OpManager Review
- 1. OpManager Review by Tara Melville
- 2. ManageEngine OpManager is an integrated Network, System, Application and Datacenter monitoring software that offers advanced levels of fault and performance management functionalities. OpManager is an affordable, easy-touse, easy-to-install tool that works right out-of-the-box.
- 3. OpManager When you choose OpManager as your network monitoring software, you are buying a powerful network management tool that can auto-discover your entire network, group your devices into intuitive maps, monitor devices in real-time, alert instantaneously on failure and provide comprehensive reports and graphs.
- 4. Why Choose OpManager Network Monitoring -Detect, diagnose and resolve network performance issues before they turn into costly downtime. Infrastructure Monitoring -Improve availability and performance of your Server Infrastructure and gain in-depth visibility into Server problems Application Monitoring- Identify and resolve application performance issues before they impact end users. Help Desk & Asset Management - Detect, diagnose and resolve network performance issues before they turn into costly downtime. Improve availability and performance of your Server Infrastructure and gain in-depth visibility into Server problems. Identify and resolve application performance issues before they impact end users. Do it like the Pros. Improve IT service delivery with an integrated helpdesk
- 5. Top 10 Reasons to buy OpManager 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. System Requirements 200 MB 999 MB 32-Bit x86 Compatible 998Mhz and above Linux RedHat 7.x and above Debian 3.0 200 MB 999 MB 32-Bit x86 Compatible 998Mhz and above Windows 2000 Professional + SP4 2000/2003 Server XP Professional Disk space Main Memory Processor Platform
- 8. Server Monitoring OpManager's Server Monitoring Functionality offers Graphs and Reports for CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization of servers. Notification and alarm escalation to ensure high availability of devices. Services and Application Monitoring with Out of the Box support for Applications like MSSQL, Oracle and MS-Exchange. Support to monitor all devices in your network both SNMP and Non-SNMP supporting devices. Supports monitoring critical parameters like server traffic, response time etc.
- 10. Switch Monitoring OpManager's Switch Monitoring functionality offers Automatic discovery of switches in your network. Specialized switch map that gives a quick overview of the status of the Switch and the Switch Ports. Detailed Availability reports of Switch and Switch Ports. Port was traffic report and able to set thresholds based on port traffic and utilization. Real Time Switch Monitoring Tools like Switch Port Mapper and STP tool that give valuable information like List of devices connected to the Switch Ports , Port No, Priority, Port State, Status, Forward Transitions, etc.
- 12. Windows Event Log Monitoring With OpManager's Windows Event Log Monitoring functionality Secure your network from internal attacks. Monitor availability of your critical applications. Centrally manage Event Log through your network monitoring software itself.
- 14. More Features in OpManager Other than the above features, the latest OpManager Edition includes features like WMI-based MSSQL monitoring, SMS plugin for GSM modems, out-of-the-box support for monitoring HP-UX and IBM-AIX servers, etc.