Longitude V3: EMA Weighs In

Following are excerpts from an analysis of Longitude V3 by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Read full article ... (PDF).

Cost-Effective

"Longitude is uniquely positioned as a cost-effective alternative to expensive, high end monitoring solutions. Heroix has priced the product extremely competitively by building it over an easily extensible, object-oriented architecture and by leveraging Open Source software to a remarkable degree ... This has enabled Heroix to provide a robust, stable platform at a very reasonable price point."

"When combined with agentless technology, ease of deployment, and hefty functionality, this package is hard to beat."

Simplifies Deployment and Maintenance

"The fact that Longitude was a totally new product in 2005 and was written from the ground up using modern technology is a definite plus in a market crammed with legacy solutions that can be a nightmare to deploy and upgrade ... the agentless technology simplifies deployment and maintenance for the customer as well as development and support costs for the vendor."

Fewer, More Meaningful Alerts

"Configured via a web-based user interface, [event correlation] allows organizations to specify how technical events are “translated” to business events that explain technical issues in “plain English” language. It also includes correlation algorithms that, using intelligent event evaluation, result in fewer, more meaningful alerts."

Eliminate Trial and Error

"Workload thresholding ... collects and stores device data and utilizes AJAX technology to streamline the presentation of information to the user. It then spotlights actual usage patterns, helping to eliminate trial and error in threshold configuration."

Scalable Notifications

"This capability allows SNMP Traps, emails or commands to be executed when a given event takes place ... This functionality can help an organization reach a “lights out management” level of monitoring and management capability."

Well-Thought Out

"It is obviously well-thought out, bargain priced in today’s market, and produced by a company that strives to make its customers happy. Especially with the new notification capability, which enables communication with management platforms, email systems and paging servers, this product includes all the monitoring essentials. Especially for companies looking for a solution between free and enterprise-grade, Longitude V3 is definitely a product to add to the evaluation list."

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