Applications Manager Product Features include

* Business Applications
* Discover Applications
* Monitoring Capabilities
* Health and Availability
* Reports and Trend Analysis
* Detect, Notify and Correct Problems
* Root Cause Analysis
* Web Client

Business Applications
Create a logical view of your heterogeneous IT infrastructure by grouping resources, such as applications, servers, and systems in your network. We call the logical view a 'Business Application' and each of the resources in the network as 'Monitor Instances'. This gives you an integrated view for effective monitoring and management.

Discover Applications
Using Applications Manager, you can discover network resources (applications and services) running in a particular host or machine, in a range in your network, or in the complete network itself. This manual discovery is made easy using a discovery configuration form.

Monitoring Capabilities
Applications Manager facilitates monitoring of the following Monitor Templates:

Custom-Built Applications
Custom Java Applications or other User Applications that have management information exposed via SNMP and JMX.
JMX MBean resources that Applications Manager monitors are AdventNet JMX Agent (RMI Adapter), MX4J RMI Connector (JMX 1.2), WebLogic JMX, and JBoss JMX.

Web Page Monitoring
* URL Monitoring
* URL Sequence Monitoring

Application Servers
* WebLogic 6.1, 7.x, 8.x
* WebSphere 5.x
* Tomcat 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
* JBoss 3.2.1

Database Servers
* Oracle 8.x
* MySQL 3.23.x, 4.x

Network Services
* Mail Server
* Web Server
* SNMP Agents
* RMI Adapter
* Other Services (FTP, Telnet, and TCP Port)

Systems
* Windows 2000, NT, 2003, and XP
* Linux
* Solaris

Health and Availability
Monitor health and availability of your network resources. Monitor over 30 critical parameters such as response time, resource availability, utilization, etc. of your network resources.

Health is an attribute that indicates the quality of service of a monitor instance and Availability is the attribute that determines whether a monitor instance is up or down and is available for use.

Reports and Trend Analysis
Analyze trends, identify bottlenecks, and plan ahead for your IT environment requirements from the real-time graphs and comprehensive reports that are generated.

The graphs and reports can be viewed on a custom-defined hour, daily, weekly, and monthly basis and can be generated quickly. They also provide visibility into Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) for each application/service.

Detect, Notify, and Correct Problems
Detect problems before your users encounter them, by receiving alerts. These alerts can be generated by setting Thresholds. The alert mechanism provides color-coded alert depiction and option to add operator notes.

The Alerts view provides immediate visibility into errors and other critical problems occurring in the network. You can further drill-down this view for more insight into the alerts.

When an error is detected, it can be notified immediately. Notifications are possible through e-mails, SMS, or by sending SNMP Traps to third-party consoles, such as HP OV and CA Unicenter. You can also take corrective actions for a problem by executing custom action scripts.

Root Cause Analysis
Get into the details of critical alerts in your environment using the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) feature. This saves time spent on analyzing problems reported.

Web Client
Applications Manager provides an easy-to-use Web Client which allows you to access monitored data and perform administrative operations. All tasks are web-based. It comes with a layout which makes your interaction with the UI all the more interesting.

Business Benefits

Holistic View of Business Environment
Applications Manager provides a unified view of your entire business environment spectrum and also real-time visibility into it. This makes management and monitoring of IT resources easy and eliminates overhead costs of maintaining different management tools.

Eliminate Downtime, Be Available All the Time
Detect problems such as service outages and response time bottlenecks before they affect end users. This saves you from strained customer relationships.

No more fire fighting! Problems can be quickly fixed as the root cause is identified through intelligent event processing. Guarantee your customers with unaffected services.

Trends and Forecasts
Monitor the trends, future-proof today's investment. Define your baselines with the comprehensive management reporting mechanism and graphs.

Smart Budgeting
Compliment yourself with
* newer revenues
* rapid Return On Investments (ROI)
* lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
* quick and apt investment decisions
* improved service-level performance
* minimal upkeep

Resource Optimization
Applications Manager gives a quick view of the load conditions and capacity utilizations to help plan optimal utilization of hardware and software resources.

Employee Productivity
Deployment of the product is almost effortless and no formal training is required to get you started. This increases IT personnel and operator productivity. The operators can spend time resolving issues rather than tracing root cause of problems. Ensures a time saving work flow.