NetIQ plans to release Aegis for AppManager, which measures, automates and governs IT operations and processes, later this year. Ironically, NetIQ actually licensed technology to Microsoft in 1999 that helped Microsoft create MOM. analysts ranked NetIQ a second-tier player in last year’s $390 million global server management market, along with Microsoft, Compuware Corp.

In a March teleconference, Forrester Research Inc.

AppManager 7 also has a dashboard that gives 'visibility from a single pane of glass,' he said. The new version of AppManager also boasts autodiscovery, so that it can monitor for servers across a set IP range and autodeploy them as they come online, Green said. 'If your entire screen is filling up with red because of minor events, that doesn’t do you a whole lot of good,' Green said. Travis Green, the company's chief service management strategist, says AppManager is as easy to deploy as SCOM is better at managing mixed environments that include Linux, Unix and Windows servers and boasts the same services (rather than server) orientation that Microsoft is starting to deliver in its System Center products, including SCOM 2007, as part of its Dynamic Systems Initiative.įor instance, AppManager 7’s service map now lets users more finely tune which events cause nodes to light up as trouble spots, which show in red.

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