AppManager Suite - What's New

What's New in the AppManager Suite

NetIQ announces availability of several important systems management products in the AppManager Suite: AppManager 6.0 and AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0.

This release offers:

	Monitoring compliance with Service Level Agreements
	Increased application availability
	Improved productivity of IT personnel
	Rapid problem diagnostics and resolution

New Features in AppManager 6.0

Enhancements to the core product for the AppManager 6.0 release improve performance, scalability, security and monitoring support, including:

	Performance and scalability improvements. The performance of AppManager 6.0 has been approximately doubled, so you can monitor roughly twice the number of servers and applications and realize immediate cost savings.
	Complete security review and update. AppManager 6.0 offers many security enhancements, including improved password support, improved authentication and more flexibility in how the roles of various AppManager users can be defined.
	Knowledge Script enhancements. AppManager 6.0 includes new and improved knowledge for Windows, SQL Server and IIS monitoring, including consolidation of multiple related functions, interface cleanup and extensive refinement of the most popular monitoring functions.
	New and updated monitoring support. AppManager 6.0 provides new management support for SUSE Linux and applications, such as VoIP. Many modules have been enhanced to support the latest functionality, such as Exchange Server 2003 and 64-bit SQL Server.
	Multi-language support. AppManager 6.0 offers support for Chinese and Korean language environments, as well as continued support for European and South American environments.

Enhancement to AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0

AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0 provides a capability to remotely diagnose and resolve common problems for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange. This enables more rapid problem diagnostics and resolution, ultimately improving IT efficiency and reducing application downtime.

Product enhancements include:

	Rich data collection. The AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0 collects data through several mechanisms—WMI, AppManager agents and NetIQ Performance Endpoints.
	Support for Microsoft Exchange. AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0 collects and analyzes Exchange-specific information, such as information storage groups, client protocols and internal queues.
	Firewall Traversal. By leveraging AppManager agents for data collection, the AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0 is able to diagnose problems occurring on machines in demilitarized zones or behind firewalls.
	Delegation. The AppManager Diagnostic Console 2.0 uses the AppManager agent to securely enable users to diagnose problems on remote computers without requiring local administrative privileges on the computer being diagnosed.

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