The distributed nature of business-critical applications makes the continuous availability and optimal performance of heterogeneous network crucial to successful operations. Network downtime or performance issues can have a devastating impact on business often resulting in lost revenue, dissatisfied customers, and damaged credibility in the marketplace. "Legacy systems present an additional dilemma: how to manage different network infrastructures as separate entities? Invariably, management tasks are frequently duplicated for each network protocol and often introduce problems when crossing network boundaries such as SNA to TCP/IP," says Andrea Lodolo, technical director for Global Technology Delivery Services at Computer Associates (CA) Africa.
What is required is the ability to manage networks as an interdependent extension of other business-critical resources. Regardless of whether the requirement varies from small LANs to global enterprises, today`s network managers need protocol-independent, highly scalable solutions that deliver the ability to monitor and manage network traffic while providing an integrated picture of end-to-end network performance. Furthermore, these solutions must be able to manage all industry-standard network protocols, such as TCP/IP, IPX, SNA and DECnet, enabling administrators to centrally manage their network assets as an integrated part of their enterprise.
Lodolo says that CA is able to meet these requirements through a variety of solutions that ensure optimal service levels and seamlessly integrate network management with other more specific CA solutions. CA Unicenter`s Network Option comes in various flavours tailored to the specific requirements of different environments.
Unicenter TNG DECnet Manager Option
The Unicenter TNG DECnet Manager provides comprehensive network management capabilities to improve network availability and performance, resulting in better service for end users and a higher return on investment for the enterprise.
"DECnet is well proven, but incompatible with other popular network protocols," says Lodolo. "End-to-end network management has become a critical component of business. Yet managing networks often involves tracking problems across network protocol boundaries. As a result, organizations have had to manage the DECnet environment as a separate entity from the rest of the enterprise. This resource-intensive approach is costly, and can result in extra delay and downtime for DECnet nodes. Organizations need a solution to manage their DECnet environment from an enterprise-level perspective. Unicenter TNG DECnet Manager Option is a protocol-independent, highly scalable solution that monitors and manages network traffic while providing an integrated picture of network performance," he says.
Unicenter TNG Response Manager Option
"Unicenter TNG Response Manager Option automatically provides end-to-end response times from end-user perspective, along with discovering network resources and users. It is a proactive management application, collecting network-wide performance metrics with the Response Manager probe," says Lodolo. The product analyses network performance and provides automated baselines and thresholds, which creates alerts when performance problems occur in the client/server environment. It is currently available for Windows NT.
Unicenter TNG SNA Manager Option
Unicenter TNG SNA Manager Option is a client/server application, which combines CA-NetSpy on the MVS platform, with SNA WorldView Agent and SNA Manager Problem Analysis components on the Windows NT workstation. This enables viewing of complex-wide information pertaining to the SNA network subsystems via an easy-to-use graphical interface. CA-NetSpy feeds performance information and alert data to Unicenter TNG through the SNA Manager. SNA Manager is part of a complex management solution for the enterprise`s computing infrastructure, integrating system information across the most significant platforms and disciplines, to allow the resolution of problems confronted by today`s distributed applications.
Unicenter TNG DASD Manager Option
Unicenter TNG DASD Manager Option is a client/server application that combines CA-ASTEX on the MVS platform, with the DASD Manager WorldView Agent and the DASD Problem Analysis components on the Windows NT workstation. CA-ASTEX feeds performance information and alert data to Unicenter TNG through DASD Manager. DASD Manager is part of a complete management solution for the enterprise`s computing infrastructure, integrating network and system information across the most significant platforms and disciplines, to allow the resolution of problems confronted by today`s distributed applications.
NetworkIT Pro Enterprise Edition
NetworkIT Pro delivers a powerful centralized management solution for distributed networks. Through policy-based management, NetworkIT Pro aligns service levels with business objectives to provide ongoing availability, optimal performance, and management of networks in a business context.
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