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Contents 
Introduction
Packet shaping/bandwidth compression
Observer 10.1
AppManager v6.0
Lightspeed Systems Bandwidth Management
Specifications
How we tested
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AppManager is a systems management tool that lets you manage your applications and infrastructure. Its main aim is to increase network availability and manage service levels. This tool is designed to monitor the health of all your critical servers in Windows and Unix environments. More so it allows you to create specific monitoring policies, which will alert you if your critical server's aren't performing the way they should.
Installing AppManager can be quite a lengthy process to say the least. There are so many components to install and you may find it a bit daunting trying to understand how everything ties in together.
AppManager works on multi-tier architecture. The main components are the Console, which you use to configure and control the execution of your monitors -- or what NetIQ know as Knowledge Scripts. The second tier comprises of the Repository, which is the SQL Database that serves as the data repository. The third tier is the Management Server, which is the service daemon the agents on Windows and Unix clients use to communicate with the Repository. The fourth tier is the Intelligent Agent -- these are agents that have to be distributed on every server you want to monitor. They receive requests from the Management Server to run and stop monitoring jobs.
AppManager has a pre-installation feature which checks to see whether the components you are about to install pass the system requirements. We found we had to go back a few times to fix up the errors that came up with items not being preinstalled. Once we got passed the pre-installation, we ran the installation. Again, it wasn't an easy process as there are a number of screens you have to carefully read and hope you didn't make any mistakes anywhere. In all, the installation took us about an hour, which is a lot more than we are used to.
Included in AppManager are more than 400 of these predefined Knowledge Scripts. You can also create your own monitoring scripts. Some of the out-of-the-box monitors you can use include:
- Citrix Metaframe: checks if key services are down, and if they are, restarts them.
- Microsoft Active Directory: monitors disk space usage.
- Red Hat Linux: monitors CPU usage for all processes.
- Apache Web Server: verifies whether your Web Server is able to service all incoming requests.
- Veritas Net Backup: monitors the number of failed backups.
- Microsoft Exchange/Lotus Domino: reports the top senders and receivers of e-mail.
- Microsoft SQL/Oracle: identifies which SQL statements are demanding the most system resources.
With all this data you are going to want to be able to create reports. AppManager has some very powerful charting capabilities.For example, with its 3D charting you can do real-time rotation as well as have the ability to export charts to Microsoft Word and Excel.
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