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Server Monitoring
Summary: Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions (NMS) for servers support iSeries AS400, Netware, Linux, Windows, and UNIX—all from a single, easy-to-use console. NMS monitors core server resources (CPU, memory, disk, event logs, counters, etc.) and enables centralized management of remote processes and services (i.e. automated and manual start/restart/stop). The solution also offers packaged monitoring for a wide variety of server configurations (i.e. Web, email, database, etc.). All server status information can be presented in real-time alarm dashboards, performance trend reports, and SLA compliance reports. |
Servers, and their configured application services, are the critical foundation on which the business operates. NMS monitors and reports on the status of server resources with, or without, a business service context. NMS '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:
- 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
NMS 'Service-centric' Server Monitoring
Each server configuration is unique and is dictated by the role the server must play in the business environment. NMS can easily adapt its availability and service quality measures to myriad server configurations.
Figure below: NMS 'Service-Centric' monitoring. NMS focuses health monitoring on core server resources and the unique business services that utilize those resources.
Real-time Availability and Performance Alerting
NMS easily displays server statistics in real-time alarm dashboards. When thresholds are crossed, alerts can be generated and displayed in active alert lists and graphic map elements, or forwarded to administrators via a wide variety of notification options (i.e. pager, cell, email).
Click the image below to see an example NMS 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 NMS:
Click the image below to see more server dashboard examples from our Nimsoft Dashboard Gallery:
Historical Performance Reporting
In addition to viewing server availability and performance in real time, NMS 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. NMS performance reports can be viewed in a Web browser 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 NMS, 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 NMS SLA point-and-click template, an intuitive Web-based SLA/SLO compliance report is generated.
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Nimsoft Server Monitoring—Unique Value Proposition for Service Providers
Server Monitoring for Managed Service Providers, ASPs, Hosting Providers
Nimsoft 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.
NMS features broad platform, application, and service support that allows MSPs and ASPs to promote a broader range of services, and as a result enjoy a broader prospective customer base. Nimsoft is also an ideal solution for co-location and server hosting providers.
NMS requires minimal effort for implementation and training, and will not require extensive ongoing maintenance.
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