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SNAPPiMON
- New Features in Version 3.7
SNAPPiMON Version 3.7comes with several new features that increase scalability, reduce memory & CPU footprint and increase choice of deployment platforms. A summary of new features is listed below.
| Reworked architecture |
Reduces memory and CPU footprint and lowers TCO. Increases scalability to handle thousands of elements including efficient, distributed polling with reduced network overhead. |
| Enhanced correlation and polling |
Support for multiple threshold levels for Key Performance Indicators. Co-relation interval is now configurable per polling template – allows better, fine grained control. Enhanced correlation analysis reports for multiple KPIs – allows easier visual correlation of a KPI across multiple elements |
| Enhanced monitoring support. |
Enhanced monitoring support for Cisco VOIP infrastructure including Cisco Call Manager (CCM), Cisco Unity, Cisco Voice Gateway. New Monitoring support for iSeries i5/OS (AS/400) & MySQL 4.x/5.x Databases. |
| Custom Expression Support |
Ability to create custom, complex expressions based on other key performance indicators, constants, etc for server & application monitoring.
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| Extensible event notification |
Ability to relay availability & performance events as SNMP traps to external SNMP Trap Listeners and EMS Event Aggregators.
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| Enhanced Topology Views |
New tree topology view called "Object View" - allows easier navigation and grouping by element type.Ability to set up automated Topology Slide Shows |
| Enhanced User authentication |
Support for Microsoft® ADS and LDAP based user authentication – allows for simplified user management. Support for flexible, secure password policies for native users.
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| More platform support for deployment |
In addition to Oracle, MS-SQL databases, SNAPPiMON can now be deployed on IBM DB2 v9.5. In addition to Windows XP/2003 and Red Hat Linux, Solaris 9, it can be deployed on servers running Solaris 10 OS |
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- Features in Version 3.6
| Enhanced Service Provider Support |
Support for multiple tenancy in a Service Provider scenario.
Ability to deploy multiple instance on same server with data and process separation. |
| Open Interfaces for extending Monitoring Capabilities |
Synthetic Transaction Monitor with an ability to execute external scripts, programs, etc.
Ability to create new metrics on the fly including reporting, escalations, etc. |
| New Monitoring Support |
Monitoring support for IBM MQ Series, Apache Tomcat 5.x, Microsoft.NET applications,
Microsoft - DNS, ADS and DHCP Servers. Printer Monitoring. |
| Security Monitoring |
On Demand reporting for Cisco PIX logs, Checkpoint logs, Cisco IDS logs.
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| VOIP Monitoring |
Support for monitoring Voice Infrastructure via Cisco IPSLA for Jitter, Latency, Echo, Response time, etc.
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| Cisco Pack Monitoring |
Monitoring Support for Cisco IPSec, Cisco Ping MIB. |
| Other Enhancements |
Do not Poll Calendar to manage predefined downtime/maintenance,
Ability to take automatic actions on receipt SNMP Traps, Monitoring enhancements for Exchange 2003, AIX 5.x.
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| Helpdesk Integration |
Bidirectional Incident Management integration with coDesk. |
| Traffic Analysis Integration |
Ability to report on Netflow and Sniffer data for application and traffic profiling. |
| Deployment Support |
Ability to use Oracle 10g or MS SQL 2005 as database. Ability to deploy SNAPPiMON on Solaris OS. |
| Self Monitoring Capabilities |
Built in self monitoring & alerting capabilities via Watch Dog component. Alerts administrators if polling for any element is failing, or if any SNAPPiMON process is down, etc. |
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- Features in Version 3.5
| Fine Grained Access Control |
Ability to create new roles and assign users, assign navigation specific permissions
for roles and assign module specific permissions for roles |
| Automated Action Engine |
Automated action engine provides the ability to execute custom scripts,
programs, shell/batch files when an alarm is generated.
Alarms can be generated for multiple events including Node Up, Node Down, KPI breaches,
SNMP traps, etc. Scripts can take corrective or preventive actions; e.g disabling login access,
dynamically increasing resources available or raise Help Desk tickets.
The engine is based on a high performance and scalable architecture that can support multiple simultaneous events. Also,
actions can be executed by distributed Action Servers. |
| Real-Time Event Console |
Single console to view ALL events (Availability,
Performance Threshold breaches, etc). This is useful for Administrator to
monitor the entire IT infrastructure on a single screen. |
| Enhanced Scalability and Flexibility |
SNAPPiMON is a modular framework that supports very high scalability.
The components include the SNAPPiMON Manager; the RDBMS based database engine,
one or more Proxy agents and plug-ins based on elements being monitored.
All the components can be implemented on a single system for a small enterprise and
the Proxy agents can be distributed for very large scalability.
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| Top N / Bottom N - Attention Dashboard |
Multiple dashboards for specific element type (e.g. Databases, Routers, etc)
can be created by end user. Allows administrators to focus on top/bottom N elements of a
specific type.
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| Support for SNMP V3 |
Supports SNMP V3 MIBS and custom expressions. Includes discovery of SNMP V3 enabled devices |
| Log File Monitoring |
Allows monitoring of log files for ANY application, database, etc., with the ability to monitor
text/ASCII log files for specific tokens and the ability to include and exclude tokens from monitoring.
Email notifications and historical reporting when token match occurs.
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| New Plug-in support |
Availability and performance monitoring for Websphere and DB2. |
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