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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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.