This is archived documentation for an older version of Nirvana (v2.0). Please refer to documentation for the latest version if required.

Nirvana Realm Manager Tool

Nirvana provides a rich suite of management and administration tools. Nirvana includes a complete management API and an Administration tool has been developed exclusively with this API.

The Nirvana management API and Administration tool use in-band management. Nirvana can be managed remotely over TCP/IP sockets, SSL enables sockets, HTTP and HTTPS. Both normal and user-authenticated proxies are also supported.

 

Centralised Management of multiple Nirvana Realm servers

The Nirvana administration tool allows you to manage one or more Nirvana Realm servers centrally. Each server can contain a mixture of queues, channels and Peer to Peer services.

 

Performance Monitoring

The Administration tool provides the ability to monitor all aspects of Nirvana Realms including individual queues/channels as well as specific client connections.

 

Remote Configuration

The Nirvana Administration tool allows you to centrally manage every aspect of Nirvana. The tool can be used to administer both Nirvana Realm servers and Nirvana clients.

Network Interface Management

The Nirvana Administration tool facilitates easy interface management. Nirvana interfaces supporting different network protocols can be added, removed, start, stopped and reconfigured dynamically. For more information please see the Nirvana wire protocols FAQ.

Setting Security Policies

Nirvana offers complete control over security policies. Nirvana store security policies locally or be driven by any external entitlements service. Nirvana's rich set of entitlements ensure that everything from a network connection through to a channel/queue creation can be controlled on a per user and/or host basis. For more information please see the Nirvana ACL's FAQ.

SSL Management

SSL can be fully administered via the administration tool also. Different SSL chains can be assigned to individual Nirvana interfaces, each one supporting its own set of cryptographic algorithms. For more information please see the Nirvana SSL guide.

Logfile Reports

The Nirvana Administration tool provides full access to the log files of all Nirvana Realms that it has access to.

Audit Reports

The Nirvana Administration tool provides full access to audit logs allowing you to track all changes made to any aspect of your Nirvana namespace.

Data Snooping

The Nirvana Administration tool provides the ability to inspect the contents of messages remotely using the Snoop panel.