ELM Enterprise Manager
ELM Enterprise Manager 5.0
is a rules based enterprise wide system and server monitoring, alerting, and
reporting software solution. Using small footprint Agents, either as real-time
installed Service Agents or polling Virtual Agents, ELM monitors the health and
status of your distributed Windows systems. For firewalls and network devices,
IP Agents monitor Internet Services and receive SNMP Traps and Syslog Messages.
The data collected is processed at the central ELM Server and stored in a
Microsoft SQL Server database. ELM Enterprise Manager will benefit any System
Administrator by fully supporting your proactive system management objectives.
Precision Controls
Easy to use custom Filters select data for concise
Views and trigger Rules for granular notification. ELM alerts you as conditions
change and presents the data in easy to analyze formats. This enables you to
take prompt corrective action when critical security or system events arise. ELM
will save you time and support your proactive system management objectives.
Flexible Reporting
Several flexible ELM reporting options provide you detailed visibility of your
critical health and status data. The ELM Publisher is preconfigured to collect
the data and generate many of the most commonly requested management reports. In
addition, ELM Editor is a custom reporting engine providing a query based tool
for generating ad hoc and schedulable reports. With ELM deployed, you can
analyze event data in real-time and evaluate performance trends over days,
weeks, or months.
Data Storage
All data is securely stored in Microsoft SQL Server databases. ELM requires two
database instances; the Primary Database for real-time reporting and a Failover
Database to ensure data continuity should the Primary Database be unavailable.
In addition, unique pruning and archiving features efficiently manage the data
for long term storage needs. The ELM Server provides exceptional security and
compliance data management.
Easy to Access
ELM Enterprise Manager utilizes the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) as its
primary interface. The ELM Console seen below is for configuring and viewing the
data you are monitoring. A read-only Web Viewer with a powerful search feature
is also included. The ELM Console displays the product architecture in three (3)
functional groups:
Notification Methods
ELM includes a rich, robust Notification Engine
that enables you to customize notification and corrective action to suit your
organizational needs. You can have separate notification methods for different
events, or a single notification method for all similar events. For example, you
could have one method that describes how to notify a database administrator
about important database related events, and another method for notifying a
security administrator about important security related events. You could have
yet another method that notifies all Help Desk technicians when a critical
server is down.
Notification Methods pass the full event
information to the notification engine, which then forwards that information
according to the methods selected. You may completely customize the message sent
via the Notification Method. This is important when there are restrictions on
message length, as in the case of a mobile pager.
Use the product menu below from the
Notification Method Wizard screen to learn more about the notification options
available in ELM Enterprise Manager
Results - Views, Reporting, Performance & More
The Results container in the ELM Console contains the
results of monitoring and management activities that have been configured. Here
you can view Alerts; the Event Views which provide a mechanism for grouping
events into a view that match one or more filters. Other options include access
to Performance Data which displays performance counter definitions and the most
recent data collected by Performance Collectors; and both the customizable and
preconfigured reporting options - ELM Editor and ELM Publisher. Use the menu
floating on the product screen below for more details about the Results views.
