Monitoring Solace systems using Geneos
Overview Copied
Solace Systems provide middleware appliances that allow financial institutions to simplify their software-based messaging architectures and considerably increase the performance and capacity of their systems
Key Information Copied
Real-time visibility and management of Solace Routers The Geneos Solace plug-in provides comprehensive monitoring of Solace-based middleware infrastructures, giving a real-time view of performance by business line or application, including the underlying message traffic being routed by Solace. Developed in conjunction with Solace, it allows real-time metrics from Solace routers to be combined with monitoring of other system and infrastructure elements. Multiple geographically dispersed Solace routers can be monitored and managed from a central location, through the deployment of the Solace plug-in to any number of appliances.
The plug-in provides visibility of;
- The status and health of the router hardware
- Client message rates (send and receive)
- ADB spool usage
- Message VPN configuration
- Persistent message queue and topic endpoint configuration
- Routing of neighbour links
From high-level views of the system, operators can quickly drill down to detailed real-time resource and health metrics for individual Solace appliances and take corrective action from within a single management environment.
Benefits to people in your organisation
Business
- A consistent enterprise management framework enabling operations teams to increase their span of control to include Solace appliances
- Real-time information that permits operations teams and business management to build an overall real-time view of performance by business line or application
- A full history of monitored events, detailing performance changes and usage characteristics, allowing review of current operations against underlying system capacity limits, with the ability to adjust operating parameters accordingly
Developers
- Provide oversight over time of persistent queue and topic endpoint usage
- Improve application performance by providing access to historical and real time data on message throughput using appliance-based middleware
- Model performance changes and failover situations as technical infrastructure is consolidated onto a shared middleware appliance infrastructure
- Gain the same view of the middleware message and content router infrastructure that the operations team see if they are called to assist
Operational staff
- Understand how a whole system or service that includes Solace Systems routers is performing on an end-to-end basis
- Easily drill down into detailed metrics on the health and status of Solace routers
- Initiate commands or launch scripts to control the Solace routers from the same single environment they use for other system management activities, eliminating the need for operators to learn multiple tools
- Have access to the same data the developers would view if they were called in to fault find
Quick facts
- Monitors usage over time against engineered capacity limits
- Provides real-time alerts in the event of router hardware component failures, changes in redundancy status, or routing link failures
- Enables multiple, geographically dispersed Solace routers to be monitored and managed from a central location
- Small software footprint means minimal impact on system performance
- Alerts based on user-defined rules sent to operators through email, SMS and other routes to initiate remedial action
- Logs events and key metrics to a central data base for further analysis and export to other visualisation and analysis applications
- Enables pre-configured, colour-coded, high level graphical views of the monitored Solace routers to be created, from which users can drill down to the underlying detail
- Allows both physical and logical views of the environment to be created, enabling visibility of service health to be easily shared with wider audiences through web-based business function dashboards
Solace Geneos Agent Copied
Solace Geneos Agent is a Solace component which generates PubSub+ broker specific information for the ITRS Geneos Enterprise Management product. This agent represents one component of the Geneos Enterprise Management Solution.
For more information about Solace Geneos Agent please go to https://docs.solace.com/Additional-Products/SolGeneos-Agent/SolGeneos-Overview.htm
Geneos Netprobe Compatibility Copied
Only the netprobe version 5.1.0-x64 is the available package certified for deployment on Solace systems.
The netprobe is available from our downloads portal: https://resources.itrsgroup.com/downloads.
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