DataSynapse GridServer Monitoring by ClearStone – Features and Benefits

Feature

Benefits
Service-Level Reporting and Analytics
Web-based reporting portal that delivers pre-defined reports to meet the needs of business users (application owners), operational staff (grid/infrastructure management), and architects (overall service design).		  
A single reporting solution that addresses the needs of different users of DataSynapse GridServer as well as the operational staff.
Data Warehouse
Integrated Data Warehouse to store the enriched DataSynapse GridServer information and perform additional report processing through specific database Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) functions.		  
Data store to maintain service trending information and provide structured business reports, and an operational cache for near real-time operations reporting and SLA management. All major databases are supported.
Service Accounting (Chargeback)
Rated usage for the elapsed time of task runs for each service across each grid engine. A rate class is defined as the cost to be applied to the usage of a specific engine or engine group by a service at the task level. CPU hours are rated by engine type. Three engine types and rates are defined:

  • Dedicated Servers
  • Scavenged Servers
  • Harvested Desktops
  
Provides an economic model whereby business groups are incented to share non-dedicated grid resources, subject to being preempted by their own applications. Each engine is “owned” by a specific group, but these resources can be shared when they are free to process task from other applications. The corporate objective is to increase utilization across departmental IT infrastructure while having each department chargeback others for utilizing its available engines.