5.3

12 vFabric Suite
12 Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3
• Single unified dashboard for managing and monitoring performance across all application tiers.
• tc Server plug-in for easier, remote management and monitoring of multiple tc Server instances and applications. See tc Server
Plug-In for Easier Management and Monitoring.
• Spring Insight plug-In for in-depth application monitoring. The plug-in makes it easier to discover whether a problem is
infrastructure or application-related. See Spring Insight Plug-In for In-Depth Application Metrics.
• Centralized plug-in manager that synchronizes Hyperic plug-ins between Hyperic Server and all Hyperic Agents in the
environment, enabling system administrators to easily configure and upgrade agents distributed across hundreds of servers.
• iPad and iPhone support.
• Deeper integration with LDAP that enables the automatic import of existing LDAP user groups to preassign roles to users.
• Auto-discovery across all operating systems that run on vSphere and in disparate run-time environments, from Java to .NET.
• Bridges the gap between virtual and physical: compares guest and host metrics (CPU, memory, disk utilization); relates
physical and virtual performance to individual applications.
• Advanced alerting: role-based, time-based (for geographically dispersed teams), server group-based, and so on. Automated
alert responses and alert escalation processes.
• Ability to resolve a broad range of issues without human intervention, often before end users notice, with automated
remediation that reduces mean time-to-resolution and ensures service level agreement (SLA) compliance.
• Plug-in framework that extends management and monitoring to any environment. Through the framework, Hyperic can
discover, monitor, and control any application or device using a straightforward Java/XML API.
• Scales dependably from the ground up — to more than 1,000 servers and one million metrics per minute with a single Hyperic
Server.
For new feature information, see vFabric Hyperic Release Notes.
tc Server Plug-In for Easier Management and Monitoring
The Hyperic tc Server plug-in enables you to remotely manage vFabric tc Server instances and applications on multiple
computers. Hyperic provides a single console with powerful dashboards through which you can:
• Manage the lifecycle of tc Runtime instances by starting, stopping, and restarting a local or remote instance.
• Manage the lifecycle of a group of tc Runtime instances that are distributed over a network of computers.
• Configure a single instance of tc Runtime. Configuration options include the various port numbers to which the tc Runtime
instance listens, JVM options such as heap size and enabling debugging, default server values for JSPs and static content,
JDBC datasources, various tc Runtime connectors, and so on.
• Deploy a Web application from an accessible file system, either local or remote. You can deploy to a single tc Runtime
instance or to a predefined group of servers.
• Manage the lifecycle of applications deployed to a single tc Runtime instance or group of servers. Application lifecycle
operations include start, stop, redeploy, undeploy, and reload.
Spring Insight Plug-In for Detailed Application Metrics
vFabric Hyperic includes the Spring Insight plug-in. The plug-in enables a Hyperic Agent running on a tc Server instance to auto-
discover web applications running on that instance and to obtain detailed, real-time application health and request metrics. You
can apply alerting on those metrics, as you can with other Hyperic resources and metrics. A new interface view of application