Introducing CA Nimsoft Monitor 6

Simple, powerful IT Monitoring.

Dan BirckSr. Principal Product Marketing Manager

Ken AdamsonSr. Director, Product Management

What is CA Nimsoft Monitor 6?� The latest release of our flagship

monitoring solution. � New capabilities:

– Network flow analysis– Faster deployments: Automated

Deployment Engine + auto-discovery improvements

– Easier to use: A new operator interface, the new Unified Service Manager (USM).

– Immediate OOTB value + improved visualization: New executive level dashboards + device views

Introducing CA Nimsoft Monitor for Flow Analysis� A simple, powerful network flow analysis

capability built on top of NM 6, which leverages industry-leading technology from CA Network Flow Analysis. � Provides visibility and detailed historical

analysis of network conversations between applications and hosts. � Access to this information puts IT teams in a

position to actively optimize network service delivery for cost and business impact.� Provides new insights into network utilization

for all Nimsoft customers.� Provides an opportunity for our MSP customers

to add flow analysis to your service catalog.

Why do you need flow analysis?� How does it help?

– Make more Informed infrastructure investments– Solve performance problems faster– Optimize the network infrastructure for application performance � Questions it can answer:

– Do you know all of the applications running on your network? – What are the application traffic patterns? – Which applications and hosts are consuming the most bandwidth? – When are my applications consuming too much bandwidth? – How much link capacity do I need in the future? – Is more bandwidth really the answer to my performance problems?– Is there malicious traffic impacting my network?

CA Nimsoft Monitor for Flow Analysis: Supported flows� Netflow 5, 7, 9� IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) (Cisco, Sonicwall, Nortel) � sFlow (HP, Foundry, Extreme, Enterasys, D-Link, Dell, Acatel-

Lucent, Juniper, Force-10) � J-Flow (Juniper) � NetStream (HP/3Com, Huawei) � Cflowd (Acatel-Lucent, Juniper) � Rflow (Ericsson)

Deploy 50%+ faster� New capability to ”push”

Nimsoft agents out to servers in the network(s). � No need to manually

install onto OS.� Dramatically decreases

deployment times and TTR (time to revenue) for Service Providers.

Streamlined UI� New ops view that contains

alarm AND performance data, in context.

� New grouping feature allows you to group devices you care about.

� New search feature quickly finds devices with common attributes to triage alarms or access device views for troubleshooting.

� New inline performance graph of the metric behind an alarm, with the alarm overlaid on the history. Helps operators see what progressed up to the alarm condition.

New Alarm Console� Users can view all alarms, by

group or from an individual device perspective.� Alarms related to groups help

identify issues across devices that support a critical business application and resolve issues faster.� Enables you to report and

group alarms by severity, type, host, custom fields and more. The graph is interactive with the list of alarms and intelligently filters alarms with a simple click.

Executive dashboards (out of the box)• View overall status of your

applications, customers and services using the new out-of-box executive views.

• Each badge can represent the availability and performance of a business service or customer.

• Supports drill down into device detail views.

New device views• Provides a consolidated

view of performance, availability and monitoring for servers or network devices

• Provides a faster, leaner way to present large amounts of technical detail.

• Provides easy access to PRD reports as well.

Performance Reports• Out of the box

reports can be accessed directly from the new Device Views.

Early impressions from you – our customers.

Thank you

Q&A

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