Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, has unveiled new enhancements to its Unified Monitoring architecture that enables customers to better monitor and manage business applications across infrastructure from the data centre to the cloud including SaaS, hosted and virtualised environments.
According to Nimsoft, the new enhancements include, a unified monitoring portal that provides customisable Web 2.0 dashboards and reporting; expanded resource coverage that enables the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring offerings to gather monitoring data from more than 100 systems, devices, and services, including Google’s cloud-based applications and Rackspace cloud offerings.
The expanded monitoring coverage is delivered in three new offerings including, Power Monitor, googleAppEngine and googleApps monitoring, and Rackspace cloud monitoring. The Power Monitor enables users to monitor data centre power efficiency and UPS status through a single dashboard. It monitors specific SNMP values from uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, and automatic transfer switches for APC devices.
The googleAppEngine and googleApps monitoring enables users to monitor Google’s cloud-based applications and administrators will be able to monitor domain performance of Google Apps and the status of the Google AppEngine application.
Finally, the Rackspace cloud monitoring enables users to monitor infrastructure that they obtain as a service from Rackspace. Nimsoft monitors Rackspace Cloud Servers and Cloud Files (storage) that are integrated with the Limelight content delivery network (CDN), the company said.
Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft Business Unit at CA Technologies, said: "Customers have recognised the tremendous value Nimsoft provides by delivering a single view of both the internal data centre and external cloud-based services.
"With these enhancements, we are further augmenting that value proposition by adding to the resources we can monitor, and providing even more sophisticated ways to view and understand today’s increasingly complex and dynamic IT environments."
