Network Management Software

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Today's IT networks are a complex mix of interdependent devices co-mingled with application databases, business applications and various sources of identity information. The ever-increasing volume of information generated by these data sources combined with increases in service level agreements and reductions in operational staff has resulted in one of the biggest challenges in information technology today -- effective and proactive network management. Without network availability and performance, business will suffer. Automated tools are required to manage the volume of network issues and critical events that occur each day, ensuring maximum network and application availability for mission critical functions.

That’s where LogMatrix comes in. Our Network Management solution is an extensible monitoring and event correlation framework that enables users to implement their IT operational practices and policies. The foundation component, NerveCenter (download Product Brief), helps deliver end-to-end network management by providing visibility across networks, systems and applications, collecting and correlating data, identifying issues and determining root cause.

NerveCenter enables managers to directly address and rectify problems plaguing today's distributed networks: the inability to consolidate network and security events; systems overwhelmed by superfluous data or event storms; lack of automation causing an inconsistent reaction to critical events (human error); excessive difficulty demonstrating compliance with SLAs and other requirements; and overall lack of operational accountability because of incomplete information.

NerveCenter increases your system's availability by providing proactive, scalable network monitoring, automated actions to fix problems, and real-time correlation to provide smart root cause analysis and fault storm management. In use with hundreds of global enterprises, NerveCenter's smart correlation capabilities and unique approach make it the ideal companion product to simplify growing HP Network Node Manager or IBM Tivoli NetCool implementations.

One size does not fit all

As today’s IT infrastructures evolve, they are becoming more diverse and complex. NerveCenter is a toolkit that enables you to implement your IT infrastructure management practices and policies. It allows you to manage critical IT assets the way you need them managed to proactively ensure they are accessible and available at all times.

Complete Visibility into Your Infrastructure

To successfully apply your management practices and policies, you must have access to all the management information available. NerveCenter incorporates a smart polling engine which retrieves additional detailed information only when needed to diagnose a problem. It also acquires management information through any of the LogMatrix CommandCenter Collector Integrations.

Rapid Deployment and Greater Flexibility

Through a graphical interface, you define your unique IT management practices and policies to NerveCenter’s internal finite state correlation engine. This enables you to quickly set how you want your infrastructure managed as well as quickly adapt to changes in your environment or management requirements.

Choose how to alert or even fix problems

As NerveCenter correlates a wealth of IT management information from all data. When NerveCenter identifies an issue, it can:

• Send an email or page to IT staff
• Send an alert to a management platform
• Store the information for reporting at a later time
• Run a script to implement your own solution, including automated corrective actions

IT staff are presented only with actionable alerts to make efficient use of their time. This reduces IT infrastructure costs and improves service availability and performance.

Run stand-alone or in concert with other management platforms

NerveCenter can be used to provide a correlation conduit for alerts presented by a network monitoring system such as HP OpenView or IBM Tivoli Netcool.  However, LogMatrix CommandCenter is also suitable for deployment as the sole IT infrastructure management platform for many organizations.

NerveCenter can be used on its own or integrated with other elements of the CommandCenter suite. For example, NerveCenter can run highly customized threat correlations while EventCenter performs all of its built-in security scans in parallel. You can integrate NerveCenter with LogCenter, the log management module of the CommandCenter suite. Additionally NerveCenter has the flexibility to be used with existing management systems as part of a larger best-of-breed solution which will actually help you get more value from your existing investments in management software and provide a common, cross domain/cross technologies analysis layer across the whole enterprise. undefinedundefined