|
Applications Manager
Applications Manager is
an enterprise-ready and affordable web application management solution that
monitors and manages internal IT and production applications in a business
environment. It is an easy-to-use enterprise management solution for IT
Administrators and Operators managing an Internet Data Center or
the IT infrastructure of an enterprise.
 | Renders a holistic view of your
business application. |
| Offers application
performance management. |
| Extensive
Application Management
 |
Application Server (WebLogic
monitoring,
WebSphere monitoring,
Tomcat monitoring,
JBoss monitoring) |
|
Database Server (Oracle
management,
MySQL management,
MS SQL management) |
|
Services monitoring (Mail
Server, Web Server, SNMP Agents, FTP, Telnet, and TCP Port)
|
|
System Management (Windows,
Linux, and Solaris) |
|
Custom Applications (SNMP
and JMX-based) |
|
Website Monitoring |
|
| Provides real-time visibility into applications,
thereby enables easy identification of transaction bottlenecks and
performance hiccups. |
| Helps in identifying and analyzing
root cause of problems. |
| Spots problem areas,
diagnoses them, alerts immediately through notification, and prompts
corrective actions. |
| Helps in continuous monitoring and
trend analysis of IT environment using graphs and
performance report. |
|
Business Applications Create a logical view of your heterogeneous IT
infrastructure by grouping resources, such as applications, servers, and
systems in your network. We call the logical view a 'Business
Application' and each of the resources in the network as 'Monitor
Instances'. This gives you an integrated view for effective monitoring
and management.For example, the performance of an online web
application depends on various factors, such as the health of the
application server hosting the web application, the availability of the
web server for accessing the web applications, the database server for
storing or getting the required information, etc. These web applications
and services can be grouped together and monitored as a single business
application. |
 |
Applications Discovery
Using Applications Manager, you can discover network
resources (applications and services) running in a particular host or
machine, in a range of IP Addresses in your network, or in the complete
network. This manual discovery is made easy using a discovery
configuration form.
You can also choose to discover a specific application
server, database server, service, system, a custom application, or all
of them together in a business environment.
If a device is discovered, all the services running in
it are also discovered. Similarly. If an application server is
discovered, such as WebLogic, all associated components (EJB, Servlets,
etc.) are also discovered. |
 |
Performance Management
Monitor performance (health and availability) of your applications
and network resources, such as application server (WebLogic, WebSphere,
Tomcat, JBoss), database server (Oracle, MySQL),
custom application, services, and systems. Monitor over 30 critical
parameters such as response time, resource availability, utilization,
etc. of those resources.
The performance of these resources is being monitored
at regular intervals and the interval can be configured by a user.
Performance Management is based on the health
(configurable by user) and availability of the resources. Health
is an attribute that indicates the quality of service of a monitor
instance and Availability is the attribute that determines
whether a monitor instance is up or down and is available for use. |
 |
Performance Report
Perform trend analysis, identify bottlenecks, and plan
for your IT environment requirements from the real-time graphs and
comprehensive performance reports that are generated.
The reporting function enables you to analyze your
application server, database server, custom application, services, and
systems for months and all this without making any additional
configuration changes.
The graphs and reports can be viewed on a
custom-defined hour, daily, weekly, and monthly basis and can be
generated quickly. They also provide visibility into Mean Time To Repair
(MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) for each
application/service.
You can generate different reports based on the
resource type: Business Application report, Application Server report,
Database Server report, Service report, System report, and Custom
Application report.
|
 |
Detect, Notify, and Correct Problems
|
Application Manager Fault management feature helps in
reporting the errors in the managed system. Alerts, such as server down,
high servlet execution time, etc. are reported by Applications Manager
and you can take appropriate action on the same. Alerts can be generated by setting Thresholds. The
alert mechanism provides colour-coded alert depiction and option to add
operator notes. Also, any alert generated in the system is assigned a
severity and is notified appropriately.
The Alerts view provides immediate visibility into
errors and other critical problems occurring in the network. You can
further drill-down this view for more insight into the alerts.
When an error is detected, it can be notified
immediately. Notifications are possible through e-mails, SMS, or by
sending SNMP Traps to third-party consoles, such as HP OV and CA
Unicenter. You can also take corrective actions for a problem by
executing custom action script |
 |
Root Cause Analysis
|
Get into the details of critical alerts in your
environment using the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) feature. It provides
real-time visibility into applications, thereby enables easy
identification of transaction bottlenecks and performance hiccups. This
saves time spent on analyzing the problems. The Root Cause Analysis view is displayed in a
hierarchical structure. This Root Cause Analysis view can be accessed in
all the pages of the web client.
For example, Root Cause Analysis for WebLogic
Monitoring is done on a number of attributes such as servlet execution
time, execute thread current idle count, active connections current
count, leaked connection count, connection delay time, etc. All these
analyses are presented as problem statements, such as servlet execution
time for a web application on a particular host exceeds limit. |
 |
Web Client
| Applications
Manager provides an easy-to-use Web Client which allows you to access
monitored data and perform administrative operations. All tasks are
web-based. Different views are available to
monitor performance of your IT resources - Business Application, Monitor
Templates, Alerts, and Reports. A separate view is provided for
administrative operations which can be accessed only by administrators.
It simplifies IT administrative tasks and is effortless to work with.
It comes with a layout which makes your interaction
with the UI all the more interesting. |
|
System Requirements
Hardware
|
Operating Platform
|
Processor Type
|
Processor Speed
|
Memory
|
Hard Disk Space
|
| Windows |
Pentium III |
733 MHz |
256 MB RAM |
250 MB |
| Linux |
Pentium III |
733 MHz |
256 MB RAM |
250 MB |
|
Supported Operating Systems
Applications Manager is tested to support the following
operating systems and versions:
System Management (Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, HP UX and
Solaris)
Database Server (Oracle management, MySQL management, MS SQL management, IBM
DB2 Management)
Supported Browsers
| Netscape 7.0 and above |
| Mozilla 1.4 and above |
| Internet Explorer 5.0 and above |
Note: Applications Manager is optimized for 1024 x
768 resolution and above |
|
