single console for viewing opmanager & deviceexpert alarms

Is this how you

manage your IT? Uses any of the following point

products: IBM Tivoli, Alterpoint, ManageEngine DeviceExpert

Uses any of the following point products: OpenView, BMC, ManageEngine OpManager

Network Configuration Team Performance Monitoring & alerting Team

Problem with this

model

Point products work well, but

does not offer a unified approach towards problem

solving!

Even a small router config. change

can stall your

business!

Unable to access the

CRMMe too!

Sales team in Branch Office 1

Utter chaos!

The blame game

begins!Performance Monitoring Team, HO

The server & the CRM are running good. Not sure

what’s the issue!

Configuration team must have changed

any router config. Will check with them now.

John, did you change the branch

office router configuration? Looks like Dan had

changed the config. of Cisco 2900. I did not

authorize this. Anyways, will ask him to revert.No

Automation! Loss

of productivity

Network Configuration Team, HO

No Automation!

Loss of

productivity

It’ll be great if such configuration changes

are automatically added as events in my

monitoring software.

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ManageEngine OpManager

ManageEngine DeviceExpert

Unified approach with OpManager & DeviceExpert

About OpManager

OpManager

Scales over 50,000

interfaces

Support 600+ device types

Offers High availability

Includes Faster

Discovery Engine

OpManager is enterprise ready, network, server & virtualization monitoring software

About DeviceExpert

DeviceExpert

Configuration versioning & Comparison

Approval mechanism for configuration

upload

Real-time configuration

tracking

Scheduled configuration

backup

DeviceExpert is multi vendor network change, configuration & compliance management software

How does

OpManager raises alarms

for config.

changes done

in Device Expert?

OpManager’s Powerful

Trap Processor • OpManager’ SNMP trap processor

receives traps sent by third party applications and devices.

• Converts such traps into alarms

OpManager

SNMP Traps

Config. changes

are added

as alarms

in OpManager

OpManagerSends SNMP Traps

DeviceExpert

Alarm is Raised

Configuration change

Steps to

forward traps from

DeviceExpert

to OpManager

1• Add the device in both OpManager &

DeviceExpert

2• Create a change management rule in

DeviceExpert to send traps to OpManager

3• Traps will be sent from DeviceExpert to

OpManager whenever a configuration is changed

4• Create a Trap Processor in OpManager to convert

the received traps in to alarms

Cisco 2900’s device configuration is

changed

When Cisco

2900’s config.

is changed

in Device Expert

An alarm

is raised

in OpManager

Alarm is raised for the configuration change

Server down alarm

Configuration change alarm

CPU utilization threshold

violation alarm

Work in

tandem with other

IT teams

OpManager’s unified alarm console

Thank youIf you need any clarification, please contact

bharanikumar@zohocorp.com