NimBUS for Server Monitoring

Servers, and their configured application services, are the critical foundation on which the business operates. NimBUS monitors and reports on the status of server resources with, or without, a business service context. NimBUS 'service-centric' server monitoring helps IT gain a business service perspective from the multitude of server platforms they have deployed.

Primary Features:

• Monitors the following server subsystems and components
  • CPU, memory, disk
  • Print jobs and queues
  • Event logs, message queues, and screens
  • Statistics and performance counters
  • Processes, services, jobs and NLMs
  • Directory and file system
  • Network interfaces
• Centrally monitors heterogeneous server environments - platform support includes:
  • AS400
  • Linux
  • Netware
  • UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Tru64)
  • Windows (Win98 and upwards)
  • VMware
• Packaged monitoring for a wide variety of server configurations, sample listing includes:
  • Web servers
  • Directory servers
  • Email servers
  • Database servers
  • Applications servers
  • Terminal servers

Additional Features:

• Extremely quick and easy to implement
• Lightweight and modular, install just what is needed
• Customizable realtime alarm dashboards
• Long and short term historical performance reporting
• SLA-based monitoring and compliance reporting
• Highly scalable to support hundreds to thousands of servers
• Alert escalation and flexible notification options, i.e. email, sms, cell, pager, etc.
• TCP/IP based server monitoring provides reliable data transport
• Monitors 100's of server health metrics from a single look-and-feel interface
• Centralized management of application processes and services, i.e. start/restart/stop

NimBUS 'Service-centric' Server Monitoring

Each server configuration is unique and is dictated by the role the server must play in the business environment; NimBUS server monitoring solutions can easily adapt its availability and service quality measures for a myriad of server configurations.

Figure below: NimBUS 'Service-Centric' monitoring - NimBUS focuses health monitoring on core server resources and the unique business services which utilize those resources.

Realtime Availability and Performance Alerting

NimBUS easily displays server statistics in realtime alarm dashboards. When thresholds are crossed, alerts can be generated and displayed in NimBUS active alert lists and graphic map elements, or forwarded to a wide variety of notification options (i.e. pager, cell, email).

Click the image below to see an example NimBUS Server Dashboard - the dashboard view shows a multitude of server types - all interconnected with color-coded status indicators supporting drill down for additional details. Also, note the server-to-server response time measurements performed by NimBUS:

Click the image below to see more server dashboard examples from our NimBUS Dashboard Gallery:

Historical Performance Reporting

In addition to viewing server availability and performance in realtime, NimBUS allows for long term archival and reporting of server performance data. This level of visibility is key for proactive capacity planning, load balancing, and preemptive problem resolution for degrading server conditions - 100s of server data points can be archived. NimBUS performance reports can be viewed in a web browser and or a Windows client.

Click the image below to see a live server performance report - this report is showing CPU and Memory utilization for our in-house SQL Server - click the filter menu across the top of the live report to see daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly views:

SQL Server Resource Utilization

SLA Compliance Reporting

Using NimBUS Service Level Manager, it is possible to define SLAs specific to server/service configurations ('service-centric' server monitoring). Server components can be defined and monitored in the context of business services deployed on top of base server configurations. Immediately upon completion of the SLA definition using the NimBUS SLA point-and-click template, an intuitive web-based SLA/SLO compliance report is generated.

NimBUS Server Monitoring - Unique Value Proposition for Service Providers

Server Monitoring for Managed Service Providers, ASPs, Hosting Providers

NimBUS makes it possible for Service Providers to offer a high functionality, cost effective server monitoring solution that is priced to fit customer's budgetary requirements and does not compromise monitoring functionality.

NimBUS broad platform support combined with broad application/service support allows MSPs, ASPs, etc. to promote monitoring for a broader range of server/service platforms, the result is a broader prospective customer base. NimBUS is also an ideal solution for colocation and server hosting providers.

The NimBUS for Server Monitoring solution requires minimal effort for implementation, training, and will not require extensive ongoing maintenance.

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