1. Introducing CA Nimsoft Monitor 6
Simple, powerful IT Monitoring.
Dan Birck Ken Adamson
Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager Sr. Director, Product Management
2. What is CA Nimsoft Monitor 6?
The latest release of our flagship
monitoring solution.
New capabilities:
– Network flow analysis
– Faster deployments: Automated
Deployment Engine + auto-discovery
improvements
– Easier to use: A new operator interface,
the new Unified Service Manager (USM).
– Immediate OOTB value + improved
visualization: New executive level
dashboards + device views
3. Introducing CA Nimsoft Monitor for Flow Analysis
A simple, powerful network flow analysis
capability built on top of NM 6, which leverages
industry-leading technology from CA Network
Flow Analysis.
Provides visibility and detailed historical
analysis of network conversations between
applications and hosts.
Access to this information puts IT teams in a
position to actively optimize network service
delivery for cost and business impact.
Provides new insights into network utilization
for all Nimsoft customers.
Provides an opportunity for our MSP customers
to add flow analysis to your service catalog.
4. Why do you need flow analysis?
How does it help?
– Make more Informed infrastructure investments
– Solve performance problems faster
– Optimize the network infrastructure for application performance
Questions it can answer:
– Do you know all of the applications running on your network?
– What are the application traffic patterns?
– Which applications and hosts are consuming the most bandwidth?
– When are my applications consuming too much bandwidth?
– How much link capacity do I need in the future?
– Is more bandwidth really the answer to my performance problems?
– Is there malicious traffic impacting my network?
6. Deploy 50%+ faster
New capability to ”push”
Nimsoft agents out to
servers in the network(s).
No need to manually
install onto OS.
Dramatically decreases
deployment times and
TTR (time to revenue) for
Service Providers.
7. Streamlined UI
New ops view that contains
alarm AND performance data, in
context.
New grouping feature allows
you to group devices you care
about.
New search feature quickly finds
devices with common attributes
to triage alarms or access device
views for troubleshooting.
New inline performance graph
of the metric behind an alarm,
with the alarm overlaid on the
history. Helps operators see
what progressed up to the alarm
condition.
8. New Alarm Console
Users can view all alarms, by
group or from an individual
device perspective.
Alarms related to groups help
identify issues across devices
that support a critical business
application and resolve issues
faster.
Enables you to report and
group alarms by severity, type,
host, custom fields and more.
The graph is interactive with
the list of alarms and
intelligently filters alarms with
a simple click.
9. Executive dashboards (out of the box)
• View overall status of your
applications, customers and
services using the new out-
of-box executive views.
• Each badge can represent the
availability and performance
of a business service or
customer.
• Supports drill down into
device detail views.
10. New device views
• Provides a consolidated
view of performance,
availability and
monitoring for servers or
network devices
• Provides a faster, leaner
way to present large
amounts of technical
detail.
• Provides easy access to
PRD reports as well.
14. Legal Disclaimers
This presentation is confidential to Nimsoft and may not be disclosed to any unauthorized third party. This presentation was
based on current information and resource allocations as of August, 2012 and is subject to change or withdrawal by Nimsoft at
any time without notice.
The information in this presentation is intended to outline Nimsoft’s general product direction. All information in this
presentation is for informational purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. Each feature or functionality
included in future releases is subject to change based on a number of factors, including but not limited to internal and external
beta testing, development plan changes, and feedback from customers and users. Accordingly, the product may have different
features and/or functionality than stated in this presentation. Nimsoft assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or
completeness of the information.
This presentation shall not serve to (i) affect the rights and/or obligations of Nimsoft or its licensees under any existing or
future license agreement or services agreement relating to any Nimsoft software product; or (ii) amend any product
documentation or specifications for any Nimsoft software product. The development, release and timing of any features or
functionality described in this presentation remain at Nimsoft’s sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything in this presentation to
the contrary, upon the general availability of any future Nimsoft product release referenced in this presentation, Nimsoft may
make such release available to new licensees in the form of a regularly scheduled product release. Such release may be made
available to current licensees of the product who are active subscribers to Nimsoft maintenance and support, on a when and if-
available basis. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this paragraph and any other information contained in this
presentation, the terms of this paragraph shall govern.
Nimsoft confidential and proprietary. No unauthorized copying or distribution permitted.
