It is times like these that IT teams truly appreciate a network fault management system having an integrated helpdesk:
How many of you have known it the minute your network monitor loses network connectivity? Or worse, how many of you knew through end user complaints (I’m sure in no mild words!)?
OpManager now sends an SMS to your mobile phone when the hosting server loses network connectivity. You also get an SMS alert when the OpManager server regains connectivity. Set-up is very simple - just key in your mobile number when configuring the SMS server in the Admin tab. Here's the list of supported modems for SMS notifications. 
SMS on losing connectivity: “OpManager has detected that it has lost network connectivity and has suspended all monitoring. Monitoring will be automatically resumed once connectivity is established.”
SMS on re-establishing connectivity: “Network connectivity reestablished. Restarting Network monitoring services”
PS: You can also have two OpManager installations set-up in a fail-over
configuration to ensure an always-monitored network environment. Check out OpManager's Network Monitoring Failover and Failback
Happy New Year everybody! Team OpManager wishes you all success and happiness throughout 2009.
We're all ready to talk network management after that hiatus on our blogs. Truth is we're suddenly finding ourselves doing a lot of work n a lot less of talk. Is that related to the recession? The papers, television, internet, radio - everyone's onto the recession. I can't wait for it all to get over - the pretty faces on TV look so sad when presenting the news!
Well, 2008 has been a good year for OpManager. A year that's made us put in the extra sweat to bring out additions in the product, in line with our goal of becoming THE complete IT infrastructure monitoring platform. The Distributed Edition of OpManager, now with VMware monitoring included, found customers within a month of product launch. We pushed ourselves in the network monitoring front by adding traffic flows monitoring and VoIP performance monitoring. 2009 is even going to see greater efforts spent in making the network admin's life a whole lot easier.
I'll sign off for now with a bit on OpManager 8 that's coming out very soon. OpManager 8 is sure to make network management a piece of cake with a number of options to customize the product to your monitoring needs. You just have to get a hold of it when it's out.
Thank you 2008. And 2009, here we come!
2008 - Highlights:
ManageEngine Euro Roadshow
Sept 8th - October 3rd.
Denmark - Sweden - France - Italy - Germany - Portugal - Poland - UK
We at ManageEngine are always game for opportunities that allow us to meet with the people who care about IT. This time round we thought we'd do something big to spend quality time with our customers, users, partners and any soul who cares about Networks, servers, applications, systems, the works. We would like to welcome you all to our ManageEngine Euro Roadshow conducted with the help of our partners throughout Europe from the 8th of September to October the third.
Check out the dates here: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/agenda.html
Our speakers: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/speakers.html
You can register here: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/euroroadshow/registration.html
We very look forward to meeting you!
Todd Weiss of ComputerWorld has an interesting article about how people are “on mission” at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Consultants, CEOs, CIOs, IT Managers, Administrators - everyone’s looking for applications, services and systems that deliver more and more, at less cost. Todd quotes Adam Talbot, a Linux and Unix administrator with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif.:
“I’m always looking for the next (big) thing… If I can find a solution that beats all of our stuff, costs less and is more applicable to our environment, then that’s what I’m looking for.”
With all the new features and add-ons OpManager’s been going through, this excerpt from Todd’s article truly encourages us 
Talbot now uses OpManager from AdventNet Inc. after moving away four months ago from competing applications from the Nagios open-source project and GroundWork Open Source. While neither of those products had major shortcomings, Talbot wants something that offers more monitoring services for various operating systems, including SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).
“We’re always looking for more for less,” Talbot said.
Thanks very much Talbot and Todd. We’ll continue giving you more in our network monitoring software, OpManager!
Are you new to the critical, downtime-equals-revenue lost world of network management? Are you overwhelmed with where to begin, what to monitor, how to manage, who to notify, how to troubleshoot?
Would you like to know how best to use ManageEngine OpManager right from its installation? Want to know what are the maintenance practices, the upgrade procedures & benefits of integrating with other ManageEngine solutions?
We’ve planned a training programme for those who’d like to have that crucial head-start in effectively using OpManager. The ManageEngine training team begins classroom training sessions at the AdventNet office in Austin, Texas from the 14th of this month. The details:
Classroom training venue:
Adventnet
901 South Mopac Expressway
Barton Oaks Plaza One, Suite 300
Austin, TX 78746
Training schedule: - if you can't make it on the 14th, we've got other sessions scheduled(next is on 28th at Pleasanton)
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/training/training_schedule.html
OpManager training agenda:
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/training/opmanager_training.pdf
Training sign-up:
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/training/signup.html
Sign-up for the 2-day classroom training session and we’ll be happy to help you with more details.
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