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ITM Agent for Citrix XenServer

Important Note: 2.25.2011 - As part of an expansion of the existing Blue Medora - IBM relationship, the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Citrix  XenServer is now available exclusively from IBM as part of the  IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers product bundle (see Blog post for more details).   The Blue Medora version of the Citrix XenServer agent is no longer available for download, evaluation, or purchase directly from Blue Medora.  Please refer to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers product page for more information on how to obtain and purchase the Citrix XenServer agent.

Gaining Visibility and Control over Dynamic XenServer Environments

With the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Citrix XenServer, organizations have added the ability to utilize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure investment to provide comprehensive monitoring for Citrix XenServer based virtualization environments.

The Blue Medora ITM Agent for Citrix XenServer provides ITM administrators and operators the tools necessary needed to monitor each layer of the XenServer virtualization environment from XenServer Pools, the actual XenServer Hypervisors themselves, on down to the Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted on each XenServer host.

By extending ITM monitoring and management to the Citrix XenServer platform, organization are provided a more holistic view of their virtualization environments – increasing the overall performance, utilization, availability of their entire IT infrastructure

With the Blue Medora Agent for Citrix XenServer, you gain the ability to remotely evaluate the following classes of metrics about your Citrix XenServer virtualization environment:

  • Hypervisor Availability & CPU / Memory Utilization
  • Hypervisor License Expiration
  • Hypervisor Uptime
  • Hypervisor Network Activity
  • Summary statistics about the XenServer Pool (Hosts Up, Host Down, Hosts in Maintenance Mode, VMs Running, VMs Paused, etc)
  • Storage Repository (SR) Availabilty and Utilization
  • Patch and Update Information
  • Virtual Machine (VM) Availability & CPU / Memory Utilization
  • VM Network Activity
  • XenTools Status (Good, Not Installed, Out-of-Date, Not Running)

Citrix XenServer Dashboard Workspace as viewed in the TEP

The Blue Medora Agent for Citrix XenServer has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration.

Blue Medora Agent for Citrix XenServer:

  • Takes advantage of ITM's Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) visualization capabilities to include best practices, expert advice, customized workspaces, and historical data gathering.
  • Integrates with Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) to provide ITDS-focused historical data collection and analysis.
  • Provides the ability to send application-specific events to the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) and Netcool OMNIbus for advanced correlation and automation.
Versions of Citrix XenServer Supported

  • Citrix XenServer 5.6 (All Editions)
  • Citrix XenServer 5.5 (All Editions)

Versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Supported

  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 IF2+
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V.6.2.2+

Operating System Support

  • Windows 2003 Server SE (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server EE (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server (64 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server EE (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
  • Windows Server 2008 SE (32 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 EE (32 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 SE (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 EE (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 Data Center
  • Windows Server 2008 Data Center (64 bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise and Desktop Linux 4 for Intel
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64/EM64T
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for pSeries
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 31-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64/EM64T
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for pSeries
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 31-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for Intel
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 31-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for pSeries
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 31-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for pSeries

Requirement for pre-existing ITM agent

To install any Blue Medora ITM Agent you must have at least one pre-existing IBM published agent installed.  Blue Medora Agents do not include key IBM specific Java",  IBM GSkit, or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring runtime libraries. Installing an IBM-provided agent (normally the OS agent) installs these elements.