SA Forum Conformant HA Middleware

Enea Element is a comprehensive suite of services that provides a foundation for building and managing complex, distributed, high-performance, fault-tolerant applications.

It provides an open architecture middleware solution for distributed systems, leveraging Enea LINX for reliable distributed IPC.

Element has many advantages:

• SA Forum - Conformant Availability Management Framework (AMF)
• Industry’s only complete software In-Service Upgrade support
• Reliable, mature platform tightly integrated with leading hardware platform vendors such as Kontron, Radisys, and IBM
• Complete embedded management framework through partner Tail-f Systems, the leading supplier of XML-based network management software (ConfD)
• Industry’s only support for DSP farms and subsystems.

Core services

Among it's core services Element provides Publish/subscribe and flow control messaging models. The redundant event log delivers a single, time-synchronized event trace for the entire distributed system. Pinpoint troubleshooting is enabled by flexible filtering, sorting and storage options.

The system monitor provides run-time visibility into application status and behavior. Porting to various operating systems, CPUs and chassis architectures is facilitated by operating system and hardware platform abstraction layers.

Additional services

• High availability - Service Availibility Forum (SA Forum) conformant availability management framework
• Software management/in-Service upgrade services
• Chassis management for hardware inventory, provisioning, monitoring and alarms
• Embedded management/network management

It also facilitates the design of portable software that can be reused across multiple generations of products and take advantage of the latest hardware upgrades.