Ops Mgr 2007 User Interface Integration
You can access most of the Xian Io functionality straight from the Operations Manager 2007 Console.
Enhanced Xian Console
The Xian Console has been improved and has many new features; like custom views, rules renaming and easier rule wizards.
Linkable Policy Templates
Applying policy templates (a group of predefined rules) was never this easy. Now with only two clicks you not only add them to a large number of devices, you also link them. This makes it easy to change a rule on all the devices after you have applied a policy template.
Improved Device Availability Rule
New Device Availability rules functionality include; Device Status and Response Time Counters and Alerts. Also includes new Availability reports.
Automatic Device Update
Now, whenever changes happen on your network or Linux/Solaris Environments (like interfaces, processes or names) these changes are automatically notified to Xian and the running rules.
What’s New in Xian Io Network Manager SP2
There are several improvements in Xian Io SP2. The ones that have had the most impact on functionality and performance are detailed below.
Improved Communication between Xian Io and Management Servers.
The Xian Data Server no longer uses the SDK to send counters and events to the Root Management Server; it can now communicate with secondary Management Servers using the Xian Connector Module. This feature increases the monitoring capacity of Xian while at the same time improving stability.
Improved Management Packs
Xian’s ‘Smart Management Packs’ have been redesigned to take up less memory and cause less congestion allowing those resources to be used to enhance Xian’s monitoring capacity.
Multiple Xian Environments
To increase the number of devices you can monitor with Xian you can add an independent Xian installation to your OpsMgr Management Group. The amount of additional devices you can monitor with a second installation of Xian depends on hardware configuration, number of active rules and rule execution intervals among others. You can do this as many times as necessary.
Automatic Health Reset
When a rule sends an alert to Operations Manager, it remains open until a success event is sent to close the alert. What Automatic Health Reset does, is once the rule is removed and is no longer monitoring that node, it sends a success event so that remaining alerts in Operations Manager disappear.
Improved SNMP engine
In Xian Io SP1 the snmp counter could, on rare occasions send wrong counters. Through the use of a new and more robust SNMP module this is no longer possible.
Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities
The number of devices a single installation of Xian Io SP2 can monitor has been increased to approximately 1000.
More reports
To have more possibilities to analyze your performance counters Xian Io has now even more reports to help you. Every Management Pack comes with over 100 build in Reports!
For a short introduction on Xian Io check out the video below:
Available Smart Management Packs
The Jalasoft Smart Management Packs provide the intelligence to organize, process, and analyze the information on monitored devices into the views, computer groups, and reporting capabilities of Ops Mgr 2007 using the Xian Connector for Ops Mgr 2007.
