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Companies with applications running on UNIX,
AIX and Linux servers or logical partitions can improve the availability and
performance of their business services using the new dedicated ThinAgents of
VISUAL Message Center, Tango/04's IT operations monitoring and Business
Service Management solution.
Tango/04 Computing Group, a leading developer of software solutions for
Systems Management, Security Auditing, Operations Monitoring and Business
Service Management (BSM), today released a set of new Linux, AIX, Sun
Solaris and Syslog ThinAgents, providing VISUAL Message Center with new
monitoring capabilities that complement its existing coverage of iSeries and
Windows servers; Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server databases, and network
components.
VISUAL Message Center incorporates new ThinAgents for monitoring servers
running Linux and UNIX operating systems. In the enterprise views the color
of the icons helps the user instantly assess the operating health state of
every infrastructure component.
"IT infrastructures are increasingly heterogeneous, and as a result, there
is a growing need to monitor all the diverse technological components that
support business services from a single management console," says Raul
Cristian Aguirre, CEO of Tango/04 Computing Group. "VISUAL Message Center
helps companies consolidate their IT infrastructure management to ensure the
integrity, availability and optimal performance of their business services
across servers and databases."
The new Linux and AIX ThinAgents can be easily configured to monitor any
number of servers - or logical partitions of IBM iSeries systems - in
agent-less mode. UNIX servers with operating systems other than AIX or Sun
Solaris can be monitored using the Syslog ThinAgent. An HP-UX ThinAgent will
be released soon.
Easy to use ThinAgents
The new Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris and Syslog ThinAgents can capture any data
that can be retrieved using a command, including file system usage, load
average, CPU usage, jobs with abusive CPU consumption, number of processes,
utilization of physical and virtual memory, processes per user and virtual
memory (swap).
UNIX servers other than AIX or Sun Solaris can be monitored with the Syslog
ThinAgent, which reads UDP syslog messages from UNIX servers. The collected
events are sent to VISUAL Message Center's SmartConsole to be integrated in
an enterprise view or in any custom dashboard.
VISUAL Message Center's AIX FileSystem ThinAgent allows control of the use
of IBM AIX file systems, consolidating its indicators in the same console
that monitors the rest of your infrastructure.
The Syslog ThinAgent can also monitor any UDP Syslog enabled network
devices. Enhanced monitoring of network availability and components can be
implemented using VISUAL Message Center's ThinAgents for network monitoring,
including POP3, SMTP, SNMP, FTP, Web applications availability, response
time and transaction time. Furthermore, the Applications Agent module can
retrieve and process plain text logs with any format.
All ThinAgents use Tango/04's ThinkServer monitoring technology, which
shares a common logic and data source to manage a variety of agents in order
to minimize resource usage and improve scalability. ThinAgents can run in
agent-less mode for simplified deployment and further resource savings. They
come preconfigured according to best systems monitoring practices.
Simplifying IT Operations Monitoring
VISUAL Message Center provides IT directors and operators with an intuitive
graphical interface, SmartConsole, where all the monitored events are
filtered and prioritized. Real-time dashboards can be configured very easily
and now can show the health status of AIX, UNIX and Linux servers and
partitions. These dashboards can provide different levels of visualization,
from detailed technical information up to high-level Business Views for
every IT platform, location or business service.
The SmartConsole can react to predefined events by executing automated
action sets, or can alert operators by email or SMS when their intervention
is required.
VISUAL Message Center's Reporting System can easily generate historical
reports in any standard format. For UNIX, AIX and Linux systems, hundreds of
reports and charts are available for performance, compliance, events,
systems usage, security, errors, users and much more. They are useful for
demonstrating compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA), IT best
practices and regulations, as well as for justifying upgrades.
The operating health of your Sun Microsystems machines running the Solaris
operating system can also be monitored using VISUAL Message Center. The
state indicators can easily be integrated into Business Views and Enterprise
Views.
About Tango/04 Computing Group
Tango/04 Computing Group is one of the leading developers of software
solutions for Systems Management, Security, Operations Monitoring and
Business Service Management (BSM). Tango/04 software helps companies
maintain the operating health of all their business processes, improve their
service levels, increase their productivity, and reduce costs through
intelligent management of their IT infrastructure.
Tango/04 has more than a thousand customers who are served by over 35
authorized Business Partners around the world. Customers include ABN Amro,
ABX Logistics, ADT, Aviva, Banque de Luxembourg, Bacardi, BankBoston, Banque
Rotschild, becom Informatiesystemen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bridgestone
Firestone, BSCH, Capgemini, CelTel, Certegy, Coca-Cola, Carrefour, Dole
Fresh Fruit, EDS, FootLocker, Fortis Bank Commercial Finance, Fritz Meyer,
Genesis MetLife, Gucci, Henry Schein, ING, Lafarge, L'Oréal, Miele,
Manpower, Nationale Nederlanden, Nike, Norge Gruppen, Pierre Fabre, Prada,
Repsol YPF, Shell, Sligro, Stratapult, Telmex, Universal Music, and Zurich
Insurance.
About Tango/04 VISUAL Message Center
VISUAL Message Center, Tango/04's suite of products for the management of IT
infrastructure, provides a convenient technological foundation for the
development of Business Service Management (BSM) strategies. Its advanced
monitoring, automation, alert, visualization, reporting and auditing
functions consolidate and simplify the management of multiple systems,
applications, networks, devices and all the components of an organization's
IT infrastructure. More information is available at
http://www.tango04.com/products/vmc
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