Key features in DSE OpsCenter
DSE OpsCenter offers features to more easily manage DataStax Enterprise clusters.
DataStax Enterprise (DSE) OpsCenter includes the following key features:
- Dashboard monitoring
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Quickly access an overview that shows any alerts and condenses the dashboards of multiple clusters.
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Displays an overview of commonly monitored performance metrics.
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Provides the ability to add and edit performance metrics graphs in the dashboard.
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Includes monitoring capabilities of DSE In-Memory tables.
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Enables viewing the Spark console.
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- Lifecycle Manager
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Simplify deploying DSE clusters. Centrally manage cluster, datacenter, and node configurations from a single location.
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Run an install, configure, and upgrade job to install DSE, push configurations to cluster nodes, and upgrade DSE.
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Import a cluster topology to centrally manage cluster configurations from Lifecycle Manager (LCM).
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- Configuration and administration
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Manage cluster configuration and simplify cluster administration.
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Complete administrative tasks, such as adding a cluster, using simple point-and-click actions.
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Manage multiple clusters from a single OpsCenter instance using DataStax Agents.
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Configure automatic failover from the primary OpsCenter instance to a backup OpsCenter instance.
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Rebalance data across a cluster after adding or removing non-virtual nodes.
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Manage multiple nodes simultaneously for certain bulk operations.
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- Security management
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Define security options and role-based authentication.
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Configure security options with the ability to define user roles, authenticate with LDAP or Kerberos, configure SSL, and encrypt sensitive configuration values.
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Configure security logging to record user activity in OpsCenter.
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- Alerts
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Configure alert warnings and trigger events for impending issues.
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Enable alerts posted to a URL to post events.
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Enable SMTP email alerts to send alterts to multiple email addresses.
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- Metrics
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View historical metrics more than one week into the past and download cluster data and diagnostic information.
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Collect metrics every minute from Cassandra, DSE Analytics, and DSE Search nodes, and store the data in a keyspace created by OpsCenter.
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Download a cluster report.
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Generate a diagnostics tarball to send to support for further troubleshooting.
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- DSE Management Services
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Configure backup and restore operations, manage cluster performance, repair keyspaces and tables, and complete other management tasks on DSE clusters.
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Configure automatic or manual backup and restore of DSE clusters using the Backup Service.
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Continuously validate that data is synchronized on all replicas using the NodeSync Service.
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Run and continuously perform repair operations across DSE clusters using the Repair Service.
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Understand cluster performance trends and plan for future capacity using the Capacity Service.
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Schedule predefined best practice rules that check various properties of clusters using the Best Practice Service.
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Monitor performance metrics and troubleshoot issues with suggested recommendations using the Performance Service.
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