Applications Manager Blogs

ManageEngine Applications Manager 7 is out in the open, waiting for your feedback.

Download:

http://appmanager.com/download.html

Existing Customers can apply the service pack, to upgrade to Release 7

http://appmanager.com/service-packs.html

Features that have been rolled in are

- Enterprise Edition - Support for large scale monitoring with a distributed setup

- Support for Windows Services monitoring

- Support for Remote Script monitoring

- Server Monitoring Enhancements (HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Solaris)

- Webclient and Server Performance Enhancements

- Webclient HTTPS support

- Improved Fault Management capabilities

- Support for Authenticated JMX Agents

- Improved multi-lingual support

- Other bug fixes and minor enhancements

Do download the product and give us your feedback.

Susan

We are going in full swing, to roll out our next major release Applications Manager 7. The highlight of this release is to unveil the Enterprise Edition.

Now what is this Enterprise Edition all about?

Enterprise Edition would help customers scale up their environment and monitor thousands of resources. You can configure independent Applications Manager installations to monitor various resources and then collectively view the data from all these independent Applications Manager installations (”Managed Server”) from a single server (”Admin Server”).

The team is busy validating the build; hope to let it out shortly

Susan

We often get queries on alternate ways of sending an SMS from our product. Currently it is possible only if your ISP supports sending you an sms via email.

I just happened to evaluate an easy to use email to SMS service. The service can be found at www.clickatell.com. The cost of sending an SMS depends on your country and service provider. Eg: for the US it could cost you around 5 cents per SMS sent while its lesser in countries like India. The pricing looks good for the value added.

We tried our product with this servce and it looks like a potential candidate to be used by our customers too. Here is what you need to do :

1) Register with www.clickatell.com. Buy some credits or use the free credits for testing.

2) You will get an api id, user name, password etc.

3) Now go to Applications Manager, select the ‘New Action’ > SMS Action.

4) In the text area provided, enter the below lines of text:

api_id:yourid

User:yourusername

password:yourpassword#

to:<enter your mobile number with country code, eg: 9198499999911>

text: $RCAMESSAGE

The $RCAMESSAGE is a tag that will ensure that you will get a relevant message from App Manager in the SMS.

The SMS action should be addressed to sms@messaging.clickatell.com email id.

5) That’s it ! Test it by clicking the ‘Execute’ icon in the ‘View Actions’ screen and you should get it before you finish counting till 15

Well the only glitch I have seen is that ‘the time the sms was received’ shown on my mobile is 3 hours back ! That’s probably because the sms is sent from a server in South Africa, but I am happy that I got the SMS in 15 seconds from when the alert was generated.

Hope you find it useful.

We had a potential customer who was not sure whether he had configured Applications Manager (AM) properly and whether he was viewing all data. They were viewing only partial WebLogic metrics, i.e availaiblity and response times only, by default. Due to a firewall issue, all data were not being shown.

Sometimes it is not obvious for customers. For this a good option is to compare with the data in our online demo or refer to our help documents. This will give an idea of what attributes are provided and make your evaluation successful for you and for us

One very important thing to note in AM is that normally you need to do very minimum configuration (just specify basic info like credentials) to get the performance metrics out-of-the-box.

Happy Monitoring !