NetQoS Performance Center Metrics Available in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

Combination Simplifies Network and Application Performance Management and Improves Troubleshooting for Network and Operations Teams

Operations managers and network engineers can now view key performance metrics from NetQoS® Inc. alongside system and network management reports from Microsoft Corp. in order to reduce mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) and improve application delivery.

The NetQoS Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 combines application response time, link traffic analysis, and device performance metrics from the NetQoS Performance Center into the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager console. The combination will enable operations teams to provide superior network and application services via an enterprise view of the relationship between infrastructure use and application performance.

“Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors servers, applications, and clients across the enterprise to provide an end-to-end view of the health of an organization’s IT environment,” said Robert Reynolds, director of System Center product management at Microsoft Corp. “With the combination of NetQoS Performance Center views and passive performance data collection with System Center Operations Manager, customers have rich capabilities to quickly identify the performance-related events that are having a detrimental impact on service quality.”

The combination provides an at-a-glance view of network, server, and application performance across an organization with continuously updated summary reports, including performance by application, incidents by network, and top enterprise protocols. This diagnostic data along with real-time alerts on performance degradations will help operations teams decrease MTTR and improve operational efficiency and collaboration. For more detailed troubleshooting and analysis, each view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides a direct link to the NetQoS Performance Center and its component modules.

“Combining performance metrics with fault-based metrics has become a necessity rather than a luxury to effectively manage today’s complex networks and ensure optimal application delivery,” said Gordon Daugherty, vice president of corporate development for NetQoS. “The ability to view NetQoS Performance Center data in System Center Operations Manager 2007 is an important step in enabling IT operations teams, especially those in larger organizations, to manage their networks for application performance. Rather than using multiple consoles and products for troubleshooting, operations teams can now view all the information they need to solve problems from a single platform.”

The following table lists the NetQoS Performance Center views that are available in the System Center Operations Manager console:

Capability            NetQoS Performance Center View
Application Response Time Monitoring                Performance by Application
               Performance by Network
               Performance by Server
               Incident List by Network
               Incident List by Server
 
Link Traffic Analysis         Top Interface Utilization
               Top Enterprise Protocols
               Top Enterprise Hosts
               Routers with the Most NetFlow Traffic
               Top Flows by Interface
 
Device Performance         Top Interfaces Table
               Top Router CPU Utilization
               Top Server CPU Utilization
               Top Router Memory Utilization
               Top Server Memory Utilization
 
The NetQoS Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is available now and free of charge to NetQoS and Microsoft customers. NetQoS is a Microsoft Systems Center Alliance partner. Visit NetQoS at the Microsoft Management Summit 2008, to be held April 28-May 2 in Las Vegas.