In Resource Orchestrator, monitoring of managed network devices is performed as below.
Alive Monitoring
Regular checks of whether the network devices of monitoring targets are operating.
Status Monitoring
Regular checks of the port statuses of the network devices of monitoring targets.
The statuses may also be checked when receiving SNMP traps from the network devices of monitoring targets.
Using this monitoring, status changes due to network device failures can be discovered at early stage.
The following operations for the target network devices are possible using managed servers.
Opening the web management window
The web management window provided by the target network device can be started.
The window of ServerView Fabric Manager can be started for Converged Fabric by registering ServerView Fabric Manager as Converged Fabric management software.
Backing up and restoration of network device files
Network device files (network device configuration files or network device environment files) for target network devices can be backed up and restored.
Network device environments can be easily recovered by restoring backed-up network device files when replacing network devices.
Switchover of management mode
By switching the "maintenance mode", it is possible to control whether the devices are regarded as targets of monitoring or auto-configuration.
By switching the "auto-configuration targets", whether the devices are regarded as the targets of auto-configuration can be controlled.
Operation
The following operations can be performed for the server load balancers deployed on the logical platform (L-Platform).
Displaying load balancing information
Incorporating and removing load balancing target servers
Figure 5.33 Network Device Monitoring and Operation
