Production Database Administration

Monitoring the production system is a cornerstone to properly manage adequate System & Network Management policies. Using V/MC for the advanced monitoring of your entire Versant Object Database environment provides you with a fundamental tool for all Versant database administration operations.

What's going on under the hood?

Proactive database monitoring prevents potential unexpected production problems. The V/MC delivers real-time views of performance data and analytical information about the Versant Object Database at your fingertips.  For example, V/MC alerts administrators about potential issues before the database availability is affected. Can life get any easier?

V/MC lets you individually monitor and remotely control your entire deployed Versant Object Database environment. And thanks to a finely configurable alert facility, you can proactively take action on potential problems before they become real ones. In fact, Versant's system monitoring is a cornerstone to properly establish adequate System & Network Management (S&NM) policies required in large enterprise deployments. The V/MC also provides remote management capabilities making it a fundamental tool for all database administration tasks.

Multiple Simultaneous Database Monitoring

Designed as an Eclipse-based RCP client, V/MC provides an extensive set of real-time database activities and detailed performance metrics. Data from multiple Versant Object Database systems can be viewed simultaneously. And connecting to many systems at once is easy, because the V/MC dynamically discovers agents and databases with no configuration on your part.

Multiple simultaneous database monitoring
Dynamic discovery of agents and databases, display of database structure and configuration information

The Bigger Picture – In Detail

The V/MC client gives you everything you need to monitor your databases and servers right out of the box:

• Displaying the database structure and configuration information,
• dynamic sampling of physical and logical log volumes,
• dynamic sampling of volumes usage and
• volume fragmentation maps.

You can display dynamic statistics and information on sessions, transactions and locks. And when it comes to individual monitoring requirements you’ll feel right at home with V/MC, as you can customize statistics and logging.

		Individual Monitoring You can easily customize statistics and logging individually.

Extensive Alert Facility

High availability requirements for 24/7 operations and 99.999% up time are becoming increasingly common. The Versant Object Database is a proven database server for these mission critical applications. The V/MC module supports these environments, providing configurable thresholds and event-triggered alarms, as well as configurable alarm logging and notification.

Highly Evolved Management Console and Remote Agent

The V/MC for Versant Object Databases is based upon the OSGi technology standard. The V/MC console is an Eclipse-based (RCP) graphical tool that runs on any platform, independent of a specific Versant Object Database installation. The console presents ongoing activities of the monitored database environment.

The multithreaded remote agent resides on the Versant server system. The SNMP v2 compliant agent allows multiple protocol adapters, and integration as a subagent with standard master agents, as well as SOA-based application design for integration with other system management tools.

V/MC is designed mainly as a tool for monitoring Versant Object Database installations. However, V/MC also provides an extensible framework for additional administrative and management components such as license management, database compaction with Versant Compact and more.

Furthermore, V/MC can keep itself up-to-date. The built-in update mechanism will download and install any improvements or new components as they are introduced.

The V/MC module is available and is integral part of Versant Object Database version 8 or later.

V/MC at a Glance

• Simultaneous monitoring of multiple database servers
• Dynamic discovery of agents, databases, and servers
• Display of database structure and configuration information
• Dynamic sampling of physical and logical log volumes
• Dynamic sampling of volumes usage
• Volume fragmentation maps
• Dynamic statistics on multiple detachable graphs, and information on sessions, transactions and locks
• Customizable statistics and logging
• Dynamic sampling and parsing of LOGFILE messages and alarms triggering
• Configurable threshold and event triggered alarms with acknowledge
• Configurable alarm logging and notification
• Standalone multithreaded agent
• Multiple protocol adapters
• SOA-ready through SNMP v2 compliant agent (MIB II implementation)
• Versant Enterprise MIB implementation
• Versant enterprise specific traps, with configurable resend timeouts
• Multi-protocol dynamic agent announcement and discovery