| Managing Linux servers made easy with Linux q-Status Rev 5 |
Oct. 30, 2007
LogiQwest, a Huntington Beach, Calif.-based data center server manager company, has announced a major new release of its Linux q-Status Server Analysis and Configuration software: q-Status Rev5.
This release incorporates a new user interface and expands the use of Web 2.0 technologies to streamline dynamic reporting and analysis. With q-Status, system managers get at a glance side-by-side server analysis of patches, software and kernel configurations on their servers.
q-Status supports summary reports of all servers in the data center. A new feature is dynamic Disk summary reporting. This summarizes not just the total disk space used, on both individual servers and across the server farm. It also enables administrators to track storage space that's available with dynamic file system type filtering (e.g. root, data, var). "We are very proud of the new disk summary report as it easily provides answers IT and finance have long searched for," said Michael Barto, LogiQwest's lead product evangelist. "It identifies which servers have the most free space available and which servers have the most disk space used."
The program also provides baseline server history analysis so you can see where systems are overloading before end-users start calling in about slow performance. The q-Status discrepancy engine supports various filter options that administrators can invoke on the fly to verify compliance, changes of the configuration deployments and the normal server aging processes.
So, for example, if you need to know if every system has been updated to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5 or if all servers have now been configured to use the new SAN (storage area network), q-Status lets you do all these things while sitting at your console.
Other useful features include the ability to track hardware, software, patches, kernel as well as historical baseline comparisons. The program enables you to narrow this down to the module level so that you display "revision conflict" and "missing only" files and modules. You can also use q-Status for basic network trouble-solving such as checking for duplicate IP (Internet Protocol) numbers.
The program does all this with automatic server data collected by standard Unix and Linux administration programs with no manual update requirements. All communication processes use the usual Linux/Unix open standards, such as SSH (Secure Shell) for secure server-to-q-Status communications.
q-Status Linux supports both corporate-supported enterprise Linux versions such as RHEL and SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Linuxes such as Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu, which tend to be used in data centers by expert Linux administrators.
The Linux version is the third module in the q-Status product family release. The company also has versions out for the Solaris and HP-UX Unix operating systems. LogiQwest will incorporate these technologies in future releases of the other q-Status family members for Windows and IBM-AIX operating systems.
This system management software is licensed per Web server, per operating system family as a single instance for reporting and comparing on a per server basis on a yearly basis. Large data centers with upwards of 10,000 servers may benefit from a site license utilizing the database-driven optional q-Status Enterprise.
The program can be installed by the client or by LogiQwest or LogiQwest partners. Additional support, as for customizations, is available on a time and material basis.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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