If you're curious as to what we're working on...

The APM team is busy at work on a number of highly requested enhancements:

Scalability and Performance Enhancements
Dynamic Service Level Groups
- Ability to select multiple Orion objects (statically or using a dynamic query) even of different types (e.g. nodes, interfaces, applications, groups) and group them into a container that can be used to visualize status and for configuring "service level" alerts
- Ability to see Groups at the summary and details view levels
- Ability to set Group level status as worst (worst status rolls up), mixed (yellow unless all objects are green, or all or red), or best (best status rolls up for high avail/hot backup scenarios)
- Ability to alert on Group status
Basic Root Cause Analysis (based on Group concept above)
Ease of Deployment Enhancements
FIPS compatibility
- Ability to run on a Windows system with the FIPS GPO enabled
VMware infrastructure monitoring
- Visibility into the vCenter, DataCenter, and Cluster levels (in addition to ESX host and VM guest visibility already provided)
- New VMWare component monitor providing the ability to monitor almost any statistic available via the VMWare API.
Ability to change the namespace used to pull counters in WMI monitor (i.e. allow selection of more than just CIMv2)
Ability to include applications in calculation of node child status. So if node is up, but application on that device is down, you will see status child status icon indicating there is a problem.
Ability to install APM on a separate database from NPM and run in "standalone" mode
RPC alternative to WMI for Windows Services performance counters.

PLEASE NOTE: We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release. We are working on a number of other smaller features in parallel. If you have comments or questions on any of these items (e.g. how would it work?) or would like to be included in a preview demo, please let us know!

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FormerMember

Hi Chris,

This stuff about about grouping items togther sounds interesting. Will it work similarly to the application designer in SCOM 2007?

We use the network atlas to a limited extent to visually represent a multiple-server service but it proves to be a massive job to create the maps and keep them up to date. Will there be a mechanism to have external dependencies set directly to each object so that the service diagrams can be created automatically?

Thanks,

Chris.

Questionario

all sounds very interesting (except of FIPS which I dont even know :P ), looking forward for its release (which I guess wont be before october/november)

Questionario

could really use those dynamic service level groups now... lol

would make things easier for me, too bad I will still have to wait for this. more work for me :[

chris.lapoint

It sounds like you'd like to participate in the APM 4.0 beta I'll send a note to you offline about this.

FormerMember

Can i be on the beta please?

infosat

Any chance on getting in on the Beta also?

byrona

I am very interested in the VMWare stuff as well as the Service Level Groups. Look forward to seeing more stuff on this soon!

ckristofek

Chris,

I am very interested in being able to run the toolset with FIPS GPO enabled.
Do you have a time frame?

Thanks,
Chuck

mavturner

Chuck,

Toolset supports running with the FIPS GPO enabled as of version 10.6. See this post if you have any questions or would like clarification.

Mav

byrona

Chris

What specific VMWare monitoring might we expect to see in a new version of APM?

I ask because we are finding that Orion isn't currently providing us with the VMWare environment details at the level that we need. I am really excited to see if the new stuff will help out so I don't have to go find another product for this need, would much prefer to stick with Orion for this.

macnugetz

Hey Byron,

The new VMware monitoring functionality gives you visibility into your entire VMware infrastructure. Where previously Orion only gave you visibility into your ESX hosts and the VMs on those hosts, it now provides visibility into your ESX clusters, datacenters, and virtual centers.

NPM and APM are currently in Release Candidate phase; if you'd like to get an early peek at the Release Candidate let me know and I'll set you up.

-Craig

Questionario

Is the RC near public release yet?

macnugetz

Questionario, email me your SWID and I'll get you set up.

-Craig

dsouhe

We just got V3.5 and heard that V4.0 is out ...when would you be releasing it to us ?

as a cutomer ?

Questionario

4.0 is currently in release candidate status, general availability will be announced but I am sure if you are on active maintenance and request macnugetz (Craig McDonald, APM Product Manager) to provide you the release candidate, they will let you test it as well (if your company allows you to install release candidates in production environments).

Daveyd

"New VMWare component monitor providing the ability to monitor almost any statistic available via the VMWare API."

Has this feature been added in APM 4.0?

We own Storage Profiler and Virtual Profiler, as well as APM. Is there a preference to use on or the other to monitor all VMware API stats?

jeff.stewart

Yes, that feature is in APM 4.

Daveyd

So, since I own both Storage Profiler and VM/Physical Profiler and APM, will APM provide me with every VMware API statistic as Profiler?

Daveyd

If so, what are scenerios where one would be perferred over the other?

saw_bah

For the HTTPS monitor user experience, can you make the credential for monitoring be username and password combo or user certificate (client side certificate). It would be nice if the authentication and authorization credentials offered to the server could be either means. Set up the credentials so APM can import certs and offer them to servers expecting client side cert for authentication and authorization. If you can't do this, then make error codes acceptable as up. So if we his a web that requires client certificates, we get a 403.7 error. If we got that error, then we know that the website is up, if we get some other error, then we know something else is wrong. So if error exceptions could be a means for monitoring, then we theoretically could monitor these types of websites. If you could do both, I thin that would be a really big feather in your cap.

DAPHNE

HI. I HAVE YOU A QUESTION. CAN I MONITOR GPOs IN A DOMAIN WITH ANY TEMPLATE OF THE APM?