ELM Scalability

The ELM family of solutions meets or exceeds requirements for monitoring today's large-scale implementations:

On the front end, ELM will monitor hundreds of machines and process tens of millions of event log entries every day, gather system performance and diagnostics information, monitor application and server availability, and send real-time notification when things go wrong. In most implementations, a single ELM server will collect, evaluate, and distribute the information as it occurs. This reduces downtime, increases security, increases server and application availability, and escalates the return on investment.

ELM automation of these tasks frees your system engineers to manage more systems and to complete other pressing tasks required by today's regulatory and security demands.

On the back end, ELM will produce meaningful views of that massive amount of data. Summary views and event views can be generated in seconds to give the System Administrator a bird's eye view of consolidated information, an essential analytical tool in times of crisis. Management reports showing critical performance and security conditions can be generated with the built-in, easy-to-use reporting capability of ELM. Management can have important information regarding the health and status of mission critical systems and applications on a regular basis.

ELM supports multi-tier architecture. An ELM server can forward an Alert, Event, Syslog message, or SNMP trap to another ELM server. This allows tiered system configurations or management of multiple systems in multiple locations, all at a single console. Because all communications between ELM servers is encrypted, ELM servers can be located in a DMZ, enabling real-time monitoring and notification without compromising security.

TNT Software's expert sales and technical staff are ready to assist you with evaluating ELM, creating requirements, and planning for implementation and deployment.

If you are responsible for the management of system elements required by large scale implementations the following reading is recommended:

• Sizing Guidelines
• Database Guidelines
• Network Guidelines