Server Management

Is a bulk of your problems frequent downtime of customer–facing applications or slow and faulty employee–serving server resources?
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IT Managers need a server management tool that not just monitors server health 24/7, but one that also provides immediate insights into application-level and network–level availability and performance. OpManager is a powerful server management solution designed for performance & fault management over server infrastructure, providing also critical network and application insight to help IT Managers quickly identify problem spots.

Check out how OpManager automates and simplifies several routine server management tasks – right from monitoring to remotely troubleshooting and resolving of server problems.

• Complete, in-depth monitoring of server health
• Proactive notifications before failures occur
• Alerts and alarms on failures
• Remote visibility to server problems
• Diagnostic tests to dig into problems
• Solve problems remotely
• Comprehensive reports

OpManager for the Server Manager

OpManager automates and simplifies several routine server management tasks – right from monitoring to remotely troubleshooting and resolving of server problems. The following illustration splits server management into easily identifiable activities which OpManager assists in, using highly customizable features:

Complete, in–depth monitoring of server health
It is not just availability and response time of servers that needs to be monitored over the server infrastructure. Important resource parameters like CPU utilization, disk space, memory utilization, temperature, fan status etc. need to be kept track of to prevent last minute frustrations caused by resource crunches or server crashes. OpManager supports over 490 parameter monitors out-of-the-box: 80+ performance monitors, service monitors, event log monitors, URL monitors and hardware health monitors.

Proactive notifications before failures occur
Configure thresholds and alerts for every parameter monitored on your servers. Alerts come in the form of emails, text messages to your mobile phones (SMS), web alarms and you can even have a ticket logged into an integrated helpdesk system. OpManager also provides escalation rules for alerts to notify the right people in the organization to handle the right server problem according to their severities.

Alerts and alarms on failures
Server downtime crops up no matter how best you foresee and act upon warning signals. OpManager keeps you aware of any failure that happens on your servers eg any NIC that's down is immediately logged as a Windows Event which is monitored & sent as an alert. The notification mechanism is built with powerful customization options eg different time windows can be configured for a single alert enabling email alerts to be sent to you during office hours and text message alerts to be sent to your phone while you are not in office.

Remote visibility to server problems
Apart from live maps that show the various performance monitors for individual servers, OpManager also lets you connect to these machines via VNC so that you troubleshoot problem areas remotely. Provisions to add web links and other custom links to each server allow for easy, ready access to these servers.

Diagnostic tests to dig into problems
OpManager provides tests such as Ping and Traceroute to send packets to the troubled servers and check for availability of problem servers. Custom scripts can be configured to perform required actions when thresholds are violated e.g. stopping of a running service to check if healthy CPU utilization levels are restored.

Solve problems remotely
You can configure alerting profiles to automatically solve problems once they have been identified e.g. restart of a crashed service, restart of a server, automatic triggering of custom scripts on remote problem servers etc

Comprehensive reports
OpManager provides out-of-the-box reports on top N servers having high CPU/disk/memory utilization, free space, incoming and outgoing traffic, traffic utilization etc. Custom reports can be scheduled and emailed automatically to desired administrators and managers for offline analysis.

Server Monitoring Features

OpManager´s monitors pass on polled data to the fault and performance management engine which processes the monitored data to alert and perform other required actions as configured by the user. Monitors are present to find server availability, disk space, memory and CPU utilization, URL availability, service response times etc.. OpManager´s server monitoring functionalities include:

Screenshots

Server Snapshot

Threshold settings

Server fault notification mechanisms

Server performance reports

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Case Study

Challenge: To achieve 99.98% availability across 2 data centers with hundreds of servers hosting critical applications that serve students from over 45 countries. Or simply, running an every-hour-is-peak-hour IT business. Read more – OpManager helps online students learn without hassles.

Overviews

• Server Management (6 minutes)
• Business Centric IT Management (4 minutes)
• VMware Monitoring (4 Minutes)

How-to-demos

• Disk Space Utilization for SNMP Devices
• Creating Business Views
• Configuring Thresholds
• CPU, Memory for Non-SNMP Devices
• Configuring E-Mail Alerts
• Monitoring Windows Event logs
• Adding Custom SNMP Monitors

Customer Testimonials

"High availability of systems is critical for us and OpManager provides a superior solution as compared to other tools that I have used in the past. It provides critical fault and performance data from the network and makes my job much easier. It is an easy-to-use and cost-effective product that allows me to quickly navigate through event data, pinpoint specific problems and use that information to take corrective actions."

Venkat Penmetsa,
CustomerSat Inc.

"Since moving to OpManager, reboots, hangs and crashes have reduced so significantly that we now no longer experience such unplanned outages."

Paul Chan,
Infrastructure & Operations Manager

"Prior to the implementation of your software, I had to constantly pull one or more software developers off of projects with high ROI to pinpoint issues related to slowing performance on production programs. In the 9 months since I implemented OpManager, this has been reduced drastically. We can now monitor and record true performance benchmarks on our production servers, over multiple time frames. This benchmarking has allowed us to set notices for unusual performance and pinpoint when the deviation began. This allows us lead time to address performance issues before the customer ever notices them. I have reduced 15% waste of development time by 90%. Now less than 2% of my developer time is lost to emergency repair of performance issues."

Brian Blanchard,
Chief Operations Officer,
PROvalUSA.com

"OpManager is a perfect tool to showcase performance management, fault management and applications monitoring. We found it very user friendly and comprehensive in nature. It gives a complete picture of the Network, Systems, applications and services."

Achilles Santos Silva,
Junior Department of Computer Science
UNERJ - University Center of Jaragua of the South.

"OpManager is a real handy tool to manage not just the network devices but also your applications, servers and databases along with the swtiches and routers.
With the automation of a lot of reporting chores, which we earlier used to do manually, our team now spends their time more productively on capacity planning and migration activities than on routine network monitoring and reports generation.
Overall, OpManager gives the best of LAN and WAN management and at an affordable price point"

Naj Mickael,
IT Director Assistant,
Ports Petroleum