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Monolith Releases 3.2
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Monolith Releases Version 3.2
Monolith Software.s 3'2 Release Delivers Industry Leading New Features
Chicago, IL - August, 2007 - Privately held Monolith Technology Holdings (dba Monolith Software) today announced release of version 3.2 of their Technology Management software. The 3.2 release adds functionality that allows Monolith to deliver a single solution for customers aiming to proactively manage and monitor their entire IT Infrastructures. Available immediately, version 3.2 builds on numerous new advanced features that enable it to proactively monitor any environment.
"Version 3.2 is a strategic release for Monolith. With version 3.2, we are delivering exciting enhancements that will further strengthen Monolith's ability to meet the needs of service providers and leading edge enterprises. With version 3.2 customers can monitor and manage fault, performance, and availability of any technology via any format." said Jeff Parker, President of Monolith Software. "Monolith had a number of key design objectives for 3.2" said Shawn Ennis, CTO. "With version 3.2, Monolith Software has set the bar for flexibility, low maintenance, and time-to-value in the ETM space."
Monolith's version 3.2 technology release has yielded breakthroughs in dashboarding and metric collection. Monolith Dashboard Engine is a pure web-based, plug-in free dashboard engine capable of representing availability, fault and performance metrics. The release of Metric Manager expands Monolith.s capabilities by adding availability and performance management to the Monolith arsenal. Other notable features in 3.2 are full failover & redundancy and the ability to administer the solution from a browser based interface (no more ssh or telnet required).
Monolith announces the following enhancements to Monolith's Technology Management Suite:
| Enhanced Broker |
Adds enhanced failover/fail back capabilities, Stop/Start/Run Now functionalities with the Services & Jobs, Remote Log Viewer, Remote File Editor, and multi-threaded execution. |
| Licensing Engine |
Allows for accessing, viewing, and controlling your licensed components through the web user interface. Login user interface provides visibility of license status. |
| Custom Dashboard Engine |
Adds the creation of user defined custom dashboards to be created in a Visio style fashion through a pure browser interface 100% free of Java & Active-X. Supports not only event based dashboards but also performance based metrics which is a key differentiator from our major competitors. |
| AJAX Device Searching |
Adds a new AJAX based device search engine making navigation extremely easy for large environments. |
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Event Manager is Monolith's cornerstone product. Event Manager offers a superior choice for clients that desire to implement a centralized event & log management solution for their NOC or SOC.
| Dashboard Libraries |
Leverage the Core ITM Dashboard Engine to present fault/event based data based upon customer defined models. |
| Alerts Engine |
A simple web based user interface for creating filter based notifications. |
| New Aggregators |
Email (POP3), HPOV NNM, ICMP Ping, TL1, generic d/b, tcp sever/client |
| New Event Sources Supported |
Zabbix, OpenNMS, Hyperic, Nimsoft, Cittio, Microsoft MOM, Nortel Optera, Ciena, DPS Telecom |
| Enhanced Gauge View |
Replaced the old Flash based gauge view with technology from the new Dashboard Engine. Gauges are AJAX & SVG based showing filter status quickly & efficiently. |
| Enhanced Aggregator Capabilities |
Major enhancements to the aggregators include: multi-threading, Fail-over/Fail-back, Local Store & Forward, and Broker controlled Redundancy Support |
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Event Reporter is Monolith historical event reporting solution.
Event Reporter is Monolith historical event reporting solution.
| User Audit Reporting |
Tracking User actions across any system, application, or authentication engine. Example uses include: Active Directory Login/Logout/Changes, Cisco VPN login/logout, Cisco Secure ACS login/logouts |
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Action Manager is Monolith's run book automation system providing escalation/notification, ticketing integration, custom correlation engine and knowledge base functions.
| Watcher Correlation |
Watcher is a virtual operator (aka event correlation engine) allowing customer correlation engine allowing custom correlation and creation between any event(s) and any other event(s) within the system |
| Knowledge Base |
Action Manager provides a Wiki based knowledgebase engine for integrating run book actions and best practices into your management system. Ideal for Operations, it allows companies to retain intellectual capital and enforce a more process oriented operations group. |
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Inventory Manager been enhanced to include some powerful new reporting capabilities
| Network Inventory |
Provides key network inventory statistics on interfaces, routes, ARP tables, CDP tables, neighbor information, port counts and usage. Client side filtering and server side pagination were added to the 3.2 release. |
| Switch Utilization Report |
Useful report for any organization needing to upgrade their network. This is especially useful for organization planning to deploy IP telephony. Reports on number of devices by type, total ports, ports in use, ports by type (access versus uplink) and interface utilization. |
| Inventory Overview |
Provides an overview of devices and interfaces based upon category, speed, status, type and utilization. |
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New Module – Metric Manager
Metric Manager is the industries first solution that acts as a Manager of Manager for availability and performance based metrics. With this module, customers can collect performance data from any source and provide detailed performance graphs and TopN Report Generation. Metric Manager has its own pollers for collecting and storing metrics, as well as supports the concept of collectors. Collectors grab data from existing solutions already in use in your organization to allow you to present that data within Metric Manager's consolidated user interface.
| Synthetic Transaction Monitor |
Application transactions can be run at any interval to test supporting infrastructure performance and availability. Supports both Web based and signed client applications. Command-line and Wintask agents |
| Collectors/Connectors |
Monolith can collect information form nearly any data source enabling an organization to leverage current technology investments. Generic (SOAP), Generic TCP Server/Client, Generic Flat File; Generic Database (MySQL, MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle, Postgres) |
| Top N Reporting |
Provides consolidated Top N Reporting from any data in the system, revealing the top infrastructure offenders. This allows you to quickly identify problems and prioritize response. |
| Performance Graphs |
Provides consolidated Top N Reporting from any data in the system, revealing the top infrastructure offenders. This allows you to quickly identify problems and prioritize response. |
| Advanced Thresholding |
Advanced thresholding engine that supports setting multiple threshold levels per metric, notifications of breaches by event, email or page, and customizing notifications based upon user defined criteria (e.g. only notify if three consecutive breaches occur). |
| IP SLA (SAA) Reporting |
An automated solution for collecting, storing, graphing, presenting and thresholding Cisco IP SLA based data in a highly useable, scalable manner. |
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About Monolith
Monolith was founded in 2002 by seasoned professionals from the technology industry. Our principals have a combined experience of over 35 years working for top tier organizations such as Cisco, Siemens, Motorola, Windward Consulting, ITC Deltacom, and Netigy. Our founders have held regional and national positions for these major companies in many capacities including but not limited to Executive Management, sales leadership, consulting, operations management, and project management.
More relevant than who we worked for is the experience we possess and the organizations that we have helped. Our rich history in providing Enterprise Technology Management solutions reads like a Who's Who list of the nations top service provider and enterprise customers.
When you work with Monolith you are aligning yourself with top caliber industry professionals who have the experience base to design and deliver value driven solutions. Enterprise Technology Management is our only focus. Our objective is to be the recognized industry leader in the markets we serve and to change the way companies view technology management solutions.
For more information:
Jeff Parker
Monolith Technology
Phone: +1 312-881-7346
Email: sales@monolith-software.com
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