1. Tideway Foundation for
Microsoft Operations
Manager 2007
Tideway Foundation™ at a Glance In order to monitor a service effectively,
Foundation maps business applications to System Center Operations Manager needs Benefits
their underlying physical and virtual to know the infrastructure components that
infrastructure, making it quick and easy to make up that service. For a simple service,
Simplifies creation of distributed
see exactly how your infrastructure Distributed Application Designer is used to
supports your business. Foundation build and update these models. However application models
automatically discovers the complete this method does not scale to large, • Hosts can be automatically
topology of your switches, servers, complex or rapidly changing services.
grouped into possible distributed
operating systems, software, business When changes occur in the infrastructure,
applications and dependencies – and distributed application models need to applications
updates it as often as you need. reflect these changes in order to show • Management Packs are
application health correctly.
automatically generated
The Live View of Distributed
Application Health Tideway Foundation simplifies the process
System Center Operations Manager of creating Operations Manager application Removes the time and effort of
provides a view of the health of an models by only requiring the characteristics
maintaining distributed application
organization’s IT services and infrastructure of an application to be described.
in a single console. It monitors thousands Foundation then spots applications with models
of events and service metrics across the IT those characteristics, correlates all the • Discovery runs as often as
environment and correlates them to distrib- infrastructure components, and
required
uted application models. It is a prerequisite automatically creates the appropriate
when upgrading your IT It is a prerequisite management packs. • Updated management packs
when extending from basic infrastructure can be created at any time
monitoring to service monitoring. The combination of Tideway Foundation
based on the latest
and Operations Manager provides peace
of mind that critical applications are being infrastructure data.
monitored correctly, while removing the
manual time and effort of maintaining
Ensures changes to infrastructure are
distributed application models.
automatically reflected in distributed
application models
• Changes to the servers and
infrastructure software are
automatically discovered
• Changes are reflected back to
Operations Manager in new
Management Packs
Agentless Mapping of software Creation of
discovery of IT and distributed Management Packs
virtual and physical business applications containing the
infrastructure distributed
components, across application models
Windows, UNIX and for direct import into
Linux. Operations Manager.
©2008 Tideway Systems, Inc. Page 1

2. Search, Visualization and Reporting
Tideway Foundation See it in Action
The Foundation search bar offers super-
Features fast, free text search of the entire data store On-line demos are available of Tideway
and takes you directly to the IT resource Foundation at:
Agentless Discovery that matters most to you in seconds. Foun-
Foundation Discovers virtual and physical dation visualizations graph application and www.tideway.com/downloads
servers, operating systems, software and infrastructure dependencies and makes
dependencies between them across the complex data center configurations easy to How to Try Foundation
entire IT estate. No agents means it’s easy understand
to deploy, and even finds the infrastructure Visit www.tideway.com/downloads to
you didn’t know was there. Automatic Management Pack download a fully working community
Creation
Application Mapping edition.
Foundation creates Management Packs
Foundation maps distributed applications automatically for direct import into System
using ‘patterns’. A single pattern can find Center Operations Manager. This makes How to Buy Foundation
multiple instances of an application running creating and maintaining distributed appli- Foundation is available from $8 per
in different parts of the IT estate. Patterns cation models a breeze.
require minimal effort to maintain compared server per month.
from
$8
to models tied to specific infrastructure
components.
per serv
er
per mon
th
UK Headquarters US Headquarters General Inquiries:
Tideway Systems Tideway Systems E. info@tideway.com
Anchor House, 307 5th Avenue, 2nd Floor W. www.tideway.com
15–19 Britten Street New York
London SW3 3TY NY 10016
+44 (0) 870 TIDEWAY +1 800 319 6832 Support Inquiries:
+44 (0) 870 843 3929 +1 646 884 9460 E. support@tideway.com
©2008 Tideway Systems, Inc. Page 2