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Jim Corrigan corrigan@KiNETWORKS.com
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:14:42 -0800 (PST)
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Attention: Conserver Users with under 150 consoles to manager
Deploy CLIM at No Charge.
CLIM Provides the ability to:
- access and manage your Consoles
- monitor and maintain the Terminal Servers and their configuration
- monitor your UNIX, OpenVMS and NT CPU, Memory, Disk and
Process Resources
- monitor Application Availability
- monitor any console, system or application log file
Conserver users deploy CLIM and NodeMonitor
services and provide feedback on how to improve CLIM.
KI NETWORKS provides perm licenses and ongoing support.
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OPEN INVITATION to CONSERVER Developers:
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We offer an open invitation to Bryan Stansell, Kevin Braunsdorf
and Tom Fine to deploy CLIM at their sites and provide feedback
on how to make CLIM a better console manager and work with us to
advance CLIM as a Unifying Universal Console Access solution.
GOAL: Unifying Console Access
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Ki NETWORKS goal is to provide a Unified and Universal Console
Access solution. We believe with the input of those current
conserver users we can more readily achieve this goal.
What Conserver Users GET:
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To the conserver users we will provide perm licenses
for using CLIM and providing Ki NETWORKS with input
as to how to further improve it.
We realize that many conserver users can not afford CLIM, but
can provide valuable feedback to improve CLIM. We want your
inputs and want to see you have access to the best possible
Console Access available.
CLIM is a Commercial Product Used by Large Multinational Corporations
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CLIM is used primarily by large multinational corporations and
sold at a very reasonable price. We will continue to sell
CLIM to large corporations that require a commercial grade product that
is fully supported and take their inputs to make CLIM a better
product.
We want to enlist the users of conserver and get them to
deploy CLIM and replace their versions of conserver. We will not
charge conserver users who provide feedback and participate
in this product upgrade. All we ask is that you deploy CLIM and
provide feedback on what additional enhancements that conserver
users would like to see.
CLIM Functionality
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CLIM is a commercial product that provides extensive
management facilities including
console management
easy to install and deploy
dynamically add consoles w/o having to cycle Service daemons
multiple read/write access
exclusive access that makes all read/write access read-only,
connect to all consoles with a single window ( gang connect )
multiple access methods that are all logged to unique log
files including telnet and SSH sessions ( 2nd QTR 2002 )
and operator console ( need to load KOP Service on remote system )
auto-archiving of unique console logs
support for SSH v2 and access to terminal servers that have SSH v2
deployed, i.e., cyclades, lantronix and cisco ( v1 - version 1
support by 2nd QTR 2002)
tightvnc access to windows from UNIX using tightvnc and UNIX Window
manager and connection via Browser using port 5801 and above.
CPU Efficient console log scanning
auto configures terminal server ports and locks them down.
Supports three power managers that have serial lines including
APC and Server Technology
Console inputs and outputs can be scan real-time as they occur,
for up to five patterns as they occur as well as boot
prompts are reported immediately when found
a filter daemon will be released that will allow for significantly
advanced pattern searches in the most CPU efficient manner.
Terminal/Access Server Management
Monitors, Maintains and Manages Terminal/Access Servers'
configuration of their serial ports.
Monitors, Maintains and Manages Terminal/Access Servers'
configuration of console ports controlled by CLIM. This
capability means that if the terminal server port goes
unavailable then you will know prior to accessing the
port.
Log File Monitoring
a highly CPU efficient, beats Perle Scripts scanning, and
scan of console logs. Pattern recognition is
specified by regular expressions.
A filter daemon will be released in two weeks
that will allow for significantly advanced pattern searches
of console logs, system logs and application log files
in the most CPU efficient manner.
If you distribute CLIM's NodeMonitor Services to each
system under Console Management any log file on
that system can be monitored including UNIX
messages file or any NT event file or OpenVMS
Operator Log file.
Any log files patterns found are forwarded:
to our Event manager
as an SNMP trap
to BMC Software, Tivoli or OpenView event managers.
As many lines before and after a found pattern can be
specified by the user to be forwarded with
the found pattern.
The log file contents can be filtered as it is viewed
by patterns or time intervals. The filtered log file can
be printed or emailed or displayed via web.
Event Manager
Pattern finds, System Resource and Application
Availability Monitoring or mealtime high priority
console scans are received by the Event Manager.
The events found can be reported as they
are found or an event can be generated after
a number of events come in within a specified
period of time.
Actions associated with an event can be generated
depending on the time of day. UP to 5 times of
days can be specified
Actions can be limited to occur a specified number of times
with a given duration of time, e.g. one action
per 1 hour or 30 minutes.
System Resource, Application Availability Monitoring
and Operations Console
Those systems connected to CLIM via an access server
can easily and quickly deploy system resource and application
monitoring.
NODEMONITOR Services include Log File Manager,
Event Manager, KIOperations ( KOP ) Services and our
directory server KiDS.
CPU, Memory, Disk and Page/Swap file are monitored.
Resource utilization that exceeds the thresholds set automatically
or specified by the user has an event generated.
If a monitored application executable ( multiple instances
are found of same process name ) exits user can stipulate
restart script. An event is generated and a popup is sent to
any CLIM Ki Works. OpenVMS applications PID is reported in
HEX.
A script is run to set up a CLIM UNIX server as a
Distribution Server. The Distribution Server is
populated from our ftp site with the required binaries.
The systems connected to and under control of CLIM will be
updated with the NODEMONITOR Services via another script.
From CLIM the user will be able to gain access
to a UNIX X server via X display or
WebBrowser port 5801. The browser must support Java.
NODEMONITOR Services will need to be installed on
the UNIX system.
Access to NT and Win2k WinVNC servers will also be allowed
via X and broswer and will be more efficient
under tightvnc binaries.
AutoFailover to upto Three Redundant Systems
A CLIM BFD Service named for the buford ( Backup failover daemon )
allows for upto two other CLIM Servers to be specified as backup
systems. In the USA South buford is a good ole boy who is
someone you can count on.
If the primary system exits the first backup system takes
over, if the first backup system fails the second backup
system takes over. The BFD Services coordinate the failover
sequence between three CLIM servers.
If at any time the first backup or primary system come back
online the first or second backup system will relinquish
control to the primary.
Detected failures include Service Daemon failure,
network failure, power failure or system crash.
Failover can also be initiated via
the command line using bfdcp command fail init and
terminated via the fail term commands.
Setup is as simple as bfdcp add backup node <name of climserver>
All redundancy is automatically setup. The event, log file
and console databases are propagated. If a change occurs in any
of the primary system's Services the backup systems are automatically
updated as well.
Jim Corrigan
President/CEO
voice: +919 481 2111 x 22
fax: +919 468 5797
mobile: +919 349-8767
URL: http://www.KiNETWORKS.com
email: Jim.Corrigan@KiNETWORKS.com
SnailMail:
Ki NETWORKS, Inc
102 New Edition Court
Cary, NC 27511
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