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Master Console Center
MCC
March 2007
Main MCC Uses
All MCC installations have the capabilities described below.
Operational Consolidation
The MCC GUI is available via the X Windowing System. Terminals can be located anywhere on
the customer’s wide area network (WAN) or local area network (LAN). From an MCC terminal,
a single operator can monitor and manage distributed systems of different types anywhere on the
LAN or WAN. Alternatively, several MCC terminals may be installed and monitoring
responsibility can be divided between several locations or operators. The capability permits the
elimination of multiple monitoring interfaces, each of which can only monitor one system or a
single type of system.
Event Monitoring
The MCC can accept input events in many different forms, including:
• Console messages from mainframe or server systems.
• SNMP traps from any variety of networked SNMP agents. The MCC can also get and set
SNMP MIB variables.
• Command line events. Through the MCC's generic event handling feature, a command-
line program can send arbitrary events to the MCC.
• Output of any command typed at a console. MCC automation scripts can type any
command into any system. The responses to these commands are captured by the MCC.
• Time messages scheduled by the MCC Event Manager or scripts written in GCL (Global
Command Language).
Event messages are typically generated in response to system events such as power failure or
restoration, unauthorized logon attempts, filled disks, and so on. Messages may be filtered and the
level of notification configured according to their severity.
Event Response and Notification
The MCC can output commands and/or messages in response to events in several forms,
including:
• User-customizable graphical displays on the MCC terminal. MCC alerts and messages
appear on the MCC GUI.
• Direct command(s) to an MCC managed system. The MCC can enter commands into any
console connected to the MCC. This allows the MCC to act as if the operator typed in
these commands on a system connected to the data center.
• Other Linux programs. Since the MCC executes on a Linux server, any Linux program
can appear on the MCC interface.
• Other systems management packages. The MCC can interact with most packages that
support SNMP.
• E-mail. The MCC can send SMTP e-mail.
• Pages. The MCC can send messages to certain paging systems.
• Signboard message.
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