Surveillance RS™: Rep Server Monitoring Features

Surveillance RS™ monitors, reports, and alerts for key performance and utilization metrics providing a turnkey monitoring solution for your Sybase Replication Server environment.

In addition to the Surveillance standard features set (listed below), the following are specific features provided for Sybase Replication Server:

 

Standard Features

  • Monitor unlimited servers through its distributed agent architecture
  • Real-time, proactive monitoring, event-driven alerting and task dispatching
  • "Flashback" to the recent past and diagnose data to determine the root cause of an outage.
  • Allow DBAs to share information between the various agents, minimizing data retrieval and overhead while maximizing efficiency on complex networks.
  • Customizable client user interface that increases a DBA's effectiveness to view only the information they need to see.
  • Easy integration of Surveillance alerts with existing network console systems, such as Tivoli or OpenView.
  • Easy integration of existing SQL scripts into Surveillance, through the user-defined collection (UDC) capability.
  • Produce high quality reports from the Surveillance Centralized Repository Database, and generate numerous pre-defined reports for each monitored platform.

Key Features/Benefits for Sybase Replication Server

  • Using out-of-the-box collections, Surveillance RS provides useful information on Replication Server Health, Replication Server Statistics, Replication Server Configuration, Receive Alerts and Alarms that warn of potential problems
  • Ensure availability and performance for all components of a Replication Server environment
  • Analyze the Replication Server errorlog and alert DBAs to critical errors
  • Monitor replication transaction activity
  • Monitor the replication partition space and alert you before it fills to capacity
  • Get alerts on exception transactions so that they can be resolved in a timely fashion, keeping the databases in sync.
  • Measure replication latency and throughput