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Server Management Tools for your Data Center
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Swapnil Arora
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
LANDesk Server Manager
LANDesk Server Manager can constantly monitor all servers on a network and
provide details about servers' health in real time. LANDesk also provides
management capabilities, like remote OS, Patch, and Application deployment. It
can automatically detect all the devices present on the network and sort them
into categories like computers, printers, and infrastructure etc, however to
start monitoring/managing a server, a client agent needs to be installed on
those servers. LANDesk server manager comes with an application called Server
Manager Dashboard which does the real time monitoring of all servers. The
dashboard runs in browser window and displays real time information about each
server's current health status and live graphs. Digging deeper into details it
shows you all real time processes, services running on the system, hard disk
space available, memory used, logs and few other details. LANDesk server manager
also provides real time alerts to the administrators if a problem arises or an
event happens. It can be configured to issue an alert in case of a hardware
failure/change. It can notify users through e-mail or paging. It can also be
configured to send an SNMP trap or to execute some program on the server, which
will show alerts.
Using LANDesk Server Manager
Once the agents are installed, we need to create the monitoring rule-sets to
monitor these servers. For this browse to monitoring, and create a new rule-set
in the same old fashion. Once the rule-set is created, click on it to edit the
details. Here you can choose what things you want to monitor in the server,
i.e., if you want to monitor free space available in a server's hard disk, click
on Drive space, and check Turn on Monitoring for this item and give the time
interval after which you want LANDesk to check for it. You can also configure
the warning and critical threshold for it. Similarly you can create rule-sets
for Memory usage, Services, Drive failure predictions, and various other things.
Once the rule-set is created, click on update and now, to deploy these rules to
the target devices click on Deploy rule-set tab. Choose which Monitoring
rule-set you want to use and click on the deploy button.
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| It scans servers for
vulnerabilities, downloads their patches and automatically patches them |
Software distribution
Now you need to install LANDesk server agents on the servers you want to
monitor. To do this click on Agent configuration, then click on New tab to
create a new agent configuration. A window will pop up, here provide a name for
the configuration, choose Microsoft Windows Server Edition option here and click
on ok. Now you can see the newly created Agent under Agent configuration tab.
Select the Agent and click on Edit to customize its default properties. Here you
can select which agents should be installed on the remote server, i.e., if you
want to perform Vulnerability scanning, Monitoring, Remote control etc, then
choose options according to your needs and click on save changes and click on
Save as File option, to save this agent as an executable package with the
filename same as the configuration name you specified. Now you need to run this
executable file on the remote server. Once executed, this file will install the
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