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Happened to read this article in Computer World about how hotel reservations system crashed at MGM Mirage. It had caused check-in and check-out problems for thousands of guests in seven hotels in Las Vegas and elsewhere. “We haven’t narrowed down the problem to a specific cause,” the spokeswoman of MGM Mirage said. “I would be hesitant at this point to say it was the reservation system. The issue could lie in an underlying application or process.”

This is definitely a nightmare for the IT department of the hotel. I would definitely not like to be in such a soup.

You can see for yourselves..how important it is to have a reliable application performance monitoring solution in place to foresee such problems, monitor proactively, and be able to alert the IT department beforehand.

No prices for guessing why Wynn, Las Vegas is not affected !

Susan

We are glad to announce the release of Applications Manager 8 (build no. 8010).

The major highlight of this release is the support for monitoring SAP Servers. ManageEngine Applications Manager’s SAP monitor (Add-On) enables the customers to the reap the benefits of effective SAP monitoring. The availability and performance of complex SAP environment can be easily monitored from a centralized web console.

The other significant features are

* Availability & Performance Dashboards: In all Monitor details page, the webclient has been enhanced by adding separate availability & performance dashboards. Availability tab, gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days. Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days. List view enables you to perform bulk admin operations.

* DB2 Monitoring: TableSpace Status details of IBM DB2 can now be monitored using Applications Manager apart from the already existing connection statistics, performance statistics etc.

* Scalability of Reports enhanced: Performance of reports enhanced by segregating database.

* Support for monitoring .Net 2.0 applications added

Existing customers - take the service pack route to update to the latest

http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/applications_manager/service-packs.html

Important Note: since there are database schema changes for reports, you would be required to migrate your data. This is taken care by the Service Pack Tool itself. However based on the size of data in your environment, migration may take 10 minutes to over 5 hours. Hence, please plan accordingly. Also take a backup of your data before applying the service pack.

Download Full Build from

http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/applications_manager/download.html

Further, we would like to have your feedback about how you use Applications Manager to monitor your servers and applications. An insight into your usage would help us take the product to the next level. We would love to add it to Customer Testimonials.

Thanks n Regards,

Susan

In applications manager when you add a new application or database for monitoring, the server in which that application is present will be also automatically added for monitoring. Once the server is added, applications manager will automatically try to discover the other applications ( Apache, IIS, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SNMP and JMX application ) which are running in their corresponding default ports.

These automatically discovered servers and applications will be also taken for licensing count. If you do not want the automatically discovered applications, you can either delete them or unmanage them ( unmanaged monitors will not be taken for licensing count ). But if you delete the automatically discovered server, all the applications under that server will be also deleted. So unmanaging the server is a recommended option.

- Arun