AppManager Review

Monitor And Manage Widely Used Applications

AppManager has over 60 built-in modules that are used for collecting data and monitoring the performance and availability of applications and systems within an IT infrastructure. These modules support the monitoring and management of many widely used Windows, Linux, and UNIX applications. In addition, the solution offers a module builder which allows teams to create modules to extend AppManager’s monitoring and data collection capabilities to any Windows-based application. AppManager also uses knowledge scripts which allow users to create and run monitoring tasks or jobs. 

Monitor Web Applications From End Users’ Perspective

The application management solution gives IT operations teams the ability to monitor the performance and availability of web applications from the perspective of end users. Through the aid of its modules which are used for measuring transactions and response times, teams can collect data on the performance and availability of their web applications. The response time modules can execute transactions from client desktops. When they detect poor response times and availability issues, they send alerts and streamlines the reporting of performance and availability issues.

Automatic Discovery And Monitoring Policy Deployment

AppManager provides a set of features aimed at reducing administrative workload. Among these features is its automatic discovery and deployment feature. With this feature, IT operations teams will be able to immediately detect new configurations in their environment. Once these new configurations are discovered, AppManager creates and sends events, permitting teams to implement change management processes or apply monitoring policies. As an example, when it discovers a database instance that is critical to an application, it triggers the implementation of a monitoring policy. It can automatically apply the appropriate monitoring policy or notify the authorized users.

Rule-Based Management Groups

Another feature of AppManager that reduces workload is the application of rule-based management groups. This feature automatically assigns new applications or new components of applications to management groups based on pre-determined rules. These rules can be set up according to locations or business units. This feature is very useful when it comes to grouping applications that serve similar roles and purposes. As AppManager aggregates applications or components and assigns them to groups; the appropriate monitoring policies, custom properties, reporting can be easily applied to those groups.

Collect Events And Data Efficiently

As part of its reporting and analysis features, AppManager delivers a powerful feature that allows IT operations teams to gather events and data efficiently. The solution actually uses a single event to collect data and events. This is more cost-effective than using separate multiple agents, as can be observed in some application management tools. Additionally, this single agent stores the data and events it collected and processed on a single repository. Thus, all the relevant information that users need to troubleshoot issues are centrally organized in a single console and interface, preventing the loss of data points. From this single repository, they can review the gathered events and data through the aid of charts.

Visualize And Fix Availability And Performance Issues

AppManager makes its easy for IT operations teams to fix application availability and performance issues. This is because the solution comes with user-specific views which means users will be able to access information based on their specific roles and areas of concern. Teams can also visualize availability and performance issues through the aid service map views. Service map views display the relationships of applications and other IT components that teams are monitoring. They also provide information about the statuses of such applications and components, as well as show event conditions. Because of this, when issues arise, users can easily isolate the applications and components that are affected and not affected by those issues.