Problems & Solutions
You’ve just identified an OS bug as a result of an impacting incident. Which other servers in your Datacenter are exposed to the same bug ?
I-Insight will tell you.
Using stored Machine Data I-Insight will check in a programmatic way which servers are exposed to the same bug. This gives the instant benefit of knowing where there is immediate risk across your datacenters.
See the full problem earlier and fix it sooner:
- Environment scans using stored Machine Data can be run at any time and not just ‘out of hours’
- You will be alerted about all servers that are exposed to the identified condition
- I-Insight will test for multiple conditions simultaneously
- Identify servers exposed to multiple conditions, so that e.g. multiple patches will be applied in one maintenance window keeping planned downtime to a minimum
- No access to the remote server is required
- I-Insight will produce work lists for remediation efforts (Critical servers with multiple identified conditions will be suitably prioritised)
It’s Monday morning and you’re on an incident bridge for a critical application that won’t start – if only you could turn the clock back to Friday evening and see the running state of the server.
With our software, you can.
Due to the way we collect Machine Data from the remote server, you can investigate the server in it’s working condition at the point of the last (or any previous) snapshots.
Turn back time and see what happened…
- Run commands as though they are being run against the server at the point of data capture
- The collection of Machine Data is secure and totally configurable
- No new commands can be added to the data collection without 4-eye checks being completed
- Machine Data being captured can be configured specifically for your environment
It’s Sunday afternoon and you’ve performed a major OS upgrade, if only you could wind the clock forward to Monday morning to check whether that critical application would work successfully.
No problem.
Due to the Machine Data we collect from the remote servers we can make sure that critical services and configurations are the same on a Sunday as they were on Friday afternoon. This gives confidence that on Monday morning application services will be able to run without issue.
Giving you the reassurance that your applications will work…
- Checks are configurable and will be based on your environment
- You can use supplied checks as a starting point
- Diagnostics allow the servers current condition and it’s suitability for start of business to be made visible.
- Checks can be run automatically or manually by the System Administrator making the change to a particular server
Have you ever had a piece of change work cause an outage the following day because of a simple misconfiguration?
Now you can check for that.
Due to the Machine Data we collect from the servers we can make sure that any number of configurable server parameters or conditions are the same now as they were before the start of any work, e.g. manually added network routes that don’t persist after a reboot.
Check easily and comprehensively:
- Checks are configurable and will be based on your environment
- You can use a number of checks as a starting point
- Diagnostics allow the servers current condition and it’s suitability for start of business to be made visible.
- Checks can be run automatically or manually by the System Administrator making the change to a particular server
Imagine if you could know up-front that fail over to a DR node will succeed first time without issue.
Now you can check for that.
I-Insight uses innovative techniques to identify production and Disaster Recovery servers in an automated way, this then enables us to make sure that services running on the current production node will failover successfully to the Disaster Recovery node without manual intervention.
See the future, eliminate down-time:
- Failover status can be rolled up to display a datacenters readiness for any Disaster Recovery events
- Disaster Recovery preparation time is greatly reduced as ‘failover’ status is continually being checked
- Disaster Recovery events can be registered within I-Insight
- For Global organisations – multiple Disaster Recovery events can be run at the same time
- No access to the remote server is required
- Risk of manual error is virtually eliminated
Tracking multiple problem and root cause investigations along with vendor cases can be tricky.
Not now.
I-Insight allows you to easily track root cause investigations within a busy operational team, while also tracking and reporting the remediation of the problem within the server estate.
Multiple tracking and reporting functions…
- Automatically check a servers relevancy to a particular condition
- Track the population of the impacted server estate over time
- All similarities between events become evident
- Servers impacted by several conditions will be flagged
- Remediate all known issues on a server in one pass
Get a clear picture on which servers are not being actively used and can therefore be shutdown or put forward for reuse.
Introducing, The Application Discovery Engine.
The Application Discovery Engine enables you to identify applications that are in use within your environment. This Machine Data combined with the Comparison engine allows you to identify servers that are not justifiably idle and tag them for closer inspection
Manage and maximise the efficiency of your estate:
- Identification is done automatically
- The inactive server population can be tracked over time
- No local server access is required
Those are just some of the ways that our software can help protect your business from down-time and increase efficiency. To find out more contact us using one of the methods described on our support page.
