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PRIMECLUSTER  Installation and Administration Guide4.3

23.1 Functional Overview

Systemwalker Centric Manager is a software product that acts as the integrative infrastructure for the management of an information system. It provides life cycle management of IT resources such as networks, hardware, OS, applications, and users that consist of the system according to the policy based management.

Life cycle management

Systemwalker Centric Manager controls the life cycle of IT resources. It provides an effective operation management by categorizing the IT resources into the following 4 phases:

Deployment

Refers to the phase in which IT resources and transactions are installed on the system and set up. The resources to be used for the information system are deployed and applied.

Monitoring

Refers to the phase in which the performance of IT resources and failures are monitored.

Recovery

Refers to the phase in which corrective action is taken in the event of a failure. Troubleshooting and recovery are performed.

Assessment

Refers to the phase in which the stability of operation is evaluated. The service level is evaluated and analyzed from operation information of IT resources. Performance bottlenecks are detected, and capacity planning is done.

Framework

The "framework" refers to the operation management infrastructure that is used to share information between the functions of the life cycle and to enable seamless functional cooperation. The framework collects the configuration information for the entire information system, such as the network, hardware, OS, applications and others, and maintains the integrated management of the configuration information.