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EventTracker Features - Managing the Virtual Enterprise

Virtualization technology is radically changing the way IT delivers services to the enterprise.

With this fundamental change in delivery there also needs to be a change in management to meet new security and operational challenges:

  • With a combination of virtualization and rack and stack machines, a single chassis can contain 10 big machines, each running 10 guest OS's. A hardware failure that takes that rack down is not just inconvenient, but a disaster.
  • Since network traffic between virtual instances in done in the vritual layer, and never puts actual traffic on the wire, traditional network monitoring solutions have no visibility..
  • With the convenience and ease to create virtual machines when a specific situation arises, it is inevitable that virtualized sprawl will occur and machines that are no longer needed will exist.

The ability to see into these new layers is critical.

EventTracker supplies the most complete support for managing the virtual enterprise of any SIEM solution on the market.

EventTracker collects and monitors event logs from all layers of the virtual infrastructure, including:

  • Server management applications such Dell OpenManage
  • Hypervisors such as Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware VSX
  • Embedded hypervisors such as ESXi
  • Virtual management applications like Vcenter.

All the logs of these critical assets can be:

  • Collected, analyzed and stored
  • Combined with the traditional sources of event logs such as Operating Systems, network infrastructure and applications

EventTracker is then able to perform complete real-time correlation, alerting and reporting on trends and usage for the entire virtualized enterprise.