MN504: OpManager Analysis for Networked Application Management

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of ManageEngine OpManager, a network management tool, examining its features and functionalities. The report begins with an overview of OpManager, discussing its installation, configuration, and capabilities in monitoring networks, detecting issues, and generating reports. It then delves into the real-time monitoring functionality, emphasizing its role in proactive issue detection and prevention, including interface and device availability monitoring, service and website monitoring, and WAN link availability. The report further explores network traffic analysis using the Netflow add-on, highlighting its importance in maintaining optimal network performance. A comparison between OpManager and other network management tools is also presented, followed by a conclusion summarizing the key benefits of OpManager in efficient network management and resource optimization. The report also includes references to relevant articles and studies.

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Part 1
ManageEngine OpManager
As per one of the article which describes all the recent tools being utilized for monitoring
the networks, the installation of OpManager is quite faster as well as easier as compared to all
other tools [9]. All the different recent tools mostly monitors all the networks for detecting a
huge number of issues by ensuring for the availability of component and also for measuring a
number of resources which all those components mostly use. But the configuration of the
OpManager is both manual as well as complex. All the administrators can be able to automate
the process of troubleshooting and also maintenance based upon a routine. The ManageEngine
OpManager has the capability of providing a number of views upon the dashboard which can be
easily customized even though the UI navigation is very much difficult. This particular tool has
the capability of generating different types of reports and can even set a number of threshold
alarms for triggering notification with the help of email, text of SMS and several scripts. It has
about three different threshold levels which involves Trouble, Warning and Error. It also possess
with the capability of offering a large number of plugins as products separately.
It has been observed that ManageEngine has announced a full new mapping feature of
storage level which has been added to the Applications Manager [10]. It is mainly a server as
well as a monitoring platform of the performance of application which has the capability of
automatically mapping all the servers of VMware vSphere and all of their VMs which are related
to all the arrays of storage. This particular new feature will be helping a lot to all the
administrators of IT in having much better visibility which will be mainly end to end into the
main performance of all the resources which are virtual. The IT management company has also

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been seen to have been showing a number of upgrades, monitoring service of the infrastructure
of the cloud and also announcing for upgrades for the OpManager. It has also been noticed that
the full new mapping feature of the Applications Manager is mostly enabled by an integration
which is very much enhanced with that of the OpStar and also with the help of the monitoring
software of storage from the ManageEngine. The network management of the OpManager
mainly involves the management software for the network and also for the infrastructure of data
center for all the huge enterprises, providers of service and also for all the SMEs. It also includes
automated flow of works, intelligent engines for alerting, configurable rules of discovery and
templates which are extendable. Lastly it has been observed that network management of the
OpManager incorporates several plugins for the change in the network, management of
configuration and management of IP address. A perfect monitoring of network, database as well
as virtualization are performed by the ManageEngine.
There is one particular study which mainly describes a scrutiny of the performance
monitoring tools of the system which has been explored [11].It has been observed that the
predefined monitors of performance of the OpManager helps a lot for taking control of all the
devices and also the interfaces by directly setting up several monitors for drilling down upon any
specific aspect of any device which is actually needed to be monitored. OpManager helps also
helps a lot in supporting for the setting up of all the variables of SNMP MIB and further helps in
managing as well as in monitoring the performance for a broad range of several devices from
several vendors. It provide a huge support to most of the devices which are used commonly
within the market like Juniper and Cisco. The OpManager also help in controlling the network
with a number of measures which are very much proactive like all the thresholds which are multi
levelled and also the support of the instant notification. The OpManager also provides pings to

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all the devices which are monitored at all the defined intervals of monitoring [8]. If it is seen that
any device has been down or rather if the time taken for response is huge, then this particular
tool has the capability of notifying immediately by sending a text message. With the help of
OpManager, it has become very much easier in both detecting as well as troubleshooting CPU
before they can affect the end user. It also allows for the identification of the hogs of bandwidth
so that the network traffic can be optimized before the network is affected. It provides a lot of
help in both monitoring as well as in reducing the loss of packet because of several discards as
well as errors. The downtime of network can cost a huge expense and that is why monitoring of
network is a necessity. It is mainly a powerful performance monitor of network which helps in
monitoring all the devices for all performance, traffic as well as availability so that the
performance of the network can be monitored.

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Part 2
Functionality related to the monitoring in real time
This is considered to be the most essential functionality of OpManager which has been
inbuilt [1]. In this particular context, the real time monitoring mainly means a procedure of live
maintenance which is constant. If all the earlier cases of this tool is taken into consideration of
the corrected approach type. It mainly indicates that this particular tool has waited for the issue
intentionally for coming up and after that proper measures are taken for the mitigation of all
these issues. The particular monitoring based upon the real time mainly follows a specific
prevention approach which mainly detects all the issues in all the early cases so that appropriate
decisions can be made quickly [2]. The main functionality of the real time monitoring system of
traffic has been described below. It can be determined that a number of functionalities are
introduced within the monitoring system of the real time traffic. Whenever there is any type of
issue which has been raised in the system the users are seen to be immediately reported. In such
a way, the enterprise mainly makes sure that there is an enough amount of time for mitigating the

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problem of the network [3]. Hence, this particular approach has been considered as much better
than the approach which is corrective.
There are a number of functionalities which are provided by this particular system which
include:
 Interface availability: Both the period of time as well as availability can be easily accessed in
such case [4].
 Device availability: Downtime issue elimination can be achieved by setting up the remainder
to all the devices for the checking of availability.
 Monitoring of service availability, procedure and website: In this particular context both the
availability of the service and the procedure as well as the website assessment has been
considered.
 WAN link availability: Any point upon the WLAN can be easily considered for accessing the
application [5].
Network Traffic Analysis
The traffic rate is totally dependent upon a number of situations. For providing help in the
traffic analysis of the network in an effective manner, Netflow add on can be used [6]. The
traffic of the network may face volatility because of a number of factors. As a result, all the end
users are affected inadvertently. As it has been noticed that there is a huge increment in the
dependency of several functions of business upon all the servers and the network, it is very much
imperative that minimum functionality of the downtime is to be facilitated [7]. It also ensures
that all the essential applications for all the business comprising of enough bandwidth if there is
any kind of attack of flooding which is leveraged.

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Part 3:
Similarities and difference between the OpManager and some other tools
OpManager Other Tools
Program integrated which has the capability
of eliminating the need of software
monitoring system which is standalone.
Solutions of monitoring are offered by some
other tools which are now the service of
cloud.
Facility of multiple pricing is seen to be
present.
No facility of multiple pricing is available.
Possessing a functionality which is auto
detected.
Possess with the facility of auto discovery.
Consistent support from the customers is
provided.
Various kinds of problems are faced by
different customers.
Provides support to all the huge OS’s like
Linux and MS Windows.
Limited integration with the system of
operating.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that the monitoring of network is considered to be one of the most
important factor for running several operations of business smoothly within any organization. By
the main way by which both the management and the maintenance is done by some kind of
programs and all these programs are totally responsible for fixing a number of issues in the

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network. A vast description has been made upon the OpManager which mainly works upon the
concept of several preventive measures and detection of issue with the help of real time
monitoring system of traffic and this will be helping the enterprise a lot in saving a lot of both
time as well as resources.

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