

• Real-time monitoring of OpenVMS I64 performance metrics such as CPU utilization, disk I/O per second, hard fault rate, direct I/O, and so on.
• Expert performance tuning advice using a knowledge base of tuning rules.
• Historical performance analysis reports, graphs, and charts analyzing the collected data.
• Integration with Unicenter® Network and Systems Management System Performance Trend.

This new release also includes:

• Enhanced data collection for HP Integrity servers
• New and enhanced performance tuning rules
• Reports and graphs
• Data collection and analysis of OpenVMS eXtended File Cache (XFC)
• Support for a large number of disks (up to 4000 disks)
• Mixed architecture cluster support
• Ability to analyze HP Integrity, Alpha, and VAX servers from a single Performance Advisor

Unicenter® Network and Systems Management System Monitoring Option for OpenVMS I64 r3.1 (Itanium)
Unicenter Network and Systems Management System Monitoring Option for OpenVMS I64 contains a System Agent and a Log Agent for OpenVMS I64. It helps Unicenter NSM discover, monitor, and display the health and availability of critical Itanium-based HP Integrity servers running OpenVMS I64 and application log files residing on those systems. Its features include the following:

• Automatic discovery of OpenVMS I64 systems in your enterprise, enabling you to view them in an automatically created Business Process View (BPV)
• Monitoring the status and performance of OpenVMS I64 System resources, log files, and log file entries
• Generation of policy-based alerts based on user-defined thresholds, enabling you to consolidate events from OpenVMS I64 systems-along with those from heterogeneous platforms-correlate them, and take necessary action
• Monitoring the HP Integrity servers in homogeneous as well as in mixed architecture OpenVMS clusters

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