The installation procedure for Live Health not only sets up Concord's application, but also adds the CERN Web server, Open Ingress database engine and SCO's XVision PC X server, which is used to manage the software locally from the server console. For this review, we focused on the Network Health module. After we provided the software with an IP range, it quickly identified 67 SNMP-manageable devices on the LAN, ranging from hubs and switch ports, to a Network Appliance NetCache C1100 we're currently evaluating, to a number of servers that had SNMP agents active. Normally, the software performs the discovery process once per day, at midnight. This, like most health parameters, is extremely user-configurable there are options for just about everything, which can be overwhelming until you decide to just trust the defaults.
All configuration takes place from the server console.
According to Concord, Live Health is preprogrammed with the MIB definitions for more than 500 SNMP-manageable devices, so it can find out as much information as is relevant. Unlike EotS, it doesn't ask devices for their fan status or monitor their operating temperature. Nor does it determine the network's topology and, thus, device and port dependencies. All captured data is stored in the Open Ingress database, normally for six weeks. After this initial survey has been completed, the company recommends letting the application run for a few days, so it can get used to normal traffic patterns, and build a baseline.