Sybase Control Center provides a single, comprehensive,
Web-administration console for real-time performance, status, and availability monitoring of
large-scale Sybase enterprise servers.
Sybase Control Center combines a modular architecture, a rich client administrative
console, agents, common services, and tools for managing and controlling Sybase
products. It includes historical monitoring, threshold-based alerts and notifications,
alert-based script execution, and intelligent tools for identifying performance and
usage trends.
The Adaptive Server installer installs these Sybase Control Center components:
- Remote Command and Control Agent for Adaptive Server – a remote command and
control agent that runs on a managed server, and which is required to manage
Adaptive Server tasks within SCC.
- SNMP support for Adaptive Server – Simple Network
Management Protocol is a standard protocol used for network management. SNMP
allows managers and agents to communicate: managers send requests to agents, and
agents respond to queries from managers.
In addition, you must also install
the SCC Management User Interface for Adaptive Server in the custom installation option
by selecting the Sybase Control Center Management User Interface for Adaptive
Server feature. This feature provides the GUI that allows you to manage
and monitor activities in Adaptive Server using a Web browser.
In some cases, you may want to use a central SCC server to manage multiple Adaptive
Servers and other products rather than using the SCC server that is installed with each
Adaptive Server. Deployment considerations include:
- Minimizing network latency – you see better performance if you install SCC near
the monitored servers and near the workstations on which SCC Web clients are
running.
- Unified SCC environment – installing SCC in a central location lets you manage
and monitor your servers from one SCC installation, which is especially useful
in a replication environment.
- Administration and security – you can exercise differing levels of control in
different parts of your enterprise, for example, by protecting the data in some
servers more strictly than in others.
See
Preinstallation Tasks in
Sybase Control Center Installation
Guide for more details on installation and deployment considerations.
In a production environment, SAP recommends that you install the SCC
server on a machine other than the one you plan to run Adaptive Server on.
Note: In a cluster environment,
install the SCC remote command and control agent on each node of a cluster. You need
only install the SCC management UI, however, in one place.
For additional SCC information, see:
- Sybase Control Center Installation Guide – provides complete
installation, configuration, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Sybase Control Center for Adaptive Server Enterprise – includes
Sybase Adaptive Server configuration procedures, user assistance, and
troubleshooting information.