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ELM Environmental MonitoringEnvironmental monitoring is critically important to business enterprises. The computer and network equipment room must operate within a specific range of environmental conditions. If conditions exceed that range, unpredictable and potentially catastrophic results such as system failure, application failure, or network problems, can occur. The most common cause of environmental problems in the equipment room is air conditioning failure leading to high temperatures, humidity problems, gas leakage and water leakage. The costs of such catastrophic events are interrupted business and dissatisfied customers. Using ELM Enterprise Manager's ability to receive SNMP traps as events or using the SNMP Monitor, environmental sensor devices may be installed in a facility and ELM Enterprise Manager sends alerts and notification in real time when environmental factors exceed tolerance. The choice of receiving traps or using the SNMP Monitor depends upon the individual company policies and procedures. Using the trap-receiving technique, the responsible staff is immediately notified when a sensor exceeds its tolerance. Using the SNMP Monitor, the device is checked by ELM Enterprise Manager on a scheduled basis. Both can be used at the same time, providing peace of mind../... Read the rest of this White Paper for details. 
New in ELM 4.0ELM Advisor appears as a desktop notification, much like
an instant message or anti-virus icon. It displays the real-time status on your
systems monitored by ELM. The ELM Advisor notification is set up through the
ELM Console Notification container and can be configured to send messages to
one or more Windows desktops where the ELM Advisor is running. ELM Advisor
gives the user a choice of five responses for each event type:
The ELM Advisor desktop notification also displays a list of messages received via the ELM Advisor notification method. Messages can be marked as read, or they can be deleted. Suggested Use: these messages can be used as a to-do list of issues which need attention. At a Glance Views are displayed in the ELM Console when you
select one of the following objects:
These views are summaries of current status information, each within a specific context. For example, when the ELM Server is selected, you see information about application outages across all monitored systems. If the Outages container is selected below an Agent, then application outages for just this Agent are displayed. At the ELM Server level, database details are summarized. If database failover has occurred, then the ELM primary database is highlighted in red.
Filter-based data pruning allows the deletion and archiving of data
selected by user defined filter criteria. The ELM Database Wizard gives you the
option of creating an archive database, as well as the ability to add filters
for Alerts or Events. Multiple Filters can be configured at one time and have
the following features:
Using the Event Filter Criteria dialog, filters can be used to selectively archive specific records before pruning, or they can prune matching records without archiving. Pruning will help keep the primary ELM database small and responsive, and will speed intervention by enabling quick investigation through an uncluttered View. A Reorganized ELM Console logically groups
ELM functions into Monitoring, Notification, and Results. These three
functional areas contain the following ELM objects:
We have also built enhancements that streamline the setup and configuration of ELM. Category-based Monitor Items allow
you to set up custom Categories for Agents. These categories can be named to
suit your organization. For example:
Monitor Items are then assigned to these Categories independent of Agents. When an Agent is added to or removed from a Category, the Monitor Items for the Category are automatically assigned to or unassigned from the Agent. Notification Wizard streamlines the
configuration of Notification Rules by combining the output of Monitor Items
with appropriately configured Event Filters. Starting from the selected Monitor
Item, ELM knows what events can be created by this Item, uses this knowledge to
create an appropriate Filter, and then assigns the Filter to a new Notification
Rule. For example, the Ping Monitor will create an error event ID 5506. The
Notification Wizard understands this, and automatically configures an
appropriate Filter.
Agent Updates via the Socket allow
updates to the TNT Agent binaries through the Agent listening port. Once
installed, Service Agent version updates can all be performed from the ELM
Console. This enhances security and convenience by eliminating the requirement
for RPC communications when updating the Agent. As in past versions of ELM,
Agent Configuration Updates will continue to use this same socket
connection.
Innovative Database Management technology
from TNT Software makes more efficient use of the Microsoft SQL database engine
used by Microsoft SQL and MSDE, significantly reducing the I/O required. Database
Failover provides fault-tolerant, continuous collection of monitored
system information. Filter-based archiving and pruning tools are provided with
EEM to efficiently manage critical data and storage costs.
SNMP MIB Parser enhances SNMP usability by
providing a MIB files browser and a tree for walking the MIB namespace. The
information provided by the MIB file adds to the namespace provided by the
Windows SNMP service and helps to give a more complete view of the SNMP
environment. If the MIB file contains SNMP trap information, it can be expanded
through the SNMP Monitor.
Integrated ASP.NET Reporting uses the
latest dynamic web application technology from Microsoft. The ELM Reports
Manager has been integrated into the ELM Console and takes advantage of ASP.NET
compiled web forms. The reports are integrated back into ELM data collection
and can assign the appropriate Monitor Items required by the report.
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