ClearCube Blade Manager 4.0
Overview and Demonstration
Rev. 11-09-04
Overview
Blade Manager provides basic systems
management that is easy to use and easy to
implement.
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Key Features and Benefits
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Key Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Monitors key parameters such as
Receive alerts on potential Blade health
processor temperature, hard disk
issues and respond before they turn
space, fan speed, and power
into major problems.
supply voltage.
Email alerts let an administrator
know immediately if there is a
potential issue and SNMP
capabilities allow alerts to be
integrated with a separate console.
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Key Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Remotely view asset and health Perform basic systems management
information on any Blade.
operations without leaving your desk.
Network
Manage your Blades remotely
from anywhere through the
network.
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Key Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
List your hardware and software
asset inventory.
80GB HDD
Keep track of the hardware
components and installed software
on user Blades.
3.4 GHz P4
Acrobat
Java
MS Office
1 GB Memory Slot 1 DIMM
Keep track of both hardware and
software components.
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Software Demonstration
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First, log into Blade Manager.
Then click Submit to log in.
You may authenticate with local
or domain credentials.
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To view information about local
disk drives, click Drives.
Toitem
viewoninformation
about the operating
Click on any
the left to view
After logging in to Blade Manager
system,
running
processes,
or
environment
detailed information on system
you will see basic system
variables,
click
on
Operating
System.
assets.
information for the local machine.
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You can click on Installed Applications
to view all applications installed on a
user’s machine.
This helps you control the applications
installed in your business environment.
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If you are logged in using domain
credentials, you may browse other
machines running Blade Manager by
entering the system name here.
Before clicking Connect, you are
viewing the localhost information.
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After clicking Connect, you will now see
the hostname of the remote machine
instead of ‘localhost’ in the left tree, and
you will then be viewing information for
that remote host.
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To create a new alert, click
Notification, then click Add Alerts.
Blade Manager allows the Administrator
to configure email alerts and SNMP
alerts. The Administrator determines
what triggers these alerts.
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In this case we will choose to send an
To create an alert for the local machine,
alert if a particular application is
first choose the Sensor.
detected on the local machine.
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Next, choose the evaluation criteria. In
this case, we will choose a substring to
match against an application name.
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Next, verify
enter the
you wish to
Then
thatsubstring
the Administrator’s
Thenisclick
Add. applications.
compare
against
installed
email
address
correct.
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youallcan
seethat
the have
alert we
just
To view
alerts
been
added.
created for the local machine, click
Alerts.
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Example Application
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To preempt this problem, the help
User
AA
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experienced a problem
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issue is resolved.
blowing.
sluggish response.
Proactive Systems Management
User A
Data Center
Help Desk
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Proactive Systems Management
Data Center
The Help Desk then uses
Switch Manager to remotely
switch User A to the allocated
Spare Blade (red).
User A
Help Desk
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Proactive Systems Management
The Help Desk can then take
corrective action on the blade or
shut it down and replace it.
User A
Data Center
Help Desk
Throughout the whole process,
the user continues to work off
the spare Blade.
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Proactive Systems Management
Once User A’s original Blade is repaired
or replaced, the administrator can switch
the user back, making the spare
available again.
User A
Data Center
Help Desk
User data and settings are
preserved during the sparing
process by using either roaming
profiles or ClearCube Data
Failover.
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Proactive Systems Management
User A
Data Center
Help Desk
With Blade Manager’s
proactive alerts and
ClearCube’s spare
switching technology, a
faulty fan results in a total
user downtime of:
Less than 5 minutes
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For more information contact
ClearCube at 1-866-652-3500