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Monitoring Corvil

Corvilnet monitoring with ITRS Geneos

Network monitoring statistics and events within Geneos

Business users can monitor their application’s performance, including nanosecond latency statistics, from multiple perspectives from a single set of standardised dashboards.

Solution

Corvil and Geneos customers can now access the nanosecond network performance data of CorvilNet in conjunction with the holistic application views of Geneos using one screen.  This creates an integrated, real-time monitoring solution capable of meeting the demands of a high-performance trading environment.

Application support teams can monitor the entire application suite from one tool, Geneos, with a standardised escalation mechanism.  The integrated monitoring facilitates cross-referencing of actual application performance as monitored by CorvilNet against internal conditions, such as network, CPU, and memory utilisation.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Integrated monitoring solution: reduce the number of tools that operational staffs are required to monitor, streamlining operations and incident escalation handling and reducing the total cost of application monitoring.

  • Corvil statistics displayed within Geneos dashboards: allow business user-friendly Geneos dashboards to include CorvilNet generated performance statistics and monitoring events alongside Geneos-generated data.

  • Holistic application view: allow application data to be easily cross-referenced with other Geneos-monitored metrics such as CPU and memory utilisation, increasing the depth of monitoring, reducing the time taken to diagnose and correct problems to increase application uptime and contractual service compliance.

How it works

CorvilNet is responsible for the network monitoring “heavy lifting” whilst Geneos is responsible for routing and normalizing key CorvilNet parameters.  By combining the data produced it maximises the return on investment in CorvilNet custom monitoring hardware and the Geneos application monitoring infrastructure.

The CorvilNet Engine (CNE) generated monitoring statistics and network monitoring events may be used as the raw data for Geneos graphs and dashboards, etc. 

The system and network monitoring events will draw the attention of first-line Operations staff to circumstances of interest via Geneos. 

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The CorvilNet adapter normalizes key CNE metrics and events via Corvil's WebService API and translates them into dataviews via Geneos' standard XML-RPC API.

Users can monitor

The CorvilNet plug-in allows network monitoring data generated by CorvilNet Engines (CNE) to be utilised within Geneos and it supports:

  • CNE-generated real time and statistical monitoring parameters;

    • End-to-end real time and statistical venue/client latency

    • Nanosecond latency statistics (minimum, maximum and average)

    • Hourly latency averages per channel/venue

    • Microburst detection with real-time messaging rates

    • Buffer utilization and network adjustment recommendations

  • Network monitoring events generated by the CNE when thresholds are breached;

  • Summary statistics of each configured channel;

  • System events generated by the CNE in response to changes or problems with the CNE itself.

Streamline your monitoring and systems management

The plug-in receives monitoring statistics via the Corvil API and monitoring and system events via Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).  By using this plug-in, the application support teams are completely insulated from the different interfaces, thus simplifying the use of CorvilNet-generated data.

Out-of-the-box configuration files specify the network monitoring views to be displayed on Geneos. These files include features designed to reduce the cost of maintenance and get critical network metrics into Geneos fast.

By default, the plug-in always generates;

  • Two event views; one showing the quality-of-service events and one showing events related to the state of the CNE itself

  • Summaries of each measurement point's clients/channels/venues, simplifying the creation of Geneos dashboards and views that include both statistics and quality-of-service indicators.

Requirements

  • One instance of the plug-in is required per CNE to be monitored.  Systems using Latency Management Centres (LMC) are supported.

  • One CorvilNet Engine (CNE) per instance of the plug-in running (CorvilNet API version 6.1 or later). 

  • Current version(s) of Geneos.

  • Linux (64-bit) or Solaris x86.

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