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Overview

What is Redpeaks Cockpit ?

  • Redpeaks cockpit is a monitoring and integration solution primarily focused on SAP technologies and the associated databases and environments
  • Its purpose is to monitor the health and performance of these applications to ensure the highest quality of service and facilitate operations and maintenance.
  • We named it Cockpit because it will provide visibility and control over large and complex environments, via various applications such as Alarm console, Overview cockpit or Dashboards
  • Redpeaks cockpit works with Collectors which are dedicated to specific technologies, such as SAP.


Main features

  • Applications: Redpeaks cockpit can be seen as an application platform. Each application will help to manage device landscapes
    • Cockpit overview: Visualize your entire landscape in a single page
    • Alarm console: Manage all the problems detected on the devices
    • Inventory: Manage all you device properties and connectivity
    • Device dashboard: In depth visibility of a particular dashboard.
    • More applications will appear as we go.
  • Monitoring:
    • A whole section is dedicated to the definition and control of the monitored environments
    • This is where you will define the structure of the environment and the connection parameters
    • You will also define and control how those environments will be monitored
    • Predefined monitoring profiles are available for each type of system
  • Administration
    • Manage teams and users: Users can be grouped by teams to facilitate the control over what a user can see and do
    • Manage authorization profiles allowings to finely control which applications a user can use and which devices he can control.
    • Business rules: Create rules to define actions based on some incoming events
    • Plugins: Easily connect Redpeaks cockpit with external third parties
    • Monitoring library: A preconfigured set of monitors based on monitoring best practices and designed to be efficient and simple to use.
    • Collectors: Agents that remotely connect to the systems, collect, analyze data and generate monitoring information such as alarms, metrics and reports.


Monitored technologies

Redpeaks cockpit is a generic platform that can cope with any kind of devices.
The provided SAP collector can monitor the following applications:

  • SAP NetWeaver ABAP/Java
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP Business Objects
  • SAP ASE database (Sybase ASE)
  • Oracle database
  • MSSQL database

Architecture

  • The Redpeaks cockpit application relies on the following components:
    • A central instance hosting most key components such as UI, databases and agents control.
    • Collectors responsible for collecting information on the target systems.

Central Instance:

  • The central instance provides the main application services:
    • A REST API to consume Agent's data and provide a WEB user interface.
    • Databases to store configuration, metrics, reports, metadata and all generated information.
    • A central control bus to manage remote agents.
  • The central instance can be hosted on premise or via SAAS.

Collectors:

  • Collectors are agents that will locally collect and analyse information from the devices
  • Then consolidated information is sent back to the central instance
  • Collectors are a very efficient way of monitoring systems within isolated environments without exposing them.
/home/clients/8c48b436badcd3a0bdaaba8c59a54bf1/wiki-web/data/pages/products/cockpit/1.0/userguide/introduction.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/21 10:35 by rbariou