The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) features dashboards that provide users with the real-time status of IT and critical business servicesSophisticated, Real-Time Views of IT—and Business Services

The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) features dashboards that provide users with the real-time status of IT and critical business services.

Dashboards can be tailored to specific users, groups, and roles, and enable users to see practically any type of data in a single view—whether help desk call statistics, application performance metrics, IT resource utilization, and much more.

Dashboards are Web-enabled for remote accessibility and have access control features to ensure dashboards are only accessed by authorized users.



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Nimsoft Business Dashboard Gallery

The screen shots below demonstrate the creative use, and flexibility of the NMS Dashboard Design Toolkit. The gallery shows examples of NMS executive and business dashboards that have been created by Nimsoft’s customers, partners, and staff. If you have an interesting dashboard that you would like to add to our gallery, please email us to let us know!

 

  • VMware ESX and VM Dashboard
  • End-to-End Service Components w/ End-user QoS
  • Network Status Dashboard
  • Top Resources Dashboard
  • End-user Experience Dashboard
  • Microsoft Exchange QoS Dashboard
  • Oracle Health Status Dashboard
  • Database Server Health Status Dashboard
  • Network Operations
  • Server Status Dashboard
  • Geographical Dashboard
  • Geographical Dashboard
  • Cisco VoIP Dashboard
  • McKesson Electronic Medical Records Dashboard
  • Datacenter Dashboard
 

VMware Views

VMware ESX and VM Dashboard

What it shows: ESX Host status with 16 Virtual Machines

Key concepts you can apply:
This VMware dashboard underscores the creative flexibility inherent in Nimsoft Dashboards.  The cool 3-dimensional graphic shows a single ESX host with 16 guest machines, each serving various business functions including email, web, Blackberry, database, file, print server and more.  Each graphic element is configured as an active alarm object and will pop-up a filtered, color-coded alarm list when selected.

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End to End Views

End-to-End Service Components w/ End-user QoS

What it shows: Service Components and End-User QoS

Key concepts you can apply:
This dashboard shows critical servers supporting an online business service. It also includes an object (leftmost) showing the end-user's experience with the online service. Note the response time metrics between each server - these are active text objects that update themselves at each poll interval. Selecting the end-user and server objects will launch a second-level detailed dashboard. Also included at the top of this dashboard are SLA compliance details.

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Network Views

Network Status Dashboard

What it shows: Network Interface Resource Utilization and Status

Key concepts you can apply:
This dynamic Nimsoft dashboard displays network interface utilization and performance statistics in real-time. Indicators are placed in the dashboard to show interface bandwidth utilization, error packets, queue statistics, alarm status, and more.

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Managed Service Provider (MSP) Views

Top Resources Dashboard

What it shows: Active Tables Containing Top Consumers, Resources, Performers, etc.

Key concepts you can apply:
The Nimsoft Dashboard Designer includes an active table object (amongst many other design objects) that can be populated with any of the 1000’s of data points monitored by Nimsoft.  This dashboard example is one that a service provider would observe to quickly understand the state of their customer’s business applications and IT environment.  Similar dashboards can be built with data filtered according to specific customers and shared via secure portal access.

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End User Quality of Service Views

End-user Experience Dashboard

What it shows: End-user Experience Performance Statistics for a Web Based Business Application

Key concepts you can apply:
Using the Bugzilla application GUI as a bitmap backdrop, this dashboard shows transaction response times as experienced by the end-user – transactions monitored include home page launch, login, bug search, bug view, and logout.  Additionally, each layer of the web server hosting the Bugzilla application is monitored for health status; this includes the Linux OS, Apache, MySQL and key Buzilla application processes and services.

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MS Exchange Views

Microsoft Exchange QoS Dashboard

What it shows: Complete MS Exchange Status Visibility

Key concepts you can apply:
This Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange QoS Dashboard provides visibility of key MS Exchange performance indicators such as MTA, SMTP, IS and server resources.  This dashboard example represents only a small subset of the comprehensive monitoring Nimsoft brings to market for MS Exchange environments.

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Database Views

Oracle Health Status Dashboard

What it shows: Real-time & Historical Oracle Health Stats

Key concepts you can apply:
In this dashboard example, Nimsoft customers will have full visibility of their Oracle environment. Note the database query response statistics in the right portion of the dashboard – real-time and historical, included with alert indicators.

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Database Server Health Status Dashboard

What it shows: Real-time & Historical Database Server Health Stats

Key concepts you can apply:
In this dashboard design example, Nimsoft customers will have full visibility of their database servers. This dashboard enables observation of the database server by subsystem alarm status, resource consumption, SQL query response time, overall server uptime, and more.

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Services Views

Network Operations

What it shows: Network Services Across Geography

Key concepts you can apply:
In clean, clear, and comprehensive fashion, this dashboard displays network status across a geographic region. A complete listing of networked technologies and services is depicted with alarm status indicators (on the left), and to aid in correlating degrading services to a geographic region a national map is included to the right. Notice the response time indicators (listed lowest-left in the dashboard) showing network latency between locations.

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Server Views

Server Status Dashboard

What it shows: Server Resource Utilization and Status

Key concepts you can apply:
Demonstrated in this dynamic dashboard is Nimsoft ability to collect and display a comprehensive set of server resource statistics. Indicators are placed in the dashboard to show server resource utilization, process and network interface activity, also included are alert indicators organized by key server subsystems.

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Geographic Views

Geographical Dashboard

What it shows: Worldwide Map with Datacenter Locations Hosting VMware Server Farms.

Key concepts you can apply:
This dashboard features a fashionable backdrop map overlaid with active alarm indicators, providing a bird’s eye perspective of datacenter locations hosting VMware server farms.  VMware Administrators can drill down on the location icons and then into the underlying VMware server farms to isolate and remediate subsystems and resources that may be in a degraded state.

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Geographical Dashboard

What it shows: Network Locations with Status Visibility

Key concepts you can apply:
Our customer monitors the IT infrastructure on oil rigs throughout the Gulf region. Importing a map and then placement of picture objects that represent the oil rigs provides a nice birds-eye view of this managed environment. Drilling into the oil rig objects will launch a second level dashboard that shows the configuration and status of network components.

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Cisco VoIP Views

Cisco VoIP Dashboard

What it shows: VoIP Network and Application Server Performance Including Phone/Call Statistics

Key concepts you can apply:
This Cisco VoIP dashboard demonstrates a combined network/server/service perspective.  In a single dashboard network performance (critical for call quality) is monitored along with Cisco CallManager server resources (CPU, disk, processes, etc.) and is correlated against key VoIP services.  Nimsoft Probes for Cisco CallManager provide access to the abundance of VoIP call/phone/gateway statistics driving the CallManager graphs in this dashboard.  Nimsoft for Cisco IPSLA and Cisco QOS probes QOS provide insights into VoIP network performance.

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Healthcare Views

McKesson Electronic Medical Records Dashboard

What it shows: ETE Infrastructure supporting EMR Application

Key concepts you can apply:
This dashboard example demonstrates Nimsoft automated monitoring for McKesson Electronic Medical Records (EMR) applications and services. The dashboard shows connectivity and response time monitoring for stationary and mobile EMR application users. Backend databases housing patient records are monitored for integrity and transaction performance. Supporting infrastructure components such as critical network links, servers, authentication, etc. are also being monitored to ensure an optimal EMR application experience for end-users.

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Datacenter Views

Datacenter Dashboard

What it shows: Distributed Datacenters with Health Status Visibility of Hosted Physical and Virtual Servers

Key concepts you can apply:
This datacenter dashboard demonstrates how complex distributed IT environments can be intuitively depicted and observed for their overriding health status.  Top level propagated alarm indicators reveal health status for the various datacenters, also included are server allocation details.  This dashboard view features the Nimsoft Dashboard ‘Panel Navigator’, which makes it easy to navigate through the multi-layered datacenter views. Featuring color coding, the Panel Navigator makes it easy to identify dashboard levels and servers that have the highest alarm severity.

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