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Rick A. Butler, Redmond Magazine
"Longitude from Heroix immediately stood out from
the rest of the pack, in my opinion, as there are no
agents to install on the managed nodes. After breathing
a huge sigh of relief, I dug around in the tool and
found it makes for a great enterprise-level monitoring
solution ..."
Easy Installation
"Installing Longitude was almost obscenely easy
... With many utilities, you'll have to spend time installing
the tool and then rolling out the agents to manage your
target population. With Longitude, you're done in about
10 minutes ..."
Event Correlation
"One cool feature that's not necessarily new --
but is always worthy of mention -- is correlated events.
Essentially, you can set Longitude to flag an event
based on a mixture of different event conditions. You
might say, for example, "Alert me if Server 1's
CPU exceeds 90 percent and disk space falls below five
percent availability." You may not care if the
processor goes over 90 percent by itself, but if that
disk goes below five percent availability while the
CPU is pegged you can have the system fire off an alert.
To do so, you'd configure Event Conditions and tie them
to your correlated event ..."
Service Level Agreements
"Longitude lets you monitor events to keep you
in line with your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) ...
This is nice because it takes the subjectivity out of
the equation and gives you hard data by which to act
on whether or not you're meeting your SLAs ..."
Broad Coverage
"Stepping up from version 3.0 to 4.0, Heroix
added more infrastructure monitoring elements to Longitude.
This means you can monitor things like Cisco routers,
DHCP servers, Active Directory, HP Insight and Dell
OpenManage. Longitude has a broad array of operating
systems and applications it can manage ..."
Event Log Consolidation
"Longitude makes it easy to work through event
log monitoring. It creates filters you can use to sort
through irrelevant events and focus on the ones you
need to see, regardless of the machine or platform on
which the events happened. Having events from a Unix
box alongside Windows events is a nice feature and truly
unifies your system management efforts ..."
Visibility into IT Service
"The ability to create correlated events and reports
and align to established SLAs lets you use Longitude
to map to business expectations quite effectively. This
level of visibility is available with very little intrusion
or investment of time, which makes Longitude well suited
for anyone needing a no-nonsense monitor."
-Rick A. Butler, Redmond Magazine
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