Well today’s post is about ManageEngine PasswordManager Pro which is a related product from ManageEngine. This product helps manage application / server passwords. Below is a second person,- an IT admin’s account.
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Hi,
I am Patrick. Your typical IT administrator. I am responsible for managing mission-critical business applications like app servers, databases, web services etc. in my network. And I use ManageEngine Applications Manager to monitor and manage them and ensure quality of service. With the growth of our application infrastructure by the day, my call of duty has gone beyond just managing the status of these applications. Can you take a quick guess what else? Well…It is not just about performance and availability anymore, but about managing passwords for these applications and securing them as well!
Now here are some of the challenges I face day to day. And as fellow IT administrators, I am sure you do too in your respective organizations. Admin passwords of applications are usually stored in plain text in files and are rarely changed, leaving them unprotected and posing a security threat. Even passwords that you store in Applications Manager to connect to the monitors for collecting management data , though secure, are rarely changed. How do I ensure that these passwords are shared efficiently and managed periodically, such that these ‘keys to my kingdom’ never land or remain in unsafe hands?
Sounds like a familiar problem in hand? Indeed it does. You see, balancing application monitoring and application password security is tough. But what keeps me up at night is the thought that one security breach as a result, is bad news for the company. If only I had a software that could help me manage my passwords with ease and secure my application infrastructure.
And then there was good news! I discovered ManageEngine PasswordManager Pro (PMP), which made all I wished for in managing my administrative passwords, now possible. PMP is secure and robust application that offers:
- a centralized repository for all your administrative passwords
- ways to securely provide and revoke access to these passwords and more…
Ofcourse if ManageEngine Applications Manager could also easily know these password changes, there is nothing like it. For now I can live with that. And with PasswordManager Pro my headaches are now fewer as I have all my password management needs covered!
Patrick
As always for ManageEngine products, you can checkout the online demo of ManageEngine PasswordManager Pro and checkout the website for more info .
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There has been several key upgrades that has been introduced in the current version. This post will be about focusing on some of those key features mentioned in current release. As the old saying goes “a good picture is worth a thousand words” we decided to release some screenshots of those features and let the screenshots speak for itself. If you have not yet upgraded to the new build, you can download it here and if you would like to more about these features click here.
Some of the major upgrades that we will be discussing in the next couple of posts:
- Availability and Health Reports - Critical and History Snapshots that have been added
- Outage Comparison Reports
- Availability Trend Reports
- Ability to configure and integrate business hours
- Network Interface Monitoring in WMI mode added
- Sybase Support added
There is going to be a couple more posts with some good screenshots with regards to these updates for your viewing. Some of major upgrades that were done in 8.2 were availability and health reports including critical snapshot, and history reports. Applications Manager generates reports that help you to analyze the performance of your Monitor Group. The reporting function enables you to analyze your servers/applications/services even across months and all this even without having to make any additional configuration changes. These reports depicts the availability, health, response time and alerts of the application over a specified period of time. In addition, critical and current snapshot are also provided to project a better understanding of the health and availability of applications.
Availability and Health reports of a banking application integrated with business hour
Outage comparison report integrated with business hour
Current snapshot report for the customer portal business service
Critical snapshot report for the customer portal business service
The current snapshot report provides you in-depth details such as monitor type, availability of that particular monitor including its health and most importantly a message column which indicates any information regarding the health and availability of the monitor in question. In Critical snapshot report, in addition to the above mentioned details “Monitor Group” details is also included.
Availability Trend report for Store application
More screenshots to follow…
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The key is JSON Feeds!
You can integrate Applications Manager’s data in your intranet web page. We provide the Monitor Group and Monitor status in the form of JSON feeds (lightweight computer data interchange format, used as a simple alternative to using XML for asynchronously transmitting structured information between client and server).
To see the monitor group status, you can access this URL
<http://<AppManagerHostname>:<port>/jsonfeed.do?method=createMonitorGroupFeed>
To see the monitor status, you can access this URL
<http://<AppManagerHostname>:<port>/jsonfeed.do?method=createMonitorFeed>
For eg., a Sample file <jsonsample.html> that is used to parse the JSON data, is added to <AppManager_Home>/working/html directory.
Changes to be done in the <jsonsample.html>:
Change the hostname and port in the URL in first line in the sample file to suit your environment.
<script src=”http://< appmanagerhostname>:<port>/jsonfeed.do?method=createMonitorGroupFeed”>
If you want to view the monitor group status (Coming through JSON Feed), you can invoke URL -
http://<appmanagerhost>:<port>/html/ jsonsample.html
Susan
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