etIQ Corp. is extending the management capabilities of i
ts flagship NetIQ AppManager Suite, promising customers tighter integration with applications and servers from Microsoft and Compaq Computer.
NetIQ AppManager consists of different components designed to monitor specific Microsoft applications, such as Exchange, SQL Server, Systems Management Server, and Internet Information Server. NetIQ will announce this week that it's adding components to support Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition and Compaq's Insight Manager server-management product.
NT Enterprise is designed for large-scale deployment of distributed applications and offers high-availability clustering, support for large multiprocessing servers with expanded memory, and tools for building enterprise-level applications. The new AppManager Suite components will offer a way to centrally manage NT-based clusters as well as custom-developed applications built using Microsoft Transaction Server and Microsoft Message Queue Server.
Jon Thomas, VP of information technology at NovaMed Eyecare Manage
ment LLC in Chicago, is looking forward to AppManager's clustering and transaction-monitoring capabilities. "We're running a highly distributed NT environment," Thomas says. "Clustering will become more and more important in our regional centers. This new piece will let us support these clusters from a central location."
Being able to track transactions from a central location, Thomas adds, will help NovaMed's IT department get a better idea of performance levels at remote sites.
NetIQ, in Santa Clara, Calif., will also announce a component to integrate AppManager with Compaq's Insight Manager, letting administrators monitor Compaq servers in addition to their Microsoft applications. Administrators will be able to do such tasks as monitor the health of the server; check the status of the power supply battery; report on Insight Manager asset information such as serial number and CPU speed; and monitor the network interface cards-all through the NetIQ central console.
Northern Trust Co., a bank i
n Chicago, is only looking at Microsoft's new clustering and transaction-processing capabilities, but the Insight Manager integration is something the company can use today, says LAN architect Kurt Guerrero. "We depend on Insight Manager, and the integration will mean I won't have two GUIs to look at at the same time," he says.
The NT Enterprise components are expected to be available this fall; the Compaq Insight Manager component will be available next month. All component software will start at about $600, while consoles will start at $2,500.
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etIQ Corp. is extending the management capabilities of i
ts flagship NetIQ AppManager Suite, promising customers tighter integration with applications and servers from Microsoft and Compaq Computer.
