With organizations becoming progressively more IT dependant for their day-to-day businesses, enterprise-wide systems management, especially across a distributed computing architecture has moved from being a competitive advantage to an essentiality for survival.
However, every systems manager knows that a reactive break-fix mechanism in managing the internal IT Operations is a mammoth drain on human, time and cost resources. With an expansive job description that details managing the servers, databases, applications, user desktops and others, SysAdmins have their life torn between running behind issues, and managing patches. OpManager offers a host of capabilities that could move your systems management to a proactive stance, thus dedicating your time and efforts on strategizing and decision-making.
With respect to IT Operations Management, OpManager provides in depth monitoring across servers, applications, URLs and Windows Infrastructure. Added to this, OpManager also brings the capability to manage various parameters in UPSs, Firewalls and every other networked device.
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Complete Server Management
When it comes to managing servers, OpManager delivers exceptional performance with ease. By driving information about the availability, utilization, performance, server-temperature and packet loss, amongst others, OpManager ensures that you always stay in control of your servers.
OpManager equips you with a robust dashboard to continually monitor the CPU, Memory and Disk utilization in each of your servers. Moreover, you could set up your own custom SNMP traps and monitor an endless array of parameters. Further, with OpManager you can monitor your UPS and ensure that your data center is never in the dark!
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Application Management
A disruption in the email service could quite suspend business and cause havoc. With bi-directional mails running throughout the day, having a close watch on your exchange becomes essential. Using OpManager, you can monitor over 60 critical parameters out of the box, and pre-defined thresholds that you may later fine-tune as you find necessary.
Another important strangle hold, especially for small and medium business houses, is the MS SQL Servers. Banking on them for most of the database needs calls upon the necessity to closely monitor your MS SQL Servers round the clock. In addition to monitoring MS SQL Services, OpManager's MSSQL database monitor counters include Data Files size, Log files Used Percentage, Active Transactions, Log growths, Log shrinks, Log files free size, Log Cache hit ratio, etc. with an intuitive dashboard.
OpManager’s applications monitoring capabilities are truly never ending. You can now monitor any custom application that supports SNMP with OpManager, and even choose to be notified if the application violates a threshold you created.
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Service Monitoring
OpManager monitors essential system level services for availability and response-time, thereby ensuring that your systems management plan is complete. OpManager’s service monitoring capabilities extend across DNS, Echo, FTP, Finger, HTTPS, IMAP, LDAP, NNTP, POP, SMTP, Telnet, Web, Weblogic etc.
OpManager also provides detailed graphs and reports about availability of the services that are being monitored. You can also choose to be notified if a service goes down. Further, the service monitoring is customizable and you can add any number of custom services to be monitored.
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URL Monitoring
With even 24X7 monitoring of website becoming pass? robust and resilient URL monitoring is more of a necessity in todays world of hacks and threats.
OpManager manages URLs, Virtual Hosts and Intranet by ensuring that they are reachable and serving pages, instead of merely depending on ICMP pings or TCP port checks on port 80. Moreover, OpManager’s ‘Content Check?allows checking pages against specific texts, thereby keeping hackers at bay. OpManager goes even further by allowing you to set request parameters such as login details and check if the page login was successful. This helps monitor web applications that require authentication.
Finally, A database failure on your public website could turn out to be quite embarrassing when users fill up a lot of details and click on submit - only to receive a database error or exception. With OpManager’s URL monitoring you have a simple solution. Just create a dynamic page which makes a database query and prints a success message. By having OpManager monitor this page and doing a content match for the success string, you can rest assured that your database is up and running along with your webpage.
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Event log Monitoring
Firewalls and virus scanners protect your network from external threats. But it is just as much your responsibility to protect them from internal threats as well. By monitoring the server event logs, and setting up a real time alerting mechanism, OpManager helps you prevent internal security breaches as well. With automatic as well as your own custom rules you can now monitor critical security logs such as failed logons, incorrect passwords and others across all your windows servers and workstations.
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UPS Load, charge and performance monitoring
An interruption in the power system or even a flicker could cause expensive downtime. But UPSs, being electronic devices, are also susceptible to their share of issues. With OpManager, you are not only equipped proactively, but in most cases can even totally solve the issue before it occurs. Gaining real-time visibility into your UPS’s health by monitoring the charge, input line voltage, load and output current and voltage gives you the ability to act before any damage occurs. OpManager’s e-mail and SMS alerting when a fault occurs or a threshold is violated makes sure that you are always the first to know when there is an issue
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