AppManager Product Status UpdateAppManager Product Status Update

David MountTechnical Manager – UK, Ireland & Middle EastDavid MountTechnical Manager – UK, Ireland & Middle East

Please Note…

• This session will be linked with the ‘AppManager Deep Dive’ session, and will run through the break at 15:15

• The Product Status Update (Level 200) will run until 15:00

Agenda

• AppManager 7 new features overview– Agent Auto-deployment– Rules-based Management Groups– Monitoring Policy Exceptions– Control Center Enhancements

• AppManager 7.01 Overview

AppManager Agent Auto-deployment

• Description– Automated detection of new machines & applications– Automated remote deployment of agents & modules– Rapid response to changing environments (every 5 min by default)– Multiple, firewall-friendly deployment servers

• Benefits– Significantly reduces cost of deploying and upgrading agents– Reduces monitoring exposure when changes occur– Reaches into “nooks & crannies” of the managed environment to

install agents

• Bottom Line– Fully automate monitoring configuration from metal to production

• When combined w/ Rule-based Management Groups & Monitoring Policy

AppManager Agent Auto-deploymentControl: Requires little intervention, but won’t run amuck either

Control: Requires little intervention, but won’t run amuck either

Security: Rule-specific credentials enable distinct handling for each security domain

Security: Rule-specific credentials enable distinct handling for each security domain

Scheduling: Granular control over when deployments happen

Scheduling: Granular control over when deployments happen

Firewall-friendly: Use deployment servers positioned in appropriate DMZsFirewall-friendly: Use deployment servers positioned in appropriate DMZs

Rules-Based Management Groups

• Description– Dynamic membership for Control Center Management

Groups– Easy-to-use wizard for creating rich, query-based rules– Computers added & removed automatically

• Benefits– Reduces the overhead of maintaining computer groups in a

dynamic, changing IT environment– Eliminates the need to manage views in Operator Console– With Monitoring Policy, ensures appropriate jobs are

deployed each computer• Bottom Line

– Fully automate monitoring configuration from metal to production

• When combined w/ AutoDeployment & Monitoring Policy

Rules-Based Management Groups

Rules Wizard: Easily create rich, but understandable rules

Rules Wizard: Easily create rich, but understandable rules

Templates: Quickly build rules using NetIQ-supplied Expression Templates

Templates: Quickly build rules using NetIQ-supplied Expression Templates

Rich Criteria: Powerful new ways of filtering computers into Management Groups

Rich Criteria: Powerful new ways of filtering computers into Management Groups

Monitoring Policy Exceptions

• Description– Job Parameter Override: One policy but with unique job

parameters on each machine– Job Status Override: Ability to stop or start Monitoring Policy

jobs– Job Comments: Ability to apply comments to specific jobs

explaining an exception or “naming” them for future reference• Benefits

– Flexible Monitoring Policy increases IT efficiency while facilitating IT agility

• Bottom Line– Fully automate monitoring configuration from metal to

production• When combined w/ AutoDeployment & Rule-based Management

Groups

Monitoring Policy Exceptions

Override Column: Custom Properties can be designated to override almost any job parameter in any KS

Override Column: Custom Properties can be designated to override almost any job parameter in any KS

Control Center Enhancements

• Service Map Enhancements– Auto-populating embedded Server Views– Filtered embedded Event Views– Selectable Icon Size– ‘Right Click’ extensible menus– Delegated Service Map Authoring

• Improved Efficiency– Maintenance Mode– Improved Navigation and Organisation

• Improved Scalability

AppManager 7.01 Update

• SQL Virtual Node– Discover SQL Clusters from virtual node perspective– Drop Jobs on virtual node and generate logical data

stream

Discovery: Virtual Cluster Nodes in treeview

Discovery: Virtual Cluster Nodes in treeview

Jobs: Master job plus job running on each physical node

Jobs: Master job plus job running on each physical node

AppManager 7.01 Update

• Vista Support– Run agent and AM consoles on Vista (32 bit)

• AppManager 7.0.1 Unix– Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 support– Improved agent stability and new Syslog architecture