ManageEngine OpManager - Network Monitoring Software.ppt; Assignment

1. Enterprise Network Management– CIS 516 November 16, 2007 Donald Lee Thomas Assignment Week 7 © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks

2. ManageEngine OpManager - Network Monitoring Software ManageEngine® OpManager is a complete network monitoring software that offers combined WAN, Server, Applications monitoring with integrated help desk, asset management & WAN traffic analysis functionality. OpManager automates several network monitoring tasks and removes the complexity associated with network management. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks ManageEngine OpManager is a comprehensive network monitoring software that provides the network administrators with an integrated console for managing routers, firewalls, servers, switches, and printers. OpManager offers extensive fault management and performance management functionality. It provides a lot of out-of-the-box graphs and reports, which give a wealth of information to the network administrators about the health of their networks, servers and applications

3. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks What is OpManager? OpManager is a network monitoring software that can automatically discover your network, group your devices into intuitive maps, monitor devices in real-time and alert instantaneously on failure. It serves as a complete network monitoring solution by providing complete fault and performance functionality across your WAN and LAN infrastructure. Auto Discovery OpManager automatically discovers your Routers, Switches, Servers, Printers and other networked devices. OpManager speeds up the discovery process by building up a list of possibly active devices by reading ARP tables, but at the same time does a complete ping sweep to ensure that none of the devices are left undetected. OpManager also discovers services (like HTTP etc.) running on a device. It normally takes under 2 minutes for OpManager to discover a Class C network. Mapping your devices OpManager automatically creates infrastructure maps for your Servers, Routers, Printers, Switches and Firewalls. It also enables users to create business views to group devices as per business needs. Real-time Network Monitoring OpManager performs network monitoring in 3 different ways Continuous status polling of devices and services to check for availability Continuous monitoring of critical device health parameters using SNMP, WMI or Telnet / SSH with support for thresholds Listening of SNMP traps from devices Read more about the Network Monitoring features that OpManager offers. Instantaneous Alerts As soon as OpManager detects a problem it can notify administrators via email or SMS. OpManager's network monitoring functionality also includes running of external programs, system commands or playing an audio file. More on Alerting & Fault Monitoring Comprehensive Reporting Using OpManager you can generate device level or network level reports to analyze availability, response times, network traffic, interface utilization or application response time. More on Reporting & Performance Management

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5. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Network Monitoring OpManager discovers switches, routers and firewalls in the network during the network discovery automatically and monitors the critical parameters such as the traffic rate, error and discards rate, buffer hits and misses and so on. You can get the availability report of each port and interface. Using the Switch Port Mapper tool, you can get the list of devices connected to each port of the switch. You can also create your own views and draw the diagram to virtually represent your network and get the availability of the interfaces visually.

7. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Applications and Services Monitoring OpManager discovers and actively monitors services and applications running in the servers. Out-of-the-box support is provided for services such as Web, HTTPS, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, Telnet, MySQL, MS-Exchange, SMTP, POP3, WebLogic, etc., and applications such as MSSQL, MS Exchange, Oracle and Lotus. Special add-ons are available for monitoring Exchange 2000/2003 and Active Directory Services.

9. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Performance Management OpManager measures the performance of the network hardware and software, such as the bandwidth, memory, disk and CPU utilization, and service response time by collecting data at regular intervals. These data are provided in the form of reports and graphs to the administrators. The threshold limits can be configured to pro-actively monitor the critical parameters in the managed devices

10. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks CPU, Memory & Disk Monitoring CPU, Memory and Disk Space are the most critical resources of any server and if over-utilized can cause the server or the application to crash. Hence monitoring of CPU, memory and disk utilization is essential to ensure the health and performance of your critical servers. OpManager can monitor CPU, Memory and Disk Space utilization for any SNMP device using the Host Resources MIB and for non-SNMP devices using WMI, Telnet or OpenSSH.

12. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Top 10 Reasons to Buy OpManager – Part 1 1. Affordable Management With its low price and ease of deployment, OpManager enables a very affordable alternative to manage complex enterprise networks. OpManager requires standard operating hardware, supports multiple operating systems and can be used without requiring extensive training. 2. Integrated Network, Systems and Applications Monitoring OpManager offers an integrated view of your entire network by providing a single view of your networks, systems and applications. Instead of relying on multiple individual management silos for information, now you can have one tool to give you the complete picture. 3. Combined Business and Infrastructure Visibility Only OpManager gives you combined business and infrastructure visibility at the same time. What this means is when a failure occurs, you not only know which piece of your infrastructure has failed but also which part of your business is affected. 4. Effective Usage of IT Personnel OpManager performs intelligent event-alarm correlation and presents only the most relevant alarms to the operator. IT personnel can now spend their time on fixing issues rather than trying to figure out what went wrong. 5. Proactive Monitoring OpManager enables proactive monitoring with thresholds using which you can identify network / service degradations early and prevent failures. This helps you to stop fire fighting and move on to more proactive monitoring.

13. © 2007, AdventNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Top 10 Reasons to Buy OpManager – Part 1 6. Multi-vendor Management OpManager offers multi-vendor management and it is very easy to integrate new devices that you may purchase at a later date using open standards such as SNMP 7. Reduce Operational Costs OpManager reduces cost by simplifying management tasks. It moves the day-to-day management and troubleshooting tasks to the operator level thereby freeing your highly skilled network administrators to work on other strategic projects. 8. Reduce Training Costs OpManager reduces training costs by providing a simple and highly user-friendly user interface. Also the easy-to-use point and click installation package includes an embedded relational database and a web-server. It saves the administrator the hassles of working with multiple packages. 9. Multi-platform Support OpManager offers the flexibility to choose the network computer that is best suited for running OpManager. It is available for Windows and Linux. 10. Completely Web-based OpManager is completely web-based offering unparalleled flexibility in accessing the network management server from anywhere.