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Solution Brief

Centerity™ Monitor, the first SAP HANA predictive BSM platform used with Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®), provides enter-prises with end-to-end BSM views of all critical SAP business services within the SAP HANA Technology Stack.

Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS is the first data center platform that integrates industry-standard x86-architecture Cisco® servers

with networking and storage access into a single converged, computing, networking, and storage system.

Cisco UCS Manager provides a single point of management for each Cisco UCS domain of up to 160 servers

and associated infrastructure. Using a policy-based approach to server provisioning based on service profile

templates, Cisco UCS Manager is used by administrators to quickly reproduce existing physical configurations,

including I/O, firmware, and settings. A role-based access control (RBAC) model helps ensure the security of

system configurations.

Cisco Unified Computing System™ with Centerity’s Unified Business Service Management (BSM) Solution provides an End-to-End Monitoring Platform for Cisco Managed and Cloud Services.

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Centerity Monitor Platform for Cisco UCS and Network Environment

Centerity Monitor integrates with Cisco UCS Central Software and Cisco UCS Manager instances providing

an end-to-end, single-pane-of-glass, holistic view of complex Cisco UCS environments, tracking the entire

environment from the physical, network and application layers to virtual and cloud assets providing real-time

system health views and live statuses of key business processes with drill-down capabilities for rapid root cause

analysis. Centerity Monitor provides automated scheduling for SLA/OLA compliance reporting and proactive

alerting on the entire SAP business environment including SAP HANA, SAP R3 and other applications supporting

tailored Executive and Operator dashboards.

Centerity Monitor gathers information from Cisco UCS Central Software which aggregates data from multiple

Cisco UCS Manager instances tracking status data from the chassis, blade, FEX, fan, power supply and more

which are continuously correlated with SAP HANA KPIs, applications KPIs (SAP ERP), operating systems

performance KPIs (SUSE Enterprise Linux), network status (Cisco Nexus) and storage status (EMC, NetApp, HDS,

etc.) to provide a complete executive business service view as presented below.

Figure 1: View of the SAP HANA Technology Stack.

Application LayerSAP, HANA, ERP

Operating System LayerLinux, UNIX, etc.

Compute LayerCisco UCS

Network LayerCisco Nexus/Catalyst

Storage LayerNetApp, EMC, HDS, etc.

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Figure 2: Top: View of Centerity’s Executive Dashboard with SAP HANA ERP, SAP HANA Distributed Landscape and SUSE Linux Load Average highlighted. Middle Top: Centerity Dashboard with Cisco UCS Metrics highlighted. Middle Bottom: Drilled-down view of the SAP HANA ERP Business Service with the SAP ERP and SAP HANA layers opened to reveal individual KPIs being monitored. Bottom: Time graph of SAP CCMS Enqueue Request KPIs.

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For enterprises and service providers, Centerity Monitor helps accelerate the rapid rollout

of new managed services. Centerity provides automatic VMware topology discovery,

intuitive Business Service Management (BSM) view creation, comprehensive inventory

discovery via proxy agent and proxy network discovery, automatic discovery with KPI

assignment, dynamic drill-down root cause analysis, advanced ticketing management,

CMDB and enhanced real-time layouts and mapping.

Figure 3: Centerity Functional Overview

For More Information

• Cisco Unified Computing System: http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

• Cisco UCS Central Software: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12502/index.html

• Centerity Monitor Unified Monitoring Platform: http://www.centerity.com

• Centerity Monitor for MSP Solutions: http://www.centerity.com/msp.php

• Centerity Monitor for SAP HANA Solutions: http://www.centerity.com/sap-hana-db.php

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Americas HeadquartersCisco Systems, Inc.San Jose, CA

Asia Pacific HeadquartersCisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd.Singapore

Europe HeadquartersCisco Systems International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices.

• Cisco UCS with Centerity’s Unified Monitoring Platform provides an End-to-End Monitoring Solution with real-time BSM views of critical business processes for Cisco Managed and Cloud Services.

• Cisco UCS and Centerity Monitor can be rapidly deployed in complex hybrid environments throughout all information system layers (physical, virtual, application and cloud) creating an extremely short Time-to-Value.

• Centerity Monitor can be rapidly deployed with new and emerging technologies such as SAP HANA, Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL and others so that enterprise-class and carrier-class organizations can maintain a holistic view of its entire environment via a single-pane-of-glass.

Highlights