What’s new in OpManager v9?

New functionality in OpManager makes your everyday network monitoring and management easy, scalable and more powerful.

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  IT Workflow Automation
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  Hyper-V Monitoring
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  Custom Script Monitoring
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  REST API & more...

Here is a quick overview of the new functionality in OpManager v9.

IT Workflow Automation

Administrators have preset routine tasks to perform either during network faults or it could be an on-going maintenance task. These first level troubleshooting steps and repetitive laborious maintenance tasks can now be orchestrated and automated through our powerful IT workflow engine. This feature helps you

• Resolve issues faster and Reduced MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve)
• Inherit your IT infrastructure best practices and ensure structured/ proven methods to handle incidents and problems
• Streamline execution and increase efficiency
• Avoid human errors and substantially reduce operational costs

Intuitive drag and drop GUI for creating IT workflow with out-of-the-box actions and checks &
Screen showing options to trigger workflow on a scheduled basis or on the network faults

The intuitive GUI of IT workflow engine is

• Easy to manage with 100% web-based management console
• Easy to build with out-of-the-box checks⁄ actions to construct adaptable workflow rules

Hyper-V Monitoring

In addition to the existing VMware ESX monitoring feature, you can now monitor Microsoft Hyper-V. Similar to VMware monitoring, OpManager monitors over 70 deep metrics on the availability and performance of Hyper-V hosts and guests.

Microsoft HyperV monitoring - Host dashboard

Custom Script Monitoring

Bring your network monitoring scripts together under the OpManager management console. Go beyond SNMP or WMI protocols and dive deep into your device and application performance. Set threshold and get alerted during abnormal situations by leveraging OpManager’s fault management functionality.

A list view of script monitoring templates

REST API The REST API Key generation screen Those using third party help desk or network management solution can now integrate OpManager with those systems by invoking OpManager’s REST API. To start with the REST API supports operations such as Add device, Add notification profile to a device, Add device to a business view or Google maps, Add Event for non-monitored parameters as well as monitored parameters, Delete device and Add new user. More at http://api.opmanager.com

All new enhanced GUI Revamped top level tabs Navigate quickly to the problematic device or to the area of your interest based on your IT infrastructure role and responsibility with all new improved top level tabs. In addition the improved page-loading speed and quick links to information on how to go about doing some tasks with option to submit instant feedback, provide a smooth user experience. Switch an OpManager standalone instance on-the-fly to a remote monitoring probe. When your needs grow to monitor over 500 devices or 10,000 interfaces, you can convert one OpManager standalone instance to a remote monitoring probe on-the-fly. This capability helps you scale your network visibility as and when you need it. Enterprise Edition: Probe Failover Support (MS SQL backend only) Ensure 24/7 network monitoring with the help of high availability of remote site monitoring probes through hot standby engine; introducing OpManager enterprise edition’s probe failover support.