Ten reasons why administrators love OpManager

1. Start monitoring your network within minutes of installation

• Point-and-click install and setup eliminating the need to hire a product expert or a paid consultant to do the job.
• OpManager installs on standard operating hardware and supports multiple operating systems.
• No agent installation hassles: OpManager provides 100% agent-less monitoring.
• Wizards and Templates based configuration to quickly apply your corporate monitoring policy.
• Reliable discovery and monitoring using industry standard protocols such as SNMP, Telnet, SSH, and WMI.

2. Visualize your network based on type or logical groups

• Network Maps, category-wise Device Maps and List views provide quick visibility into a network or device level outage.
• Visualize your WAN resources across locations using the Business Views. Restrict user access to select Business Views.
• Flexibility to define more infrastructure maps for new device types, e.g. Environment Sensors, IP Phones etc
• CCTV views enable rotational display of the dashboards that you want to see.

3. One-point Configuration using Device and Interface Templates

• Multi-vendor support with over 650 device templates out-of-the-box. You can add your own templates.
• Share new templates with the OpManager Users Community.
• Interface templates for all types of interfaces, facilitating one-point configuration.
• Templates for process monitoring, file monitoring, and folder monitoring.
• Quick Configuration Wizard to effect a configuration on multiple devices at one go.

4. Monitor network performance, server performance and application performance

• OpManager leverages industry standard protocols for monitoring such as SNMP, WMI, CLI, NetFlow, sFlow, IP SLA, etc.,
• Monitor WAN RTT (Round Trip Time) to spot WAN latency with Hop Graphs showing the exact point of delay.
• Quickly find out if it is the network, server, or the application that is eating up the bandwidth.
• Monitor CPU, Memory, Disk usage on mission critical servers and see which applications/processes are using the most resources. Helps you decide on the hardware upgrade.
• Monitor the health and performance of Servers, Switches, UPS and other infrastructure.

5. Quickly resolve network faults by getting to the root of the problem

• Set performance thresholds for proactive monitoring; avert potential downtimes.
• Receive alerts as email, SMS, RSS feeds, Tweets, and access over your SmartPhone GUI.
• Provision to execute self-healing scripts to resolve faults automatically and suppress unwanted alerts.
• Over 90 powerful widgets and customizable dashboards for easy management.
• Consolidates alerts from SNMP Traps, Windows Event Logs, and Syslogs as well.
• Downtime scheduler to suspend monitoring and alerting during network maintenance.

6. Tools to troubleshoot on the fly

• Real-time instant reports on the performance of resources on a device for quick troubleshooting..
• MIB Browser lets you find out if the device has SNMP and does an SNMP walk to check if a resource responds.
• Access devices from OpManager over Telnet, SSH or RDP and quickly troubleshoot a fault.
• Ping/Traceroute to a device lets you check the device availability and response time.
• Switch Port Mapper lets you check the connectivity between a switch and other devices in a network

7. Power-packed add-ons and plug-ins for specific network and IT infrastructure monitoring needs

• WAN RTT Monitoring pack to using Cisco IP SLA technology to troubleshoot WAN link latency even at the ISP end.
• VoIP Monitoring add-on again leveraging Cisco IP SLA to troubleshoot poor VoIP quality and VoIP QoS reports.
• VMware monitoring add-on to monitor the performance of your ESX VMware servers.
• MS SQL, Active Directory, and MS Exchange Services monitoring add–on to optimize the performance of Windows applications.
• NetFlow Plug–in to identify the top talkers and indepth traffic analysis.
• NCM Plug–in for comprehensive, integrated network configuration management.

8. Advanced reporting with provision to schedule and automatically email or publish the reports

• Top 10 reports shows the top 10 poorly performing resources at one glance.
• Exclusive performance dashboards for ESX VMware servers, Active Directory, MSSQL servers, and Exchange Servers.
• Create Customizable dashboards with only the widgets showing specific network performance data.
• Provision to schedule reports on daily or weekly basis or for a custom period, with the option to email or publish the reports.
• Detailed Reports on the WAN health

9. Seamless integration, making it the one-stop-shop for all your IT Management needs

• Integration with the helpdesk Software, ServiceDesk Plus, enables trouble ticketing, define customer SLAs etc.
• Integration with the bandwidth monitoring tool, NetFlow Analyzer, provides indepth traffic reports.
• The OpManager NCM Plug-in helps in network configuration management.
• Integration with the network security management software, Firewall Analyzer, to monitor your Server's Security, Traffic, & Bandwidth utilization in depth.

10. The 90 : 10 ManageEngine advantage - Lots of Features, affordable price-points

• Different editions (including a free edition for monitoring 10 devices) to choose from with a start price of $995.
• Reliable enterprise-ready software that does not mandate consulting.
• Constant upgrades by way of Service Packs and Hotfixes at no extra cost.
• Easy integration with other related applications in the ManageEngine suite.
• 24 X 5 technical support with free technical support during trial: Unlimited email, phone, and online support.