ELM 5.5 supports users through all their operating system upgrades. All four (4) ELM 5.5 products can be installed on, and monitor, Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise Editions, as well as Windows Vista Ultimate.

ELM 5.5 Standby Server Licenses supports comprehensive Disaster Recovery Programs. Under this new license, Service Agents will failover to a Standby ELM Server when the Home server is unavailable. Once the Home server is back on-line, the Agents will automatically failback. When failures happen, ELM 5.5 provides continuity of service.  See the Standby and Home topic for more details.

With the ELM 5.5 Server installed on a Windows Server 2008 64-bit system, installed Service and remote Virtual Agents will collect, aggregate and trend any published counters from 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

Windows event logs are becoming increasingly noisy. Important Critical and Error events are often diluted in a flood of insignificant events. Instead of complex, operator based Filters; ELM 5.5 provides an easy to use method to combine simple event filters. These filters can be used to create reports and launch alerts under very specific conditions. Equally important, these filter combinations can be used to prevent unwanted events from consuming network and database resources.

Responding to the increasing volume of events being generated in today's environments, ELM 5.5 upgrades the data collection strategy to get more events from more systems with the same resources. The central ELM 5.5 Server is faster, the installed Service Agent footprint is smaller, and the management console is more responsive. The powerful new ELM 5.5 efficiently supports the most demanding networks.

This new reporting tool provides a search feature using detailed event criteria to create informative reports from the management console.

The ELM Console has a Performance Data container with nodes for all the configured performance objects and counters.  Counters without collected performance counter data can be optionally displayed or hidden.  Simply right-click the Performance Data container and select Show Active or Show All in the context menu.

Alert Views and Event Views can dynamically display incoming data as it is received by the ELM Server.  In busy environments, this can be overwhelming making an individual event difficult to see or select.  By right-clicking on an Alerts container or an Event View, you can select Pause from the context menu.  A [Paused] label appears after the View name, and you can peruse the records.  Right-click and select Continue, and the dynamic display resumes.

For Notification Rules that have a more complex set of Filter criteria, you can now easily create an Event View from them.  To do this, select a Rule, and then right-click and select All Tasks -> New Event View.