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Key Takeaways
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- See how SystemEDGE 6.5 offers integration with Ansible, enabling automated installation.
- Leverage the release’s support for Ansible AWX, which offers a web-based user interface for governing deployments.
- Improve the reliability and efficiency of data collection, ensuring information flows into DX NetOps.
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We are pleased to announce the general availability of SystemEDGE 6.5. For customers using DX NetOps, SystemEDGE is a key component for gaining a comprehensive view of server infrastructure health. It functions as an agent that resides on systems like physical servers or virtual machines. SystemEDGE collects fundamental performance and status information and delivers reports via SNMP. This data, including metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, and application activity, forms the foundation of a robust monitoring strategy, enabling extended visibility from the DX NetOps Portal.
Streamlining large-scale agent management
In any large IT environment, the deployment and lifecycle management of monitoring agents can represent a significant operational task. Manually installing, upgrading, and configuring large numbers of agents is a time-consuming process that can introduce inconsistencies. To preserve the integrity of the overall observability platform, it is essential to ensure that every system is correctly configured and delivering reliable data.
The primary focus of SystemEDGE 6.5 is to directly address these operational mechanics through automation.
What's new in SystemEDGE 6.5
This release introduces several key features designed to simplify and accelerate large-scale deployments.
The most significant enhancement is the new integration with Ansible, a widely adopted IT automation tool. Teams can now use Ansible to execute playbooks for installing and upgrading SystemEDGE agents across the entire infrastructure. This dramatically reduces manual effort and helps ensure that every agent is deployed with a consistent and validated configuration, minimizing the risk of errors.
For teams seeking more centralized control over their automation workflows, SystemEDGE 6.5 also provides support for Ansible AWX. AWX offers a web-based user interface and REST API for managing Ansible, providing a single, scalable point of control for orchestrating and monitoring SystemEDGE agent deployments.
Additionally, this release enhances solution troubleshooting by providing more granular and detailed logging from its common components. Clear, actionable logs can help teams more quickly diagnose and resolve issues with the agent's data collection process, reducing potential monitoring gaps and ensuring data flows reliably into the DX NetOps platform.
Practical improvements for operations teams
These new automation capabilities translate directly into practical benefits for teams managing network and IT infrastructure. The reduction in manual, repetitive tasks reduces the need to involve system engineers in mundane activities. Automated deployments lead to greater consistency and fewer configuration-related errors, which strengthens the reliability of the data being collected.
This release of SystemEDGE is focused on improving the foundational data collection layer of your DX NetOps solution. By incorporating powerful and widely used automation tools, it reinforces the reliability and efficiency of the entire network operations workflow, ensuring that the information flowing into DX NetOps is both timely and trustworthy.
For a complete overview of all the release’s new features, enhancements, and technical details, please review the SystemEDGE 6.5 Release Notes. You can download the new release from the Broadcom Support Portal to begin leveraging these new automation capabilities in your environment.
