VoIP Management
Customizing your IT Monitoring Environment: AppManager has Options
Each IT environment is unique. And while monitoring solutions often provide hundreds of agents to monitor different aspects of your environment (or take an agentless approach)—there is always a need to customize your monitoring solution to fit your IT environment. Sometimes, this is done through configuration changes. However, configuration changes usually only get you so…
Cloning AppManager Agents Using Virtualization Technologies
Customers often employ virtualization technologies (for example, Citrix and VMWare) to rapidly deploy servers with pre-installed software. NetIQ AppManager supports this practice, but requires a unique identity for each physical and virtual agent computer. Upon initial agent startup and communication with the management server, AppManager stores a unique AgentID in the Windows registry. Because AppManager…
Cipher Suite to use for Apache/Tomcat
All of the ciphers listed are Forward Secrecy (FS) enabled and are highly recommended. They work with pretty much everything you could possibly run into at…
Monitoring Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) through AppManager and Troubleshooting
Do you know that you can now monitor an Oracle Real Application Cluster through AppManager? Yes, you can monitor Oracle RAC elaborately through the module ‘AppManager for Oracle Unix 8.0’, that was released in October, 2016.
The Exchange is now online with AppManager
Did you read it correctly that Exchange is online with AppManager? Or are you curious to know more about what is the context I am talking about here? I encourage you to read more…
How AppManager can manage components in a SAAS cloud environment
Software as a service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted somewhere in the cloud. It is sometimes referred to as “on-demand software”. SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser….
Monitor Apache Kafka using AppManager
To monitor Apache Kafka using AppManager you need to use Kafka-Monitor and Java Application Server on Windows and UNIX module. Kafka-Monitor is a framework that allows you to monitor Kafka cluster using end-to-end pipelines to obtain a number of stats such as service availability. Kafka-Monitor and steps to configure it are available at GitHub at…
Monitoring ADFS using AppManager
I am often asked by my boss, hey can you tell me if AppManager is capable of monitoring ADFS? I used to tell him that yes it can be done, but there is no module for ADFS rather the base infrastructure that can be used for monitoring. This is an interesting scenario for times when…
Getting Clarity into your IT: What’s New with Operations Center 5.7?
It’s amazing how little clarity and visibility we have into the true state of any IT environment, despite getting more and more monitoring tools looking at them. Sometimes, a common cause for this is actually too many monitoring tools. Each one may be great for its specialized task, but they fail to communicate with each…
Tips to find SQL Server CPU Bottlenecks
Many times you may experience regular slowdowns on MS SQL database. There could be many reasons for CPU bottleneck on MS SQL Server but one of the main reasons for CPU bottlenecks is insufficient hardware resources. However, CPU utilization can usually be reduced by configuration changes and query tuning so you may like to avoid…