Well I talked about a sale we had at the interop show in Las Vegas. Well here is the customer testimonial we got from Bill Bohlen of Hallmark Channel. I think the testimonial should talk for itself. Thanks Bill and Team !
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| We use Applications Manager to monitor our Weblogic application servers, along with the SQL databases and operating systems they run on. We managed to save tens of thousands of dollars by switching from CA’s Wily Introscope. Applications Manager can do everything Wily does, and all with no agents, and a browser-based UI. I set up the monitors I needed in less than a day. |
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[ <b>Mood:</b> Cool ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />We launched a new website monitoring service called Site24×7. If you find going through the process of downloading and installing a software to monitor your websites cumbersome, you can use Site24×7.
It has all the features of the URL Monitoring capability of Applications Manager and more.
The service is currently in beta and during that time you have no limitations in monitoring. It will ofcourse have a good free edition when it goes GA.
BTW users who host Applications Manager or any other AdventNet product on a public IP can also use this service to check whether the server is up or not !
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Dev already blogged on our Interop visit but stayed clear off App. Manager leaving something for me to post 
In short, we had a good Interop show in Las Vegas.
We had a lot of people coming to our booth to see the demos of all our enterprise products. We also had lot of people giving some kind words about our products.
Well some of the features people liked in Applications Manager were the Google Map integration, the J2EE Web Transaction Stats and ofcourse the ‘affordability’ of our solution. Did I miss to say even the breadth of applications that we can monitor?
We had many people come and say hey we use xxx or a yyy competitor product for that, that and we shell our $100K to $200K for that. How do you guys come out with this solution for that price!
Well we were sure about one thing, we impressed people this year too with our pricing and breadth of new features.
We also made the first ever ‘in-the-booth’ sale at the Interop. Adam Farkas of Crown Media (Hallmark Channel) won an iPod Nano for buying Applications Manager. Adam, Thanks to you and team ! We just enjoyed every bit of your team’s presence at the booth !
Gibu
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An in-depth review of Applications Manager, from a SQL Server DBA point of view has appeared in SQL Server Performance.com
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| ManageEngine Applications Manager offers unique features that are very helpful to DBAs. Although I focused on its use with SQL Server, you can use it with many other servers and services. Download and review this product for yourself. You won’t be disappointed. |
Have a read of the entire ‘Software Spotlight’ - Monitor Your Servers around the World with ManageEngine Applications Manager
Susan
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My personal favourite in the ‘threshold to attribute mapping screen’ in Applications Manager is the option ‘Apply to all monitors’. You can find it in the ‘Configure Alerts’ link for any specific metric / attribute.
For eg: I had over 200 servers already being monitored in our QA version of Enterprise Edition of Applications Manager. I wanted to configure thresholds to test scalabilty and how much load our EE can handle.
Now while configuring a threshold for response time for a specific server, I can select this option and have it applied for all my 200 servers in one go. Well it took us 6 SPs to put this easy way to do the configuration 
Well power users may say the ‘Alert Template‘ is also present. Yes, that too, make life even more easy while setting things up. But new users may not find it that easily.
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Few of our customers have a setup like - one DNS name is mapped to multiple physical servers (multiple ip addresses). Say for example, three machines 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 have same DNS name “cluster”. When you add one of the servers in Applications Manager, it will resolve the DNS name of the server (cluster) and add it. When you try to add the second server it will not get added.
Dont worry, follow the steps given below to add all three servers 
1) Configure local DNS mappings for these servers in the machine where Applications Manager is running.
For linux
Open the /etc/hosts file and add entries for these ipaddresses, as given below.
192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2 192.168.1.2
2) Then restart the Applications Manager.
3) If you have already added the server with dnsname (cluster), then delete the server.
4) Now add the server via ‘New Monitor’ form. While adding, click Advanced and select the add with ipaddress option. Now the server gets added with ipaddress and you can add all the three physical servers.
Susan
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