The NiCE PowerHA Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM & Azure Monitor SCOM MI is designed to deliver comprehensive monitoring for IBM PowerHA high-availability clusters, which are critical for maintaining IT service level agreements and preventing business losses due to capacity shortages or system failures. This sophisticated and intelligent Enterprise Ready Management Pack integrates seamlessly into Microsoft SCOM, providing alerts on impacted PowerHA components vital to business operations. IBM PowerHA, or High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing, is used for high-availability clusters on AIX, Unix, and Linux for IBM System p platforms. The NiCE Management Pack significantly increases operational efficiency and reduces the total cost of ownership by offering better PowerHA performance monitoring, leading to more performance, availability, and transparency. It helps identify problems faster, increasing the productivity of Operations Manager administrators and operators, and avoiding costly downtime through upfront issue identification and built-in SCOM “Diagnostic Tasks” for efficient troubleshooting. The solution ensures that critical applications are available 24/7 by monitoring numerous IBM PowerHA objects such as Nodes, Resources, Resource groups, and AIX computers, each with their own properties. Its 'out-of-the-box discover' feature allows for the comprehensive discovery of all PowerHA objects and their extensive properties, mapping out a full PowerHA inventory model within the OpsMgr class model. This valuable information is also available with Microsoft System Center Service Manager through integrations. Furthermore, it provides 360-degree end-to-end monitoring for Linux on IBM Power Systems, offering clear performance indicators, a single pane of glass view, timely alerts, pinpoint problem identification, in-depth reporting, and streamlined workflows.

Features & Benefits

• Centralized & Intelligent Monitoring
  • Ensures top response time and availability, reduces costs, saves time, and improves user experience by providing a unified view of PowerHA components.
• Operational Efficiency & TCO Reduction
  • Increases productivity for administrators and operators by identifying issues upfront and integrating with Microsoft SCOM.
• Comprehensive Discovery
  • Automatically discovers all PowerHA objects (Nodes, Resources, Resource groups, AIX computers) and their properties, mapping a full inventory model within OpsMgr.
• Core Monitoring Capabilities
  • HA Performance Monitoring
  • Failover Management
  • Alerting on Critical Components
  • Resource Group Monitoring
  • SLA Alignment
• 360-Degree Linux on IBM Power Monitoring
  • Clear and precise performance indicators
  • Single pane of glass view of your systems
  • Timely alerts
  • Pinpoint problem identification
  • In-depth reporting
  • Streamlined workflow