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Enea Announces Version 2.0 of Element High-Availability


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      Element

      High availability middleware and application services platform for distributed embedded systems.

      • System-wide interprocess communications, discovery, and publish/subscribe services
      • Event logging and network supervision
      • High-availability shelf and fault management
      • Standards based (ATCA, SAF)
      • Scales from DSPs, to 32-bit CPUs and network processors
      • Linux and RTOS support

       

      High-Availability Application Services Platform for Distributed Networking Systems

      Element is a suite of high-availability, standards-based middleware services that sit between the operating system and applications. Built atop Enea’s LINX interprocess communications foundation, Element extends the functionality of embedded operating systems, providing advanced distributed communications and management functionality typically associated with large enterprise operating systems

      Element provides core services for synchronizing, instrumenting, monitoring, and establishing communications between applications spread across multiple operating systems and processors. Element also provides network supervision, fault management, and shelf management services that make it easy to monitor, repair, configure, provision, and upgrade live systems as they operate in the field.

      LINX Communications Foundation

      Element’s LINX-based communications provide a foundation for building complex distributed applications that span multiple devices and operating systems. These services make it easy for processes to discover other processes and services, communicate with those processes, advertise service availability, broadcast information to and share information with other processes (publish/subscribe), and monitor other processes for readiness. Element’s system-wide communications services are device and OS independent, providing transparency that enables systems to be scaled and reconfigured without changes to the application code.

      Event Logging and Application Monitoring

      Element’s event logging and application monitoring services make it easy for developers to instrument their applications, greatly increasing visibility into system operation. Event logging enables application processes to log and report event and state information such as slot/service availability, diagnostics and critical network events such as alarm conditions. Event logs can also be aggregated system wide and archived to persistent media (including remote file systems) for live or post-mortem analysis. Developers and network operators can interactively obtain this information using standard Web browsers.

      HA Fault Management

      Element’s High Availability Framework (HAF) delivers all of the services required to build a true non-stop computing platform. The HAF provides full fault management, including monitoring, detection, recovery, and reporting, for every resource in the system. The HAF employs active heartbeat monitoring and reactive error detection schemes to ensure the health of key hardware and software components at the system, slot and application levels. The HAF also provides a lightweight state checkpoint service, which preserves state information in the event of failover to a redundant blade.

      HA Shelf Management

      Element also provides a comprehensive suite of shelf management services for configuring and monitoring individual slots, blades and chassis. Element works with shelf management controllers to detect and configure blades, track revision numbers, and monitor key blade-level parameters like temperature, voltage and fan speed. Element also supports alarm management and hot swap, which enables individual blades to be inserted and removed from a live chassis.

      Supported Platforms

      • OSE™
      • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0
      • Fedora Core 4.0
      • Monta Vista Linux 3.1/4.0

      CPUs:

      • Intel Architecture (x86 and compatibles)

      • PowerPC

       

      Built-in fault management, shelf management, and upgrade management Increases availability in fielded systems
      Scalable from DSPs to high-end CPUs and network processors Enables a single code base to serve a broad range of applications, including multiple nodes in large distributed systems
      LINX transparent, system-wide interprocess communications services Enables sophisticated discovery, supervision and addressing in distributed applications
      Seamless Linux/RTOS solution with common API Facilitates optimal distribution of applications across multiple operating system; Enhances scalability
      Modular, layered architecture Increases scalability. Enables service mix to be customized for each application
      Independent of target OS, processor, or interconnect Reduces development and maintenance cost by enabling equipment makers to server a broader range of applications with fewer platforms
      Native lightweight framework implementation High-performance, low-overhead execution environment
      Cohesive, integrated service framework Enhances quality and speeds deployment