Driving Disruptive

Innovation
In Event and Fault
Management

Technical Overview

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 Architecture for the New IT Landscape

 Fundamental innovation
in the architecture and

Automation

Enrichment
Correlation
business processes

Escalation
Filtering
CMDB
 Focus on building a
‘change ready’ event
Business Logic
describing: YARPD Busines
Actions applied to s Logic
and fault management alert
Alert Messages Dynami
c
Configurati
Variable on
 An open source s Documents

Transpositi

duplicaton
Filtering

De-
community-driven model

on
Collections of
Business Logic configuration
describing: OMOSD
DB’s
How an alert is
created Event Messages

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 …and our Focus is on 4 Clear Issues

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 Architected for Disruption (1/2)

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 Architected for Disruption (2/2)

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 Key Benefits
 Full visibility and control of today’s
dynamic infrastructures
 Elimination of silent failures
 Rapid mean time to detect and repair
 Focus on business impact and
operations’ priorities
 Drastically reduce the total cost of
ownership
 Fastest time to value
 Native multi-tenant architecture
 Facilitate ITIL and eTOM compliance
 Future proof

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 The RiverMuse Solution
RiverMuse ES
Subscription-based
event & fault mngt
Pro Includes JED, certified
& supported binaries,
ES
warranty,
RiverMuse indemnification
Core Core
Free & fully
functional open RiverMuse Pro
source event & fault Advanced
management offer subscription- based
under GPL3 event & fault mngt

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 Technology
 Unix based (LAMP)
 Fedora
 RHEL
 and others
 Distributable components
 MySQL database (database abstraction on
roadmap)
 Java front end
 C++ back end

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 Overall Product Architecture
JavaScript Desktop Java Enterprise Desktop

Desktop Content Manager

Alert Handler
yarpd
Alert Handler Database

Event Content Database

omosd
Event Handler
gSOA
Content Mediator (API) Perl PHP XML P C++
snmp rsysl
Passive Mediation d ogd Active Mediation

Event 3rd Party Policy-Driven 3rd Party

Mediation Mediation Pollers PING Pollers

Dynamic Infrastructure

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 Event and Alert Processing
External
Actions
Event Alert Rules Conditions
Formatting & Actions
R*M Event /
Agen Alert Correlation
t Processing
Manag
R*M
ed Databa

Agen se

Entities
t

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 Central Rules Management
 All processing rules managed from central
point
 Agents manageable centrally through API
 Processing rules stored in central database
 Single language for event and alert
processing
 GUI wizard or SQL (single language)
 Store and replay to assist with rules
development

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 RiverMuse Pro
 Reusable Business Logic
− Implementation agnostic business rules
− RiverMuse Object definitions
 Variables
 Alert rules
 Conditions
 Actions
 Transportable Business Logic
 Central library of RiverMuse Object definitions
 Subscription Management
 Distribution and management of Object definitions
 Entity Management
 Application of business logic
 Management of RiverMuse entities
− Manual
− Auto-discovery

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 Business-Driven Event Processing
Config. data
Execution

Dynamic Dynamic
Configuration Variables

Transportable
Business Business
Logic
Logic

Business Configuration
Environment Processes Policy Data

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 RiverMuse Pro: Reusable Business
Logic Automatic
Validation
Database

File
Input variables
Text Compil
(rmo e& Binaries Data conditions
) Validat (rmb) Load
e actions
Manual Manual
Input Validation alert_rules
agent_data
_
rules

entities

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