CA Spectrum Overiew

CA Spectrum Overview

CA Spectrum is a services and infrastructure management system that monitors the state of managed elements including devices, applications, host systems, and connections. Status information such as fault and performance data from these elements is collected and stored. CA Spectrum constantly analyzes this information to track conditions within the computing infrastructure. If an abnormal condition is detected, it is isolated and you are alerted. CA Spectrum also presents you with possible causes and solutions to the problem.

How CA Spectrum works:

The CA Spectrum design is based on the client/server model. The SpectroSERVER is responsible for collecting, storing, and processing data.

The SpectroSERVER combines an object-oriented database, the object-oriented database contains model types that define how a managed element is represented, and models that represent specific managed elements. Inference handlers provide additional functionality to this system by reacting to events produced by CA Spectrum or managed elements.

The SpectroSERVER also polls managed elements and receives alert information from the computing infrastructure. The SpectroSERVER analyzes and stores this information in the knowledge base, and gives client applications access to this information.

Client application, OneClick, provides the graphical user interface that is used to monitor the network and launch other client applications. The views provided in the OneClick Console contain icons, tables, and graphs that represent the different elements of the network. These graphical components present status information and provide access to management facilities specific to the managed element they represent. All information presented by client applications is retrieved from the SpectroSERVER.

CA SPECTRUM - Benefits:

Comprehensive Cause Analysis providing an end-to-end view from Layer 2 to Layer 7.

• Time Savings of several weeks to several months by fast implementation and easy integration.
• Maximum Scale Integration of all SPECTRUM solutions for a consistent view on all network, system, security and application resources in your IT environment.
• Increased Productivity and Ability to Respond for the IT Team by clearly fighting the causes instead of chasing the symptoms.
• Drastic Reduction of Average Mean Time to Repair - from Hours to Minutes: CA SPECTRUM´s patented root-cause and impact analysis detects the problem, prioritises it based on its impacts and proactively starts remediation activities to quickly restore the service.
• Improvement of Major IT Performance Indicators: Avoids unplanned downtimes and reduces the time between detecting and solving problems.
• Reducing Work Load by "Policy-free" Intelligence and Automation: Thus, the IT team can be assigned to more strategic initiatives and focus on managing the IT technology instead of managing the management system.

·         Integration into a wide Variety of Third-party Products.

SPECTRUM CAPABILITIES

Spectrum monitors the following features for servers

■ Availability

■ Reachability

■ CPU and Memory Utilization

■ Interface Bandwidth Utilization

■ Monitors processes running within the device

■ Gives information about the software's running on the device

■ Root cause of the alarm

■ Monitors File Systems on the device.

Advance Monitoring using CA Sysedge agent.

■ SNMP v1/v2/v3 communications

■ Perl-compatible regular expressions

■ File based configuration

■ Agent-based threshold monitoring

■ Aggregated monitors.

■ Disk Utilization

■ Windows Event Monitor

■ System Process Monitoring.

■ Log Monitoring.

■ Support for Host Resource MIB

■ Exchange Server and Active Directory AIM: Lets you monitor Exchange Server and Active Directory environments on both

Off-premise and on-premise infrastructure. This AIM enables configuration of Exchange Server and Active Directory environments, and monitoring of the key

Performance indicators.

Spectrum monitors the following features for Network Device:

■ Availability

■ Reachability

■ CPU and Memory Utilization

■ Interface Bandwidth Utilization

■ Port Monitoring

■ Root cause of the alarm

■ Ability to take configuration backup for network devices with advanced features

■ Ability to calculate the protocol traffic between two nodes and alarm if traffic exceeds the threshold

SPECTRUM Components

Automated Root Cause Analysis

One of CA Spectrum’s key features is the automatic fault isolation by alarm and event correlation. This feature runs on the object-oriented network model in SPECTRUM and CA's patented inductive modeling technology widely without extensively manageable policies. Thus, alerts are only generated by objects that really went down.

The problem's root causes are clearly displayed and can be solved quickly. The impacts on the network, services and customers are directly displayed as well.

 Integrated Configuration Management

The CA SPECTRUM Network Configuration Manager enables you to integrate fault and configuration management - an important step as changes are a frequent cause for failures. The quick assignment to changes lets you quickly detect and solve the problem.

Integration

By completely integrating CA SPECTRUM into CA eHealth you will profit from a complete fault and performance management workflow. The monitored components will be synchronized automatically between CA SPECTRUM and CA eHealth. 

The performance alerts known from CA eHealth will be integrated into the CA SPECTRUM root cause analysis and business service views. For analyzing eHealth reports can by directly loaded from the SPECTRUM web GUI.
Optional integration features guarantee a seamless integration into help desk systems such as Remedy/BMC ARS or other OSS systems.