FireScope, a provider of IT service management offerings, has released FireScope Dash, a new monitoring system that is offered as either a virtual or a physical appliance and includes complete software stack pre-installed and ready to start.
The company claims that its design, when coupled with FireScope Dash’s built-in discovery and auto-configuration, enables organisations to get to their first real-time dashboards of infrastructure status and performance in minutes.
According to FireScope, the new offering includes discovery feature that identifies critical hardware, operating systems and networked applications and automatically configures monitoring using profiles from over 1500+ commonly used assets; and traditional monitoring capabilities such as SNMP, Syslog and WMI/Perfmon. It also offers optional agents for most commonly used platforms, LDAP connectivity, direct database querying, an Enterprise Service Bus and more.
With FireScope Dash, all metrics are normalised and monitored in real-time for performance thresholds, security events, error trapping and any first indicators of potential incident, the company said.
In addition to automatically generated dashboards and inline reporting, the new offering enables users to create their own dashboard pages and reports and extend Dash’s out of the box configuration to monitor custom applications, define events and configure escalating notification.
FireScope said that Dash can be expanded to monitor the performance of an organisation’s virtual environment, as well as track human or system initiated changes to that environment.
Mark Lynd, president and COO of FireScope, said: "Dash is a disruptor for the industry. For too long they’ve been treading water with solutions built from legacy architectures that require too much cost and effort to configure, use and maintain, and have no way to support the recent explosion of new technologies. I hope they take a good look at Dash and realise that the bar is being set higher."
