Learn how to monitor key metrics of your business critical servers, analyze process-wise CPU breakup and configure events, scheduled tasks, services and server actions.

1. Server monitoring made easy
with
ManageEngine Applications Manager

2. Agenda
Process wise break up of CPU and
memory
Key metrics of your business
critical servers
Configuring events, services,
scheduled tasks, and automating
server actions
Analyzing server performance
reports, and organizing business
dashboards

3. Challenges faced by IT admins
Server
crashes
Slow
applications
Unexpected
downtimes
Configuring
dependencies
Troubleshoot memory
leak
Optimizing
applications

4. Viable monitoring platform
timely reports for analysis
instantly alerts during an outage
monitors your apps & servers 24/7
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The solution is...
that
and
and delivers
Monitoring
SLA
Management
Alerting
Reporting

5. Applications Manager
Supports over 100 popular apps/ servers. Recommended by over 5000 active admins!

6. Supported Servers

7. Prerequisites
• Mode of Monitoring : WMI, SNMP, SSH, Telnet
• Ports Required : SNMP Mode (port: 161), WMI Mode (WMI port 445, RPC port
135, DCOM ports), SSH mode (port:22), Telnet (port:23)
• User Permission
• Credentials with Administrator privilege
• Configure non-admin user with WMI
• SSH mode, guest user for Linux/Unix based server

8. Discovering your servers
Methods:
• Manual via GUI
• Bulk Import with CSV file
• Auto discovery with ADDM

9. Manual by GUI

10. Bulk Import your monitors

11. Auto Discovery
• IP Range
• CIDR
• vCenter

12. Discovery process

13. Discovery & mapping
Key metrics of your business critical servers
and
Process wise break up of CPU and memory

14. Represents whether a particular monitor is currently available to
undertake requests.
Represents the overall state of the monitor. Depends on
the severity of all the other attributes.
Up
Down
Availabilit
y
Clear
Warning
Critical
Health

15. Clear
Warning
CriticalHealth

16. Total CPU utilization of
the server
Breakup of CPU utilization
based on user, system, I/O
& idle time
Server CPU
utilization

17. Configure thresholds &
actions for metrics such as,
- user
- system
- I/O wait & idle time
- CPU utilization -interrupts/sec
for Individual CPU cores.
CPU core
details

18. Total memory
utilization
of the server
Configure threshold & actions
for metrics such as
Swap memory & Physical memory
utilization.
Server Memory
utilization

19. Process
Split-up

20. Total Disk utilization
of the server
Configure thresholds & actions for available metrics on individual disk drives.
Server Disk
utilization

21. Monitor Disk I/O of:
• AIX
• Linux
Disk I/O
• Sun Solaris
• Windows

22. Monitor Network information of a server by configuring threshold on
available metrics such as speed(Mbps), Input/output traffic (Kbps).
Network

23. Prerequisites:
• Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
• HP System Insight Manager (SIM v6.2 or higher
is recommended)
Monitor Hardware statistics of Dell & HP machine
Hardware

24. Discovery & mapping
Configuring events, services, scheduled tasks, and
automating server actions

25. Analyze various server
events with the help of
Event logs generated for
every individual server.
Event Log
(WMI mode)

26. Create Event Log Rule
System
File Replication Service
DNS Server
Directory Service
Application
Security

27. Create Event Log Rule
Analyze a specific event log by
creating and applying Event Log
Rules to either Monitor types,
specific individual Monitors or even
to an entire Monitor Group.

28. • Add individual process or service
• Use template to configure processes & services in bulk
Process &
Service
(WMI mode)

29. Scheduled
Task
Scheduled Task
Monitoring can be
done only via WMI
mode.

30. • Email
• SMS
• Log a ticket
• Trap
• Execute program actions
• Windows service actions
Configuring automated actions

31. Discovery & mapping
Analyzing server performance reports, and organizing
business dashboards

32. Reports
Trend Analysis Report:
Understand performance trends of your business servers based on historical data to predict future trends
and stay informed.
Forecast Report:
Let Applications Manager make forecast based on utilization as well as growth trends of your servers
Reports based on Monitor Types and their respective metrics:
Generate reports instantaneously for custom attributes of individual monitors, monitor types and even
monitor groups
Capacity Planning Report:
Rightsize your servers and VMs by tracking overutilized, underutilized and idle resources.

33. Trend analysis report
• History Report
• Hour of Day Report
• Day of Week Report
• Statistical Report
• Heat Chart

34. Capacity Planning report
Analyze oversized and undersized machines using CPU and memory utilization metrics.
A utilization threshold can be configured for a specific metric, CPU or Memory:
• Oversized, if a machine uses resources less than this threshold.
• Undersized, if a machine uses resources more than this threshold.

35. Forecast report
• Balance hardware costs with computing needs.
• Staying informed about current disk usage trends and plan future disk utilization requirements

36. View & compare reports
Compare attribute reports of various
different monitors or monitors within
a particular group.

37. Schedule reports
• Schedule daily, weekly, or monthly reports
• Send as an attachment or publish as a link
• Send as a PDF or CSV file

38. Dashboards
• Customize with widgets
• Create and publish
multiple dashboards
• Unified business view of
your entire server
infrastructure

39. Drop us a line at:
Support
appmanager-support@manageengine.com
Eval
eval-apm@manageengine.com
Online Demo
demo.appmanager.com
Quick Recap:
• Key metrics while Monitoring your business critical Servers
• Process wise break up of CPU and Memory
• Configuring Event logs, Service, Process and Scheduled Task
monitoring
• Server Reports and custom dashboards

40. Support
appmanager-support@manageengine.com
Eval
eval-apm@manageengine.com
Online Demo
demo.appmanager.com