With the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Citrix XenServer, organizations have added the ability to utilize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure investment to provide comprehensive monitoring for Citrix XenServer based virtualization environments.

The Blue Medora ITM Agent for Citrix XenServer provides ITM administrators and operators the tools necessary needed to monitor each layer of the XenServer virtualization environment from XenServer Pools, the actual XenServer Hypervisors themselves, on down to the Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted on each XenServer host.

By extending ITM monitoring and management to the Citrix XenServer platform, organization are provided a more holistic view of their virtualization environments – increasing the overall performance, utilization, availability of their entire IT infrastructure

With the Blue Medora Agent for Citrix XenServer, you gain the ability to remotely evaluate the following classes of metrics about your Citrix XenServer virtualization environment:

• Hypervisor Availability & CPU / Memory Utilization
• Hypervisor License Expiration
• Hypervisor Uptime
• Hypervisor Network Activity
• Summary statistics about the XenServer Pool (Hosts Up, Host Down, Hosts in Maintenance Mode, VMs Running, VMs Paused, etc)
• Storage Repository (SR) Availabilty and Utilization
• Patch and Update Information
• Virtual Machine (VM) Availability & CPU / Memory Utilization
• VM Network Activity
• XenTools Status (Good, Not Installed, Out-of-Date, Not Running)

Screenshot: Citrix XenServer  Dashboard Workspace as viewed in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)

The Blue Medora Agents for Citrix XenServer has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration.

Blue Medora Agents for Citrix XenServer:

• Takes advantage of ITM's Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) visualization capabilities to include best practices, expert advice, customized workspaces, and historical data gathering.

• Integrates with Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) to provide ITDS-focused historical data collection and analysis.

• Provides the ability to send application-specific events to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) and Netcool OMNIbus for advanced correlation and automation.

• Is validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli.

• Is validated by Citrix as Citrix Ready.