Platform Manager is the most complete, integrated, and flexible cluster management and monitoring system commercially available. It optimizes the deployment and ongoing administration of your cluster. Platform Manager offers comprehensive tools for system installation, configuration, management, and monitoring, includes links with leading job scheduling environments and with all of the major "lower level" hardware management tools. Platform Manager runs on most industry leading hardware platforms so you can leverage the latest technologies, maximizes the amount of work clusters do, and reduces operating cost and complexity.

Benefits of Platform Manager:

• Faster cluster, server farm and grid deployments let you automate the process of starting from "bare metal" and build an entire cluster across a wide variety of hardware platforms
• Simple administration through a single point of management provides a user-friendly interface to automate installation, configuration, updating, and monitoring of complex heterogeneous environments
• Quick deployment of multiple cluster systems with intelligent application and service-based provisioning
• Offers all the tools you need to manage the most complex heterogeneous HPC environments
• Capture and use information about cluster workload to ensure all available resources are optimally used

You should consider Platform Manager if you:

• Need a comprehensive, yet easy to use system to manage the complete lifecycle of your cluster
• Want to protect your investment in HPC infrastructure by ensuring maximum use at lowest cost
• Need to provision, manage, and maintain multiple clusters and server farms in a commercial, research, or academic environment.
• Operate clusters as part of your production environment, and high availability is a critical requirement

Selected facts about Platform Manager:

• Easy-to-use wizard that automates deployment and save time by walking you through the deployment
• “Golden” image of cluster configuration allows quick provisioning of additional machines
• Single point of management from which to update and modify your cluster, regardless of the hardware platform
• A full suite of monitoring and alarming capabilities, including a unique fault prediction algorithm, help anticipate potential issues, proactively highlight potential problems, and plan updates and upgrades
• Root cause analysis with detailed levels of information, helps restore clusters to full operation quickly
• Platform Manager/HA extension ensures highly available installations
• Platform Manager functionality integrated with Platform LSF workload management capabilities. Both products share a single interface