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Which product from solar wind is good for Server and Application Management ?

Sujith

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Yann

Hi,

I would recommend you Application Performance Monitor.

Here is the online demo website: http://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/Orion/Apm/Summary.aspx

And the description of the product: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/application_monitor/index.aspx

You should install a trial version to test its features and ensure it provides what you need.

HTH,

Yann

Sujith

Do Application Performance Monitor can meet the following requirement?

Should offer service driven operations management of the IT environment
Should be able to manage distributed, heterogeneous systems - Windows & LINUX from a single management station.
Should have automated service discovery, policy deployment and actions to enable busy IT personnel to focus on more strategic initiatives
Should be highly scaleable
Should support Virtual platforms - Vmware and Microsoft Virtual Server
Should provide simplified service / process monitoring
Should provide in built correlation to reduce the number of alerts presented to the operators
Should provide out-of-the-box policies / templates for managing Windows & LINUX Operating systems
Should provide built-in historical reporting and near real-time graphing capabilities
Should provide out-of-the-box reporting and graph templates
The agent should be capable of storing events / data locally if communication to the management server is not possible due to some problem. This capability will help us avoid loosing critical events.
EMS must support the backup server concept, which enables switching management responsibility from one management center to another in case of system failure. This eliminates single points of failure in the management system
Enrich messages with incremental information and should allow customization of message attributes.
The solution should provide a single pane of glass for IT availability, event and performance management, providing a consolidated view across all system events.
Should provide console and a web browser interface that can be accessed from anywhere using industry-standard web browsers.
The ability to push deployment of agents and monitoring policies to a variety of heterogeneous platforms enabling fast and controlled roll out and maintenance
Integrated scheduled and operational maintenance modes for managed systems to prevent operations staff from seeing false alarms during authorized outages
Flexible architectures including support for high availability cluster architectures (Microsoft Cluster Server and Oracle Cluster)
Agents collect and analyze performance data from the operating system and installed applications and can use historical patterns to establish performance baselines.
Auditing and logging of operator activities
Both remote and manual agent deployment
Centralized operational monitoring solution
Secured communication between Management server and Managed nodes
High availability architecture aligned
EMS should have capability to use external database like SQL, Oracle
EMS should notify through alerts, events, email alerts, SMS etc
EMS should support policies such as WMI, Performance, SNMP, Application, Log files and Event logs
Centralized view: Agent-based and agent-less monitoring managed from one central console
To monitor the health, availability & performance of mission critical applications 24/7
Support for major DB vendors Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL for monitoring and management
Should monitors and reports on key operational services, ensuring that the health of the Active Directory is understood at all times - allowing for proactive action to be taken to maintain Service Level Agreements
Should monitors key Active Directory health indicators

• Data is consistent across all Domain Controllers

• Services, events, processes, and synchronizations are at acceptable performance levels

• Index and query activities for authentications and LDAP client sessions are occurring at acceptable levels

• Trust relationship status between domains is as expected

• Replication latency for both inter-site and intra-site purposes can be tracked

• Flexible Single Master Operations and consistency

• Directory Information Tree Monitoring

• DNS services and components

• Global Catalogs

• Sysvol

Manage IIS on all Windows versions
Manage Microsoft Enterprise servers: Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Sharepoint Portal Server
Should support Oracle releases Oracle 10g
Should support Oracle hosting on Microsoft Windows 2003
Oracle Monitoring

– Alert log messages such as data block corruptions, enqueue resources exceeded, internal errors, and I/O read/write failures

– Availability monitoring of the Oracle DB servers and related objects

– Process monitors for all the Oracle database processes (e.g., Listener, LGWR, DBWR, PMON, ARCH, SMON)

– Table and index performance, including number of tables cached and full table scan rate

– Rollback segment statistics, such as number of shrinks and percentage of waits to gets

– Parallel Query effectiveness, such as percent servers busy, query rate, and row id range scans

– Multi-Threaded Server performance, including percent servers waiting for requests and UGA memory in use

– SQL Query Monitoring, such as identifying top SQL statements in terms of number of fetches per execution, number of rows scanned per execution, elapsed time per execution, CPU time per execution, performing full table scan, and more

– Oracle Session Monitoring, such as identifying top Sessions in terms of having high number of hard parses, having high free buffer waits, having high latch-free wait, and suspended time is more than the specified threshold

– Oracle RAC Monitoring, such as identifying Data Blocks in terms of got corrupted during interconnect, got lost during interconnect

– Oracle Data Guard Monitoring, such as log transport services, log apply services, and standby destination errors

– Oracle Advanced Replication Monitoring, such as the number of failed/broken DBMS jobs, deferred transactions, and administrative requests.

SQL monitoring
Should monitors key operational activities and events to ensure always on availability, including:

– Caching information (cache hit %, cache free buffer %)

– CPU activity (SQL Server CPU utilization)

– Activity information, transaction data, deadlock information

– Lock Data (lock wait rate, lock wait rate by object, average wait per lock)

Performance Manager with MS SQL Server
Should monitors critical SQL Server resources, including:

– Server availability, Server virtual device size

– Server workload I/O, Server sessions

– Server transactions

Should Support Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 (32 bit, 64 bit, Itanium versions)
Reporting
Out of the box reporting templates for performance, availability, inventory, operation, virtualization and configuration
The reporting solution should be common to entire IT infrastructure
Should able to generate reports on predefined / customized hours.
Should be able to generate web-based reports both near real time and historical data for the systems
Device Performance – CPU and Memory utilized
Reports should be platform independent
Reports can be published in HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel formats.

Yann

It looks like you listed the features of APM :-).

All the points you listed match APM features except for the below one:

- Integrated scheduled and operational maintenance modes for managed systems to prevent operations staff from seeing false alarms during authorized outages

This however has been tracked as a feature request (for internal guys APM TT# 1394).

Some of the features are covered by Orion NPM on which APM has to be installed.

HTH,

Yann

bshopp

As Yann mentioned, you can download a free trial and check it out for yourself and also read additional feature information and check out our online demo, you can access all these details from this page - http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/application_monitor/