Application Monitoring

NimBUS for Microsoft Internet Information Services Monitoring

Maximizing Web Server Availability and Performance

Over the years, corporate Web sites have been called upon to deliver increasingly vital business services, services that build business, support customers, manage supply chains, and much more. Web servers are at the core of these vital services, and no Web server is relied upon more than Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server, which powers more Fortune 1000 Web sites than any other Web server.

But how do the enterprises and service providers that rely on these servers ensure optimal performance and uptime? How do they effectively monitor the levels of performance that end users actually are experiencing, at this minute? How can administrators quickly pinpoint performance issues and address them before they affect critical business transactions?

The NimBUS for Microsoft IIS Monitoring Probe provides a powerful solution for efficiently monitoring all IIS server activity throughout an organization. The NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe offers administrators the tools they need to proactively monitor and manage their IIS servers, so they can ensure optimal performance and reliability.

In addition, the NimBUS for Microsoft IIS Monitoring probe is fully integrated with Nimsoft’s service level management suite, enabling enterprises and services providers to manage their entire infrastructure with a single solution.

Monitors

• All activity within Microsoft IIS Web server environments, including multiple servers and instances, among both local and remote servers.
• Comprehensive server monitoring of all vital checkpoints across system, Web services, IIS, and ASP categories.

Features

• Centralized views of all vital Microsoft IIS performance data 
• Point and click access to high level server status and detailed checkpoint information
• Intuitive installation and seamless integration

Benefits

• Improved performance and uptime. Proactive monitoring and alerting accelerates identification of performance issues—enabling response before end user productivity is affected.
• Enhanced resource optimization. Centralized, cohesive view of performance delivers insights into opportunities for resource optimization.
• SLA compliance. Instant alerts and real-time dashboards notify service managers in advance of SLA compliance breaches.

Fast, intuitive integration and insights—The NimBUS for Microsoft IIS monitoring probe features an intuitive user interface that makes initial configuration fast and efficient. Using this interface, administrators can quickly define which IIS Web servers are to be centrally monitored, and how they’re to be monitored.

Through the same intuitive interface, administrators can access graphical views that provide at-a-glance real-time status indicators, or they can be tailored to provide historical performance analysis of any Microsoft IIS health metric.

Comprehensive Microsoft IIS server monitoring—With the NimBUS probe, organizations gain an extensive view of their entire Microsoft IIS Web server infrastructure, whether it is comprised of a single Web server at headquarters or a number of servers spread over many offices and geographies. The probe can supervise Microsoft IIS request execution times, and pinpoint hanging scripts and resources.

Further, the NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe can monitor a full range of server statistics, ensuring the health and performance of each Web server is tracked in a comprehensive fashion. The probe can be configured to monitor all critical Microsoft IIS checkpoints, which are mechanisms for gauging the health and performance of specific subsystems within the Microsoft IIS web server. The Nimsoft for Microsoft IIS probe can monitor checkpoints in these categories: system, Web services, IIS, and ASP. In addition, with the NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe, it is easy to define custom checkpoints, which can include additional IIS Web services, such as FTP and SNMP.

Following is complete list of the checkpoints that the NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe can monitor:

Turn monitoring data into fast, useful insights—The NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe offers powerful, intuitive access to information, enabling administrators to more easily spot trends and gain early warnings about potential problems.

Because of the NimBUS probe’s centralized view of all Microsoft IIS Web servers, and its sophisticated graphical user interface, administrators can quickly get an easy-to-scan snapshot of the real-time status of the entire IIS infrastructure. Further, through this centralized console, administrators can simply double-click on the icon of any Web server being monitored, and be able to drill down to get graphs and status indicators on any of the specific server indicators that are being monitored.

The NimBUS for Microsoft IIS probe offers convenient access to a range of reports:

• IIS checkpoint reports, which provide instant access to historical trend data for a specific checkpoint. These reports can provide views of the past 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours, and can display minimum, maximum, and average data values
• IIS server request reports, which detail Web site activity and requests that the IIS server is servicing, based on any selected time intervals—whether by hour, day, or month.
• IIS server summary reports, which summarize top server statistics, including HTTP response time and cache hits and misses for any specified time intervals.

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