A big Hi to the Attendees of the SAMG Customer Forum in March 2012!

Thank you for attending my session on "Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) – Smarter Availability" and rating it to be the BEST amongst all the Engineering sessions. I thoroughly enjoyed presenting this topic to you and it seems from the various feedback comments that you enjoyed my session too.

Attached is a PDF copy of my presentation for your perusal and given below is the link to the Easy IMF Plugin to make a VCS customer agent IMF enabled, that I described during the talk:

            https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/easy-imf-plugin-make-vcs-agent-imf-enabled

I hope this session helped you understand both the black-box workings of the...

Easy IMF plugin to make a VCS agent IMF-enabled
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1) Stop the VCS cluster
   # hastop -all

Note: The steps here are meant for education purposes only and
hence shutdown VCS. You can perform these steps by keeping
VCS online as well. Refer to the VCS Admin guide and
Agent Developer's guide for further details.

2) Let's write a quick VCS agent that starts the script myimf.sh
 
   # mkdir /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/ezimf
   # cd /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/ezimf

   # vi myimf.sh   (enter the following text)
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#!/bin/sh

while [ 1 ]
do
        sleep 60
        /usr/bin/logger -p kern.alert "hello world from myimf.sh"...

VCS 5.1SP1 onwards supports intelligent resource monitoring in addition to poll-based
monitoring. Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) is an extension to the VCS
agent framework. You can enable or disable the intelligent monitoring functionality
of VCS agents as needed.

The benefits of intelligent monitoring over poll-based monitoring are as follows:

• Faster notification of resource state changes.
• Reduction in VCS system utilization which enables VCS to effectively monitor a large number of resources.

Below is the list of VCS agents that support IMF.

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