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AppManager in Action

Sign up now for AppManager in Action—a series of webinars presented by our product pros and designed specifically for our customers. These in-depth, interactive sessions will show you how to get the most out of your AppManager deployment.

Our expert team will deliver the technical tips and tricks to make your job easier and help you make your boss's day. Bring your toughest questions, our experts will be available for extensive Q&A.

Click on the links below to check out these sessions:

 

Predictive Performance Management with AppManager Performance Profiler

Are you struggling to deal with all the noise that your monitoring tools generate? Are you having trouble identifying which of your servers can accommodate additional workloads and which ones are really being stretched? What if your tools could learn the behavior of your environment, automatically reduce false alerts and more accurately predict incidents before they occur? What if you could easily understand workload distribution across your servers? You can!

Tune in to learn the key features and benefits of NetIQ's AppManager Performance Profiler (AMPP) such as:

Dynamic Thresholding and Higher Quality of Alerts

  • "Learns” normal systems behavior
  • Adjusts server and application monitoring thresholds automatically
  • Reduces false alerts generated by traditional static thresholds
  • Accurately predicts impending problems based on performance trends

Workload Management and Trend Reporting

  • Easily generates aggregate and snapshot views of server workload
  • Provides server workload history for capacity and virtualization planning
  • Understand how server behavior changes over time

 

 

Managing the Mixed Physical and Virtual Environment with NetIQ AppManager

If you haven't thought about virtualization yet, most likely, you will soon. There are several steps to ensuring a successful virtual environment. The first is identifying appropriate candidate servers and applications for virtualization that will produce the greatest return on infrastructure investments.

The second is seamlessly managing and monitoring not only the virtual infrastructure, but also the operating systems and applications that now reside on virtual machines.

Learn to learn more about the capabilities of NetIQ's VMware management solution, such as:

  • Management of a mixed physical and virtual environment from a single console view
  • Monitoring the entire virtual infrastructure stack including the performance and availability of the ESX Server and Virtual Center
  • ESX Server hardware host level monitoring and system health
  • Out-of-the box integration with NetIQ Analysis Center for trending and analytics
  • Capacity management via historical performance monitoring

 

Expand Your Visibility with NetIQ AppManager 7 Service Maps

Service map views in AppManager 7 automatically change with your environment. Servers are added or moved from service maps representing groups so that operational teams are always working with the most current information, freeing administrators from having to manually maintain these maps and making operations teams more efficient.

Whether you're experienced with service maps in AppManager Control Center and are interested in leveraging the new features, or brand new to service maps, join NetIQ for this web seminar to learn critical information and best practices for implementing service maps such as:

  • Why utilize service maps?
  • What makes AppManager service maps unique?
  • What's new in AppManager 7 service maps?
  • How to create service maps
  • How to compare the end-user experience with component health
  • How to embed views to navigate service map tiers

 

Gaining Full Advantage of Deployment Automation in NetIQ AppManager 7

Utilizing AppManager 7's convenient wizard to create rules, automated discovery and deployment is a no-hassle process. AppManager 7 can be configured to perform:

  • Automated detection of new machines and applications
  • Automated remote deployment of agents and modules
  • Rapid response to changing environments (every five minutes by default)
  • Firewall-friendly deployments
  • Designated deployment during change windows
  • Granular control over how monitoring will be configured by machine
  • Notifications for success or failure of deployments

Once configured, deployment automation:

  • Significantly reduces cost of deploying and upgrading agents
  • Reduces monitoring exposure when changes occur, ensuring accurate visibility across the environment
  • Reaches into the "nooks and crannies" of the managed environment to install agents, so monitoring policy is enforced

Find out how AppManager 7's deployment automation feature can help you manage your complex enterprise in the next AppManager in Action.

 

NetIQ AppManager 7

Introducing NetIQ AppManager 7

Leveraging AppManager’s 11 years of innovation and leadership, AppManager 7 delivers the productivity and visibility our enterprise customers demand. AppManager 7 boosts administrator productivity and increases management visibility to ensure the end to end performance and trusted availability of IT systems and services.

Join NetIQ’s product management team for this informative webinar as they unveil AppManager 7 features such as:

  • Automated deployment
  • Dynamic service mapping
  • Flexible monitoring policies
  • Simple integration with external tools
  • End-to-end monitoring
  • Centralized management of Windows, UNIX and Linux-based environments

Tune in to learn how AppManager 7 can manage your complex environment and ask our experts your toughest service management questions. Expect more from enterprise management software. Expect AppManager 7.

 

Why Your Systems Management Solution Deserves a Second Look

As complexity increases and processes mature, IT organizations should routinely assess their existing implementation to identify available solutions. This ensures that organizations are achieving the best support for their environment's unique requirements and challenges, while helping them make smart management decisions.

During this session, we'll outline some of the most important aspects to consider when deciding whether your existing Systems Management solution meets your current and future needs. In this webinar, we will discuss:

  • Defining the challenges of today's IT environment including 64 bit, virtualization, and distributed applications
  • Assessing future needs for scale and complexity by understanding server and application workload
  • Proactive vs. reactive systems management
  • Enterprise scale reporting and cross-platform solutions
  • Bridging the gap between Systems Management and Service Management

 

What's New with NetIQ Analysis Center 2.5

Faced with increasingly complex infrastructures, companies struggle to process the deluge of performance- and security-related IT management data. Reporting and analysis can help you quickly understand issues impacting performance and availability.

During this interactive webinar, you'll learn how NetIQ Analysis Center enables you to:

  • Provide improved service levels utilizing consolidated systems and security management data
  • Improve alignment between IT and business with personalized dashboards and reports in Microsoft SharePoint
  • Enable effective operations management by leveraging the information that helps you accurately secure and provision servers
  • Provide deeper knowledge of IT infrastructure health with on-demand trend and predictive analysis

Learn how IT operations and security management teams can now quickly understand issues affecting business-critical services. Register now and become more efficient and effective.

 

Demystifying the SNMP Toolkit

NetIQ's AppManager Suite is currently managing many of your business services-from network devices to enterprise applications. But what about extending AppManager to allow you to address legacy or out-of-band devices that need service assurance, but are not currently being centrally monitored If you have a basic working knowledge of SNMP and MIBs, you could be taking advantage of the powerful capabilities of the AppManager SNMP toolkit.

Learn how to monitor and manage SNMP-enabled devices, OS' and legacy systems that you previously were not incorporating. You'll hear how this NetIQ product can help you get more value from your existing AppManager investment and improve service levels for additional devices.

During this interactive webinar, you'll learn how to leverage the SNMP Toolkit to:

  • Develop a foundation-level monitoring capability for servers, systems and legacy OS'
  • Extend AppManager to monitor and manage a broad range of devices
  • Get, Set, & Trap SNMP parameters on disparate systems

 

AppManager Performance Profiler and the US Air Force

NetIQ's AppManager Suite is already managing your business services-from network devices to enterprise applications. But what about optimizing AppManager to more quickly diagnose problems, automate your threshold administration processes and eliminate false alerts?

During this interactive webinar, you'll hear how the U.S. Air Force leveraged AppManager Performance Profiler to:
  • Maximize resource utilization and increase service levels
  • Improve IT service levels through proactive problem identification and resolution
  • Reduce operational costs

 

AppManager Tips & Tricks

AppManager is arguably one of the easiest enterprise management products to install and use and you can make it even easier. Join our experts and learn:

  • Console navigation tips
  • Working with jobs, events and data
  • General tips to improve AppManager efficiency

 

AppManager: Reporting in Your VoIP Environment

New reporting packages enhance the ability of AppManager Analysis Center so you can easily create reports and analyze VoIP data, such as server availability, call activity trends, predictions for IP phone calls, real-time usage and performance, and signaling server and VGMC call quality.

Our VoIP experts will be on the line to discuss the following topics - and more:

  • New capacity planning, operational and service level reports
  • Distributing reports in user-friendly formats
  • Accessing these new reports

 

AppManager's Best Practice Approach for Managing IP Telephony

Is your network ready to handle VoIP trafficHow can you measure call qualityTo keep users happy, you need consistent availability and quality of your VoIP solution. This means managing phone-to-phone quality, network applications and those ever-important converged voice and data solutions. Join us to discover how AppManager can bring all of this together. Our VoIP experts will be on the line to discuss the following topics - and more:

  • Assessing VoIP configuration, diagnostics and network utilization
  • Best practices for monitoring IP telephony servers, VoIP networks and converged applications
  • How to maintain call quality and deliver performance reporting

 

Manage Any Device or Application with the AppManager SNMP Toolkit

AppManager is already managing your business services. And, you like the out-of-the-box functionality for everything from network devices to enterprise applications. But, what about the various black-box devices, custom applications and network systems that are part of your business serviceAs you are aware, many such systems include a generic SNMP management interface. By using AppManager's SNMP Toolkit, you can include status and performance information as part of your centralized management solution. First, we offer a primer on the most common SNMP concepts. Then find out how easy it can be to:

  • Interactively build management for a new device or server
  • Use the SNMP Toolkit and MIB browser to identify meaningful performance and diagnostic metrics
  • Understand when SNMP traps should also flow into a network management system

 

Introducing AppManager 6.0

AppManager 6.0 offers many new enhancements, including improved performance, scalability, security, and monitoring. In this session, we'll introduce you to:

  • Performance improvements that have approximately doubled the management capabilities of the Management Server (MS)
  • Enhancements to Knowledge Scripts (KSs) that provide additional management capabilities and monitoring flexibility
  • Improved security, hardened default settings and more detailed ways to define roles for different types of AppManager users

 

Advanced Scalability & Management with AppManager Control Center

AppManager Control Center is a highly scalable new AppManager console. Today, Control Center complements AppManager Operator Console but eventually, it will be the primary AppManager interface. Join us to learn how with Control Center 1.0, you can:

  • Build management groups with customized views with improved flexibility for grouping servers and devices by political, geographic or functional attributes
  • Visualize and manage IT resource relationships through intuitive Service Map Views
  • Manage AppManager jobs, events, monitoring policies, security and more across multiple AppManager repositories (QDBs)
  • Export list information and other details to a variety of formats, including Excel, HTML, XML, or TXT

 

Troubleshooting Exchange & Active Directory with AppManager Diagnostic Console

AppManager Diagnostic Console (AMDC) has been rewritten and updated to provide deeper troubleshooting capability to the subject matter expert. The Diagnostic Console has expanded coverage to provide detailed analysis of Windows, Exchange and Active Directory environments. Join this live audiocast to discover how you can use the AM Diagnostic Console to:

  • Gain unexpected insights into system configuration and performance
  • Speed up the diagnostic and troubleshooting process for those unexpected problems with Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory
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  • Extend the Diagnostic Console information by accessing AppManager agent(s)

 

Extending AppManager to Manage Any Application

NetIQ offers AppManager modules that support many popular applications, but if you have other applications that you'd like to extend AppManager to also manage, join us for this session. We'll introduce you to:

  • Knowledge Script (KS) fundamentals - How KSs are structured and what makes them easily extensible
  • Basic monitoring - What you can do with basic KSs like NT_EventLog and minimal customization
  • Advanced customization tools - Sripting languages available through the AppManager Developer Console

 

Advanced Reporting with AppManager

If you're already using basic charts and reports in AppManager and want to move the "next level" of advanced reporting with AppManager, join us for this session where we'll cover:

  • Customizing AppManager base reporting scripts
  • The best strategy for archiving and aggregating report data
  • Advanced reporting with Analysis Center and a preview of Analysis Center 2.0

 

Service Management with AppManager

Service management capabilities in AppManager continue to expand with every release. In this session, we'll drill-down into a new AppManager component, Control Center and specifically its Service Map Viewer capability. Service Map Views provide better insight into the service-level impact of operational problems by providing a picture of managed objects and their status. This session will cover:

  • Creating Service Map Views with AppManager
  • Customizing the map view with your own BMP view
  • How objects in Service Map Viewer relate to objects in the Operator Console

 

Using AppManager for J2EE Operational Management

Is your organization utilizing BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere or another J2EE Java application serverAre you trying to use developer tools to manage themIf so, you might be experiencing some significant management challenges. Join us for a session on using AppManager for J2EE operational management in which we'll cover:

  • How application servers fit into a Web infrastructure environment
  • Differences between monitoring J2EE application servers in development and in production
  • Practical tips for managing J2EE application servers with AppManager
  • Key parameters for BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere

 

AppManager Reporting and Analysis Capabilities

Learn how to turn AppManager data into actionable information using AppManager's reporting and analysis capabilities. Join us to learn how to:

  • Determine what data to gather and at what intervals
  • Use the inventory and application-info reports
  • Understand management, troubleshooting and trend analysis reports
  • Customize reports for your environment

 

Monitoring Switches, Routers and Gateways with AppManager

If you have switches, routers or gateways from leading vendors such as Cisco, Nortel, Extreme Networks or Alcatel, find out how you can use the AppManager for Network Devices module to monitor them. Learn how easy it is to monitor:

  • ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) link utilization, bandwidth and errors
  • Chassis resources: CPU, RAM, flash, backplane, power supplies, fans, temperature sensors and voltage sensors
  • Frame relay link utilization, bandwidth and errors
  • FXO (foreign exchange office) signal errors and port utilization

 

AppManager Cross-Platform Monitoring

Need to monitor more than just Windows systems Find out how AppManager can help you monitor all of your essential distributed platforms - UNIX, Linux and Windows - all from a single console. Learn how easy it is to:

  • Quickly and easily manage, diagnose and analyze the performance and availability of your distributed systems, applications and server infrastructure
  • Provide the in-depth expertise you need to consolidate your management systems

 

Advanced Microsoft Exchange Management

Monitoring Microsoft Exchange continues to be a core strength of AppManager. In this session, we'll look at how AppManager and another NetIQ product, AppAnalyzer, can help you go beyond simply monitoring Exchange for availability. Learn how easy it is to:

  • Perform advanced Exchange troubleshooting and diagnostics
  • Understand which AppManager data combinations provide the most reporting value
  • Gain additional Service Level Reporting and metrics via NetIQ's AppAnalyzer

 

End the Blame Game: Monitoring End-User Response Time

Explore the benefits of monitoring and managing availability from the server AND the end-user's perspective. Learn how easy it is to:

  • Ensure high service levels for users of your web site, SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory or other applications and databases — regardless of where they're located.
  • Save time, money and eliminate the blame game by identifying whether applications, servers or the network is causing performance issues.
  • Unite user experience data with server and application performance data to show the enterprise how well you are supporting the business.

 

Monitoring Active Directory For Powerful Results

Discover the benefits of effectively monitoring and managing Active Directory. Ensure that your Active Directory is performing to specified service levels.

Learn how easy it is to:

  • Manage Active Directory from a central, easy-to-use console
  • Be alerted to an Active Directory event before it becomes visible to the user community
  • Produce comprehensive Service Level Reporting

 

The ROI of Monitoring Your Content Security Infrastructure

Discover the benefits of effectively monitoring and managing your content security infrastructure. Learn how easy it is to:

  • Enhance uptime and availability through real-time monitoring of your email, web and instant messaging environment
  • Reduce the cost of administration through centralized management of these resources
  • Measure content security ROI by using intuitive web-based reports that quantify the cost savings generated from content security/anti-spam deployments

 

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