Neuron Management Suite
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Documentation for Halcyon Neuron Management Suite
This page includes documentation for the various components of the Halcyon Neuron Management Suite.

Note: For documentation on add-ons and modules not bundled with this product, please refer to our Products Index page.




Neuron Management Suite
Neuron Management Suite enables organizations to perform monitoring of their hardware and software. It can also be used to leverage their existing Enterprise Management Framework (EMF) to gain visibility into the health, performance, and status of critical business services in addition to the hardware and software components that make up the services.
README
Installation Guide
Configuration Instructions


Neuron Management Server
Neuron Management Server is a lightweight centralized event management framework. It can not only receive inbound events, but also process those events through its rules engine and forward them to popular Enterprise Management Frameworks (EMFs).
User's Guide for Neuron Management Server
User's Guide for Command Line Utilities
User's Guide for Neuron Event Viewer and Event Manager
README for Data Export
README for Event Action Converter
Release Notes


Neuron Event Manager
Neuron Event Manager provides centralized integration of events from multiple sources. Sources include systems management software such as Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Sun Management Center, Nagios, and many others in addition to standard SNMP devices. Incoming events can be viewed using the bundled Neuron Event Viewer or integrated to 3rd party enterprise management frameworks and help desk tools using sophisticated yet easy to create rules with event filters, automated actions and schedules.
User's Guide


Neuron Inventory Manager
Neuron Inventory Manager is a component of the Neuron Management Suite that allows for the viewing and management of specific and/or groups of assets. Through the Neuron Inventory Manager, Users will be able to view the status of assets as well as information about those assets, such as their operating system and version. Managers and Administrators will be able to configure credentials for assets, enable or disable monitoring of the assets as well as deploy Halcyon Neuron Agents to Solaris assets.
User's Guide
Release Notes


Neuron Configuration Manager
Neuron Configuration Manager retrieves configuration data from assets that are managed by the Neuron Management Suite. Through the Neuron Configuration Manager, Users will be able to view configuration metrics and snapshots of managed assets. Managers and Administrators will be able to set thresholds on configuration metrics, create snapshots, and enable or disable configuration metrics. The Neuron Configuration Manager will also create events when the configuration data crosses a threshold.
User's Guide
Release Notes


Neuron Health Manager
Neuron Health Manager retrieves health data from assets that are managed by the Neuron Management Suite. Through the Neuron Health Manager, users will be able to view health metrics and their data associated with a selected asset. Managers and Administrators will be able to set thresholds on the health metrics, as well as enable or disable them. The Neuron Health Manager will also create events when health data crosses the user defined thresholds.
User's Guide
Release Notes


Neuron Performance Manager
Performance Reporting enables IT managers to collect, store, and report on the vital data metrics that make up those business services and assist in optimizing and increasing asset utilization and translating business objectives to IT priorities.

Neuron Performance Manager provides a comprehensive view of the health and performance of datacenter infrastructure useful for utilization monitoring, capacity planning, billing and chargeback. This solution enables customers to collect, store, and graph system and application performance trends to predict future capacity needs and improve service levels of business services.
User's Guide
Release Notes


Neuron Integration for BMC Event Manager
Neuron Integration for BMC Event Manager provides the capability to integrate alarms received by Halcyon Neuron Management Server into BMC Event Manager. This integration can be achieved by sending SNMP traps to BMC Event Manager via BMC PATROL Enterprise Manager Connect SNMP.
Refer to Section 7 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Integration for HP OpenView
Neuron Integration for HP OpenView provides the capability to integrate alarms received by Halcyon Neuron Management Server into either HP OpenView Operations or HP OpenView Network Node Manager.
Refer to Section 8 in the Configuration Instructions
README for Reverse Acknowledgement


Neuron Integration for IBM Tivoli
Neuron Integration for IBM Tivoli provides the capability to integrate events received by Halcyon Neuron Management Server into IBM Tivoli. This integration can be achieved by sending events to the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) server using the Tivoli Communication protocol for endpoints and/or managed nodes.
Refer to Section 5 in the Configuration Instructions
Reverse Acknowledgement


Neuron Integration for IBM Tivoli Netcool
Neuron Integration for IBM Tivoli Netcool provides the capability to integrate alarms received by Halcyon Neuron Management Server into IBM Tivoli Netcool. This integration is achieved by sending SNMP traps to the Netcool Trapd Probe which in turn can be configured to analyze the traps and present them in the Netcool EventList console.
Refer to Section 6 in the Configuration Instructions
Reverse Acknowledgement


Neuron Integration for Sun Management Center
Neuron Integration for Sun Management Center integrates hardware faults and operating system health events from Sun Management Center with popular Enterprise Management Frameworks (EMFs). When combined with the Halcyon Neuron Integration for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center solution, organizations can leverage the Ops Center software to gain visibility into the health of their Sun Management Center monitored environment.
Refer to Section 9 in the Configuration Instructions
Reverse Acknowledgement


Neuron Integration for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Neuron Integration for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center allows customers to leverage their existing Enterprise Management Framework (EMF) to gain visibility into the health, performance, and availability of their Ops Center managed environments.
Refer to Section 4 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Integration for Oracle Grid Engine
Neuron Integration for Oracle Grid Engine allows customers to view Grid Engine Master Hosts, Queues, and Jobs. It also provides the ability to submit new jobs to Oracle Grid Engine.
Refer to Section 10 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Generic Hardware
Neuron Module for Generic Hardware performs fault monitoring of hardware assets that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). It can also monitor a system log file on the host where Halcyon Neuron Management Server is installed.
Refer to Section 11 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Linux
The Halcyon Neuron Module for Linux provides the ability for the Halcyon Neuron Management Server to discover and monitor systems that run the Linux operating system. It scans the Linux system log (/var/log/messages) on which the server is installed for messages that indicate events have occurred.
Refer to Section 12 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Solaris
The Halcyon Neuron Module for Solaris provides the ability for the Halcyon Neuron Management Server to discover and monitor systems that run the Solaris operating system. It scans the Solaris system log (/var/adm/messages) on which the server is installed for messages that indicate events have occurred.
Refer to Section 13 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Solaris Virtualization
The Halcyon Neuron Module for Solaris Virtualization provides the ability for the Halcyon Neuron Management Server to discover and monitor Solaris zones and Oracle VMs for SPARC (LDOMs).
Refer to Section 14 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Windows
The Halcyon Neuron Module for Windows provides the ability for the Halcyon Neuron Management Server to discover and monitor systems that run the Windows operating system.
Refer to Section 15 in the Configuration Instructions


Neuron Module for Cisco
The Halcyon Neuron Module for Cisco provides the ability for the Halcyon Neuron Management Server to discover and monitor Cisco network devices.
Refer to Section 16 in the Configuration Instructions