Sentinel (NonStop Monitoring)

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HPE NonStop systems are known for their high availability, and monitoring helps ensure that systems are up and running 24/7, avoiding downtime and potential loss of revenue.
Sentinel helps improve productivity by saving time on your HPE NonStop management while reducing operating costs.
Customers rely on Sentinel for HPE NonStop to identify and resolve performance issues before they become significant problems, keeping systems running efficiently. Monitoring helps track system utilization and growth, critical for capacity planning and avoiding system overloads.
Your monitoring platform should also provide early warning of potential problems and can help avoid downtime. Monitoring can help ensure compliance with industry regulations and HIPAA. It can provide information to aid debugging software and investigating hardware issues, helping to resolve problems more quickly.
Failure to invest in correct monitoring can lead to serious consequences. It is important to monitor hardware, software and applications regularly to ensure their proper functioning, security, and compliance.

World-class monitoring for mission critical operations

Sentinel for HPE NonStop is a dynamic operations and service management software.
It is designed to provide NonStop operators with monitoring tools that improve reliability and enhance the ability of IT departments to have a greater pulse of their NonStop environment and associated applications.
The architecture is object-based and provides monitoring of systems, networks, hardware, subsystems, processes, files, events and even 3rd party applications.
Sentinel's distinguishing feature is its capacity to condense a large amount of active monitoring into a single collection of screen objects, allowing users to diagnose an issue in more depth and in real time via context-sensitive drill-downscreens.

Sentinel retrieves performance and capacity statistics from NonStop subsystems and processes and analyses them against pre-configured thresholds. If the thresholds are exceeded, then an EMS event is generated. If a value has returned below its threshold, then a different EMS event is generated. These events can be configured as a pair of "up" and "vulnerable" reactions which can be used to animate a Status Monitor icon and force the icon to turn orange (vulnerable) or grey (up).
Sentinel enables you to

Correct faults automatically, using the context of the original EMS event
Escalate alert conditions via a local graphical console or email
Enable legacy applications if they are required to participate in a centralised strategy Identify your EMS event load
Monitor services across multiple nodes

TaskMaster is the automation engine of Sentinel.
Sentinel can react to EMS events that describe error conditions that can be corrected programmatically and without manual intervention. The details of these events will be forwarded to TaskMaster which oversees the execution of the appropriate automated corrective action.
TaskMaster can be used to execute a single or multiple Guardian programs including standard utilities such as DSAP, application programs or TACL scripts. Programs can be run in parallel or serially to cater for different needs.
In addition to corrective action, TaskMaster can be used to automate functionality such as starting or closing applications.
Get peace of mind with automated escalation, automated problem resolution at the source.