• Clarity

• Validation & Standardization
• Automate DBA Tasks
• Patching
• Provisioning
• Compliance & Configuration Management
• Turnkey RAC Solutions

• Clarity and Cloud

• Patchworks

          

Validation & Standardization

One of the biggest challenges to deploying new databases or database clusters is verifying that the server is configured correctly, as well as ensuring that any new infrastructures are deployed in a standardized fashion. IT organizations will invest time and money in writing standards, but how can they know that when the database is rolled out, the standard was followed?

GridApp Clarity™ automates the creation of standardized database builds as well as ensures ongoing validation through simple-to-access holistic reporting. Using Clarity, IT directors can "look back" and confirm whether policies have been followed with every change made to the database. Clarity users can simply identify differences, and take immediate steps to bring the database "back in line" if desired.

In addition, Clarity offers a best practices library of server configuration for various database platforms. With a library of thousands of checks for Oracle, Oracle RAC, SQL Server (standalone and clustered), Sybase and DB2, DBAs can not only know, but prove, that a server is configured correctly when it is turned over to them. Some of the types of validation include:

• Kernel configuration
• Required OS patches
• Storage configuration
• Network parameters
• SSH configuration

Clarity is the only solution on the market that provides this in-depth library of validation and standardization best practices, dramatically saving the DBA time and effort.