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Mike Gunderloy, Larkware.com
“It's been about a year since I looked at the
first release of Heroix's Longitude product, which tries
to combine the best features from the high and low end
markets. Specifically, they've aimed for an easy to
use and deploy product with fast ROI that still covers
multiple platforms with comprehensive reporting. In
that time they've pumped out two major upgrades, so
I thought it was about time to run Longitude through
its paces again on my own network ...
Ease of installation remains one of Longitude's strong
suits. Pop in the CD, and fifteen minutes later you've
got a running installation in your browser. The software
is Java-based, and will install on either Windows or
Linux. Out of the box, it has rule sets built in for
monitoring Windows and Unix boxes, Apache, IIS, Exchange,
SQL Server, Oracle, WebSphere, WebLogic, J2EE, and Exchange
servers. Version 3 adds SQL Server 2005 to the list,
as well as InsightManager, OpenManage, and Cisco routers
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Version 3 adds a nice new feature in the form of "correlated
events": you can now take two or more events and create
a synthetic event that only fires if the two of them
occur together. So, for example, if you have a box where
you only want to be alerted of high CPU load when a
particular Active Directory condition exists, you can
create an event representing just that combination ...
Version 3 also brings in basic "close the loop" capability
with the ability to execute actions on monitored computers
via command line execution as well as SNMP traps. There
are a lot of other nice little changes here as well.
SLA monitoring support, for example, has been in the
product from the start, but now you have fine-grained
control over SLA schedules to specify maintenance windows
and other planned downtime. Another nice touch is the
ease with which you can adjust rule thresholds to represent
the actual activity in your own environment. When you
go to manage the thresholds for a rule, Longitude will
show you the historical data that it's collected for
that rule, allowing you to decide what the normal range
is on your network and set exceptional conditions with
a good level of confidence. ”
-Mike Gunderloy of Larkware.com
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