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.
Key Features added from Applications Manager 8 to Applications Manager 9
- 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
