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> Assures availability of all your Internet servers with a single product
> Manages reliability and performance of today’s Web-based applications
> Monitors production XML Web services
> Solves common problems through root-cause analysis and automatic corrective actions
> Verifies service-level agreements with performance reports
Business challenge
The switch to a Web-centric enterprise adds complexity and demands for higher availability and performance to your IT organization. Integrating Internet technology into existing processes without disrupting the organization is a challenge. In addition to the extra administration skills required to manage Internet-based applications, the numerous deployments of servers such as Web, DNS, Mail, and LDAP directory services needed in complex eBusiness environments can overwhelm your bandwidth and that of your staff. To maximize the potential of the Internet, you need to be assured that your Web servers and applications are available and functioning, and you need a comprehensive tool to manage this infrastructure without requiring special expertise in Internet management.
BMC Software solution
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers provides built-in expertise and automated administrative control for Web-based applications and XML Web services. The product monitors and manages Internet servers to ensure greater availability for mission-critical Internet applications. The product’s parameters provide a detailed statement of all system activity over time, allowing you to identify peaks, troughs, and trends in system performance.
You can use BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers to detect problems, optimize your systems, analyze trends, and plan capacity, managing multiple local and remote systems simultaneously. When problems do occur, BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers performs root-cause analysis to help you quickly pinpoint and resolve issues, ensuring your Internet sites run efficiently 24 hours a day.
Single Source for Managing Internet Servers
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers maximizes your performance and effectiveness with a single source of unparalleled monitoring and management expertise for Internet and intranet servers. You will improve end-user satisfaction, reduce the risk of data damage or loss, and support more effective optimization, benchmarking, and capacity planning. BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers manages all major Internet services, including HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, FTP, LDAP, TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and NNTP on Unix and Microsoft Windows platforms.
XML Web Services Monitoring
The newest evolution in Internet protocols is XML Web services, and it will change the way you develop and deploy enterprise applications. XML Web services enables more agile application integration and B2B composite applications using the latest open Internet standards, including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers can monitor new applications using these protocols, including those created by application platforms such as WebSphere, WebLogic, or .NET. This product also monitors services provided by important packaged applications such as Siebel or SAP. With BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers, you will be prepared to bring these next generation application services to production monitoring standards.
Web Server Security Management
SSL encryption is the Internet standard for protecting information. While encryption is good for information security, it can present special challenges when monitoring these secured servers. BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers solves this problem with proactive monitoring and service assurance of any application secured through SSL encryption. You can also use this product to monitor the expiration of your SSL certificates and to manage highly secured Web servers requiring client-side authentication for access.
Remote vs. Local Monitoring
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers offers both remote and local monitoring of Internet servers. With local monitoring, you have the ability to automatically restart a service (the Web server or DNS, for example) when it is not functioning properly. Local monitoring also allows you to scan the log files and alert the administrator immediately if an error condition is detected. If your requirement is to manage Internet services from a centralized monitoring host, BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers offers complete remote monitoring functionality, as well. The choice is yours.
Benefits and Features
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers provides:
> Centralized or distributed monitoring of server health and response time
> Availability, reliability, and response-time monitoring of heterogeneous XML Web services
> Automated root-cause analysis that pinpoints the source of Internet server problems
> Validation of content delivery of dynamic Web pages
> Advanced warning of unanticipated server problems before they cause outages
> Ability to diagnose Web response-time problems by understanding which page elements are causing bottlenecks
> Understanding of real-time Web server activity with access-log monitoring
> In-depth management toolset for Microsoft IIS, Apache, and Sun Web servers
> Internet domain name monitoring, assuring your domain record does not expire unexpectedly and is not compromised by attackers
Supported environments
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers monitors all standard HTTP and HTTPS servers, such as Microsoft IIS, Apache, Netscape, iPlanet, or Tomcat, and other standard Internet servers (such as DNS, FTP, LDAP, SMTP), and is supported on the following environments:
> Sun Solaris
> IBM AIX
> HP-UX
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
> Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
> Red Hat and SuSE Linux, including zSeries Linux
BMC Performance Manager for Internet Servers works with all PATROL V3.4.11 and later agents and consoles.
Helping You Maintain Advantage
BMC Software Professional Services helps your company maintain its competitive advantage through a comprehensive suite of services that includes service level management consulting, installation, implementation, configuration, and customization. Our professional services and education offerings are designed to ensure the ongoing availability of critical business applications, maximize product potential, reduce project risk, deliver IT value to your business, and improve your operations. For more information about BMC Software Professional Services, visit http://www.bmc.com/profserv.
About BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases, and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2003 revenues of more than $1.3 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.
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