ManageEngine Applications Manager has now a lot more cool features with a better User Interface for monitoring applications, servers, databases performance and availability. The journey of Applications Manager version 8 to Version 9 has been very exciting with the addition of out of the box support for monitoring SAP, AS400/iSeries, SharePoint, WebSphere MQ, Sybase etc. 

Key Features in Applications Manager 9

• Oracle E-Business Suite Monitoring: ManageEngine Applications Manager's Oracle E-Business Suite monitor enables you to monitor the availability and performance of your Oracle EBS Setup, from a centralized web console.
• Custom Dashboards:ManageEngine Applications Manager allows customers to create custom views of Performance metrics that are important from the oranization's point of view

Other upgrades include:

• Microsoft SQL Server database back-end support.
• Enhancements in server monitoring.

•  AS400/iSeries Monitoring : Ensure the jobs, spools, sub systems and other components in your AS400 environment works smoothly. Includes ability to administer the AS400.
•  SAP CCMS metrics : This capability adds to the existing SAP performance monitoring ability. With this new feature you can monitor custom parameters exposed by SAP Business Applications like SAP CRM, BI etc and get more mileage out of your SAP deployment.
•  LDAP, DNS and FTP/SFTP Service Monitors : This helps understand the quality of service of critical Internet Services that are used by your customers.
•  Add Custom Monitor Types :  If you have some application not supported by Applications Manager, this capability will help you bridge that gap. This also provides  ability to add custom scripts, integrate custom Java, .NET. C# and other code that your development team could write for you.
•  Database Query Monitor : This helps the IT Admin add business intelligence in to Applications Manager and provide business managers with a graphical view about business performance in addition to technology performance. This can also helps your database administrator to add custom SQL queries for getting additional performance metrics.
• Flash-based Graphical view, called Business View to give better visibility on application dependency was added.
• With Network Monitoring Connector, integration with comprehensive Network Monitoring Tool, ManageEngine OpManager is complete.
•  Out of the box support for performance and availability monitoring of IBM WebSphere MQ, SilverStream, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, GlassFish Server , Sybase was added
•  Report Enhancements - Availability and Health Reports - Critical Snapshot, History reports added; Availability Trend Report, Outage Comparison Report added
•  Ability to configure Business hours for reports added. Provision for enabling and disabling attribute reports added.
•  Additional metrics such as Hour of day, Day of week, Statistical and Heat chart report tabs in 7,30 History data added

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The findings in the report will demonstrate how a converged technology and business perspective can improve performance management for applications critical to business performance, employee productivity and customer experience.

Susan

Recently we got an email on how a customer uses ManageEngine Applications Manager for Capacity planning. The various reports that are provided in ManageEngine Applications Manager for Oracle Performance Management came handy when the Oracle Database Administrator wanted to plan capacity. They could look at tablespace usage, Oracle datafiles and even number of sessions which makes it a valuable  Capacity planning Tool.

ManageEngine Applications Manager also supports monitoring various Oracle Applications, IBM Applications, packaged applications like Exchange Server and is a Server monitoring tool. The server monitoring capabilities also helped the administrator know the utilization and performance of various resources in their network.

Below are some highlights of monitoring Java Applications using ManageEngine Applications Manager.

 

Monitor JVM Performance and Gain Visibility with JVM Performance Reporting

The need to monitor JVM performance is as important as building and designing a Java Application. This is because complex enterprise applications use various APIs and coding practices to scale the application. To ensure the smooth running of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) the application team should ensure the command line parameters set are appropriate and need to tweak it regularly to ensure peak JVM performance. They need to monitor JVM usage and have a powerful Java Performance monitoring Tool.............................

Get more info about JVM Monitoring and how to analyze Java thread dump of a Java Application in production.





ManageEngine Applications Manager also comes with graphical views that help monitor JVM performance and view

These capabilities are in addition to the Web Transaction monitoring for J2EE or Java EE Applications already in place.

 We have published a new white paper titled "Application Performance Management for Enterprise Applications".

Read the full content of the white paper Application Performance Management for Enterprise Applications.

Some excerpts and Table of content of the white paper is quoted below.

Network Products Guide, an industry leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named ManageEngine Applications Manager and ManageEngine Desktop Central winners of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award.

ManageEngine Applications Manager was awarded Best in Datacenter Management.

"Again this year our readers have voted on the technology and services that they've found to be superior and would recommend to their peers," said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. "All of the editors here at Network Products Guide congratulate ManageEngine as our readers voted ManageEngine Applications Manager and Desktop Central as the best in their individual categories. ManageEngine's commitment to providing easy-to-use, affordable, yet powerful management software is exactly what IT administrators are looking for today."

"These awards go to the best technology products every year and we are honored that ManageEngine Applications Manager and Desktop Central have gained the trust of Network Products Guide readers around the world," said Girish Mathrubootham, vice president, ManageEngine. "We are committed to meeting our customers' needs by continually growing our family of installed and hosted management applications, and by keeping our prices low while increasing application capabilities and benefits."

To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.

Way to Go!!! ;-))

Susan

Consider a database driven application. For example, let’s consider a meteorological station wherein a software application collects various metrics such as temperature, wind, chill factor, humidity, rain precipitation and so on. This application gathers the information from various instruments and the data is stored in a database grid. The IT admin of this metrological station has to ensure that the work flow of this application is up and running and that they are available at all times.

The admin should be able to monitor specific key performance metrics (KPI) from these databases to find out if the processes executed by the software application are error-free. The admin should be able to find out the performance of the query that is being executed. The performance of the query is calculated by the amount of time taken by the query to execute and return value. If the query execution time is above a certain pre-assigned threshold, then the admin should immediately alerted that there has been some issue with the performance of this particular query. The admin can then take action to improve the query of the database and ensure that the application is running smoothly.

Using Database Query Monitor in Applications Manager, the admin will be able to do the exact same thing. In addition, instead of just being notified of a performance related issue with the query, the admin can assign certain actions related to the alert and thus automating the whole process. While the admin will get notified of certain error in the performance of a query, Applications Manager executes appropriate action assigned with the alert and ensure that the performance of the processes remain high. The admin can also enable reports for various queries that is being monitored and also schedule reports accordingly.

For more information about Database Query Monitor, click here. This is available from 8.5 version of Applications Manager, which you can download it here.

Going back to 1970s,  typewriter was used for some form of office automation. This was followed by other technologies, and later the PC era helped improve communication between users to a great extent. Some of these software improvements were also called groupware as they helped collaboration and quicker decision making, which in turn  helped improve the bottomline. These collaborative capabilities were achieved, not only because Enterprise Applications matured in its capability, but also because Enterprise IT was able to deliver it, when needed. This hence elevated the contribution of IT to the business.

Over the last decade or so, IT Management too has evolved. From merely monitoring the network and servers to application monitoring, to end user experience monitoring and fault management to performance management to Business Services Management.

There are lots of point products that can help manage the Network, Servers or Applications etc. Each of these market segments too have matured to a level where the IT Team finds real value.

Now how can you improve your existing investments ? Invest in products and solutions that have a vision to provide an integrated management solution which help different groups in IT organizations to collaborate towards a common end goal - Delivering better Business Applications. Empower your IT Management capabilities by investing in products and technologies that integrate.

ManageEngine today can help you gain more value with mature tools that also integrate to provide greater value.

One of the recent announcements from ManageEngine is the integration of the various Network Monitoring capabilities by ManageEngine OpManager that spans across Fault and Performance Management of Core network equipment to monitoring VOIP and Network Change and Configuration Management.

Similarly early this year, the integration of ManageEngine Applications Manager and ManageEngine OpManager via the Network Monitoring connector would help IT Teams to have a better perspective of  the servers, databases, application servers and the Network.

With this integrated Integrated Server, Application and Network Monitoring ManageEngine Applications Manager will provide availability and performance monitoring for applications and databases, while ManageEngine OpManager provides the same for the network. This information is then provided in a single dashboard  for the IT Administrators and Managers to make better informed decisions.

Well, is It not time to do to IT what IT did to Your business ?

Checkout the new AddOns released, to ensure your business gets more value for the buck, especially in the times of a slowing economy.

Gibu
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