Applications Manager 8.6 Released!
Applications Manager 8.6 is released with enhanced report generation and new features being added. These new features include
Monitor and Manage AS400 iSeries Server
With the release of Applications Manager 8.6, you can now monitor the availability and performance IBM AS400 iSeries server. Through Applications Manager, you can not only monitor the status of the server, jobs running in the server, monitor spool’s metrics but also be able execute non-interactive commands through the Admin console. This provides you the ability to be able to identify any performance related issue quickly and troubleshoot it.
AS400 Monitoring
AS400 Server Status
AS400 Jobs Overview
As400 Admin console
Monitor SAP Components
With 8.6 version, you can monitor the performance of vairous SAP components like SAP Business Intelligence (BI), SAP Customer Relation Manager (CRM), SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) etc using CCMS through Applications Manager web console.
You can now monitor each components
This allows user to effectively monitor these ERP services.
SAP CCMS Overview
Generate Reports Faster
Applications Manager has now faster and more initiative report section which allows user to view reports and be able to generate them quickly. This report tab allows user view by various types thus giving better understanding to the number of monitors he/she configured using Applications Manager. The user can also view individual report of each monitor configured which helps the user to understand the performance trend of a particular monitor. Enhanced 7/30 reports also help the user in various ways to analyze and decipher the results quickly.
Enhanced 7-30 reports
The heat charts provide a distinct understanding between the same types of monitors configured with similar threshold values. The statistical report allows user to understand the end-results quickly and allows him/her to take action quickly. The day of week and hour of day reports provide hour-by-hour data thus providing an in-depth analysis of the data that is being gathered. With such improvements, the user can now monitor any number of IT resources effortlessly.
So why don’t you go ahead and give Applications Manager 8.6 a try? You might see the difference!
For those who are already using Applications Manager, upgrade your software by applying the service pack.
Going back to 1970s, typewriter was used for some form of office automation. This was followed by other technologies, and later the PC era helped improve communication between users to a great extent. Some of these software improvements were also called groupware as they helped collaboration and quicker decision making, which in turn helped improve the bottomline. These collaborative capabilities were achieved, not only because Enterprise Applications matured in its capability, but also because Enterprise IT was able to deliver it, when needed. This hence elevated the contribution of IT to the business.
Over the last decade or so, IT Management too has evolved. From merely monitoring the network and servers to application monitoring, to end user experience monitoring and fault management to performance management to Business Services Management.
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There are lots of point products that can help manage the Network, Servers or Applications etc. Each of these market segments too have matured to a level where the IT Team finds real value.
Now how can you improve your existing investments ? Invest in products and solutions that have a vision to provide an integrated management solution which help different groups in IT organizations to collaborate towards a common end goal - Delivering better Business Applications. Empower your IT Management capabilities by investing in products and technologies that integrate.
ManageEngine today can help you gain more value with mature tools that also integrate to provide greater value.
One of the recent announcements from ManageEngine is the integration of the various Network Monitoring capabilities by ManageEngine OpManager that spans across Fault and Performance Management of Core network equipment to monitoring VOIP and Network Change and Configuration Management.
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Similarly early this year, the integration of ManageEngine Applications Manager and ManageEngine OpManager via the Network Monitoring connector would help IT Teams to have a better perspective of the servers, databases, application servers and the Network.
With this integrated Integrated Server, Application and Network Monitoring ManageEngine Applications Manager will provide availability and performance monitoring for applications and databases, while ManageEngine OpManager provides the same for the network. This information is then provided in a single dashboard for the IT Administrators and Managers to make better informed decisions.
Well, is It not time to do to IT what IT did to Your business ?
Checkout the new AddOns released, to ensure your business gets more value for the buck, especially in the times of a slowing economy.
Gibu
Twitter : @Gibu_
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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