Runecast Analyzer uses the VMware Knowledge Base to analyze the vSphere configuration and logs. It exposes potential issues before they cause major outages. Runecast also uses the vSphere Security Hardening guides and Best Practices to scan your VMware infrastructure for compliance.
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Overview
Runecast develops proactive IT monitoring solution that uses a
vendor’s Knowledge Base articles to automatically analyze the IT
infrastructure and expose potential issues, before they cause outages.
* Knowledge Base: IT software vendors (VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, SAP, etc…) maintain a public repository of articles describing known issues
3. Knowledge documented by VMware
Publicly available information sources of best practices and known issues
Best practices and blogs
Well respected blog sources that come
up with issues and best practices in
addition to the VMware KB
Security Hardening Guide
Vendor released security hardening
guidelines
VMware Knowledge Base
Official vendor knowledge base that is
continuously updated with all best
practices and known issues reported by
customers.
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The Problem
The available documented IT knowledge is used mostly
reactively to solve issues after they happen !
All other root causes
Incidents caused by known issues
10%
90%
IT infrastructure incident causes
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Problems in operations
Massive amount of IT Knowledge used reactively
Lots of time lost in troubleshooting
Security healthchecks done manually
Best Practices not used
Huge amount of logs that are unusable
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Expert Solution
Best practices
Security Hardening Guide
VMware Knowledge Base
Proactive VMware management solution that uses our expertise and VMware
Knowledge Base articles to analyze virtual infrastructure and expose potential issues
and best practice violations, before they cause major outages.
Configuration and Logs
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Features
Created by a team of highly certified (VCDX, VCAP, ITIL) experts in virtualization, with many years of experience in dealing with
large enterprise environments.
Best Practices
Healthchecks based on the vSphere Security Hardening Guide.
Runecast Analyzer runs securely on premises, so no data leaves your data center.
Security Hardening
Log Analysis
Correlates log entries from your hosts, VMs and vCenters to known and documented issues to easily identify the root cause of
operational issues.
KB Configuration Analysis
Runecast Analyzer knows your specific configuration and uses the wealth of available knowledge and our extensive expertise to
identify and expose potential issues before they impact your business.
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Features continued
Continuous compliance
Runecast Analyzer offers the most up-to-date industry best practices and ensures that any new documented issues and lessons
learned are checked towards your environment.
Lightweight
Runecast Analyzer comes as a virtual appliance - lightweight, secure and can be deployed in a couple of minutes.
Fast
Your infrastructure is analyzed in minutes and you are presented with a report about the state of your environment.
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Business benefits
Reduce cost
Prevent outages, save time and avoid audit penalties.
Save time
Less troubleshooting and healthchecking. More time for innovating.
Minimize outages
Discover and remediate potential issues before they cause outages.
Get visibility in your logs and configuration.
Improve visibility
Minimize risk – continuous compliance
Your environment now follows industry best practices and is configured in the most optimal way.
Continuous Security Hardening, Security KBs, Secure Architecture.
Increase Security
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Secure Architecture
Company network
Internet
VMware KB
Runecast
Central Repository
Admin vCenter
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Editor's Notes
At Runecast we develop a new approach to IT monitoring , a proactive approach which uses that online repository of known issues maintained by each vendor, also called a knowledge base, to identify possible issues before they appear. Let’s dive into that and understand why we believe this is needed.
When an IT problem occurs, causing some servers or services to be unavailable , the traditional IT monitoring catches that incident and creates an alert, which is then picked up by an IT administrator. He investigates the problem using his knowledge or by googling the symptoms, finds a solution, usually in the knowledge base of the vendor, or some blog article and fixes the issue. The problem with this approach is that about 90% of the issues affecting IT infrastructures are already known and documented issues. The bigger problem is that in typical enterprise companies, loss caused by outage of a IT infrastructure may reach millions of $.
