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EFFICIENT ENT-TO-END INFRASTRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT


Central business processes, which are the key to the economic success of a Company are today more than ever dependent on the services provided by information technology, in order to meet their business needs and satisfy their corporate aims.

Different systems, server and desktop applications at the various locations of the company must work together perfectly over the IT network.
Errors, fluctuations in performance or indeed breakdowns cost MONEY - and the longer it takes to identify and correct a fault, the more it costs.

To manage the whole staff you need automated Performance & Reporting solution which provide a model of network and server performance
based on real data, thus maximizing the performance of the whole IT infrastructure and the strategic value of the IT Communication. The IT department is given a view from the user's side, allowing it to concentrate on important business processes - e.g. customer inquiries are answered in a reasonable time or SLA's complied with.

IT managers are given a complete overview of current faults, as well as historic performance trends, enabling them to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems in good time. The company management obtains a realtime view of the performance from a business point of view, classified by areas and processes, e.g. whether a call center is able to process an additional 1000 calls per day.

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END-TO-END INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT WITH EHEALTH

As businesses increasingly leverage technology to gain competitive advantage, the Internet infrastructure - made up of networks, systems, and applications - becomes a strategic business asset that mandates constant management. Managing the complete end-to- end infrastructure involves not only managing the individual components, but also the entire service experience delivered by the combined components.

Concords eHealth Suite provides the comprehensive solution for automating technology management of the complete end-to-end infrastructure. The eHealth Suite combines fault and performance management across applications, systems, and networks, providing both real-time management and complete performance history. By combining modular, best-of-breed network, system, and application management products into a single integrated view, eHealth Suite enables IT executives and managers to rapidly achieve operational control of their entire end-to-end infrastructure and strategic business processes.

Details generated by eHealth are displayed in reports and visual interfaces providing you with a concise, yet comprehensive picture of the entire
infrastructure.

It will enable you to:

  • Identify and analyse potential end-to-end issues real-time and automatically notify appropriate IT personnel
  • Manage faults for network devices, systems, and applications
  • Manage performance of Frame Relay, LANs, WANs, Routers, Switches, ATM, Remote Access Equipment, QoS, Wireless LAN, DSL, VoIP, and Cable technologies
  • Generate customized views of the performance of your services spanning applications, systems, and networks
  • Measure and monitor actual end-user application response time in any commercial or custom Windows or Web applications that are TCP/IP based
  • Manage systems and applications for Windows and UNIX
  • Facilitate tests of response time and availability of Internet services, business applications, and network services
  • Generate reports to document service level agreements (SLAs) by customer, region, and technology for executives, IT managers, and technical personnel
  • Provide reports for capacity planning, probable fault detection, and service level documentation
  • Manage major off-the-shelf applications like e-mail, Web servers, databases, firewalls, and network services

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Information package

If you are interested in more information about End-to-End Infrastructure and Performance Management please order our Information package by eMail.

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Content of the package e.g.
The eHealth Content Guide provides a in-depth explanation of sample reports and displays and is designed to present the insight necessary to:

  • optimize IT performance,
  • enable informed capacity planning decisions,
  • spot trends,
  • speed time to problem resolution,
  • enable quick roll-out of revenue generating services,
  • and identify potential problems before they affect your users and customers.

REAL-TIME MONITORING, PERFORMANCE AND FAULT MANAGEMENT

A standalone performance management solution tells you what's about to break whereas a standalone fault management solution informs you of what's broken. Using these two solutions separately leads to unacceptable MTTR because there are too many false alarms, GUIs and databases are different, and you are unable to establish context to raw data because alarms are not associated with history.

To help you overcome these challenges, eHealth Suite integrates performance and fault management across applications, systems, and networks in a single personalized business view, provides association with performance history, and stores data in a single database. You are able to reduce your MTTR because you can identify critical problems quickly, investigate and fix them within a short period of time.

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SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT

As a service provider or corporate IT manager, you’re responsible for delivering network access and application services to thousands of users in locations world-wide. While you promise to deliver on contracted levels of service, you and your users/clients need to be 100 percent certain you’re meeting your SLA metrics—many of which are attached to financial penalties.

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SYSTEM AND APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

System and application management has risen in importance as companies grow increasingly dependent on their Web servers, database servers, e-mail, and other applications. The consumer-to- business and business-to-business models expose services externally, and there are high expectations for systems/apps managers to provide zero-downtime application services and peak system performance.

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APPLICATION RESPONSE TESTING ON AVAILABILITY OF IP SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS

A company's ability to meet its goals depends to a significant extent on the performance and quality of its information systems.

NewtestT products from Auditec simplify the implementation and follow-up of service level agreements (SLA), both in real time and as the need arises.

NewtestT works by periodically executing pre-recorded operator-defined actions, TCP-IP services, or commands. It uses these simulations to establish a response time reference. Scenarios are created and run automatically at specified intervals in their scheduled calendar.

Measurement and monitoring of the response time, availability and service level provided to users for critical business applications and transactions, at agencies and locally in the production room. Verification of SLA compliance between IT management and the company's business units.

  • "User" response times and accessibility of critical applications from different locations.
  • Operational availability of business processes and critical applications.
  • Response time and availability of each proactive measurement and monitoring of internal application services delivered to the company's different business units by the IT department.
  • End-to-end testing of the operational availability.

The NewtestT suite is aimed at the IT departments of firms, telecom operators, ISPs, ASPs and outsourcing companies that want to offer their customers end-to-end visibility of all types of services, critical applications and business processes.

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GENESIS MANAGED SERVICE (GMS)

The benefits of End-to-End Performance and SLA Management are many, but the size of such a project often exceeds a company's staff resources
and IT budget. The GENESIS service solution makes this an affordable reality from small to large businesses by providing IT Performance and SLA
reporting, together with access to skilled analyst's.


Instead of major investments in software, hardware and services, the company pays an annual user fee for a pre-defined "Managed Service". This
fee covers installation, configuration and all operation. Thus the customer does not have to tie up any additional staff resources, but can immediately
obtain the services offered and benefit from established know-how. Through the training courses and support activities included in the service,
the customer is able to interpret the information obtained correctly, and immediately put in hand the measures needed to increase efficiency.


Managed Reporting Service (MRS)
MRS is a company-wide reporting platform, which displays and documents the quality and availability of the IT processes critical to the business,
independently of the existing IT infrastructure such as routers, switches, servers or LAN/WAN. The overall view not only serves as an information
input for planning and conception, but helps to generate added-value and save costs across the whole IT infrastructure. MRS is designed in such a way that
you can already evaluate the first important results within a month. Thanks to the modular structure, adaptation or expansion to suit changed requirements
for the monitoring service, fault management and reports is easily possible at any time.


MRS Network:
Complete, unbroken monitoring of your network to detect performance bottlenecks, recognize excess capacity and obtain an overall picture of who is using what service.


MRS Server:
Complete, unbroken monitoring of your server systems.


MRS Response:
Information about the availability and quality of IP services, with the aid of reproducible active measurements.


MRS Realtime:
online monitoring and supervision on the basis of realtime data and historical information for the IT infrastructure. Alarm messages
are generated in the integral Fault Management System.


In order that you can make the best use of the data obtained via the reporting process, GENESIS COMMUNICATION also supports you in
evaluating this and helps you find solutions to technical problems (SLA interpretation).


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SEMINARS AND EVENTS

GENESIS COMMUNICATION  offers a variety of half-day technology seminars and we would be very glad to welcoming you.For lLatest information and news about seminars and events please go to www.GenesisCom.ch.


 

JUNE

 

 SUBJECT End-to-End Infrastructure and Performance Management
 Date: Tuesday, 3 June 2003
 Language:  German/English
 Location:   Mövenpick Hotel Zurich-Airport
 Duration: 08.30 am- 12.45 pm followed by lunch

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AGENDA

  • Service Level (SLA) Management and Capacity Planning
  • End-to-End Integrated Management with eHealth
  • System- and Application Management
  • Real-time Monitoring, Performance and Fault Management incl. Demo
  • Application Response Testing on Availability of IP Services and Applications
  • Managed Reporting Services (MRS)
  • IT Infrastructure Documentation and Visualization

This seminar takes place in co-operation with our partner Concord, Auditec and netViz and is free of charge.


 

 SUBJECT End-to-End Infrastructure and Performance Management
 Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2003
 Language:  French/English
 Location:   Mövenpick Hotel ICC, Geneva
 Duration: 08.30 am- 12.45 pm followed by lunch

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AGENDA

  • Service Level (SLA) Management and Capacity Planning
  • End-to-End Integrated Management with eHealth
  • System- and Application Management
  • Real-time Monitoring, Performance and Fault Management incl. Demo
  • Application Response Testing on Availability of IP Services and Applications
  • Managed Reporting Services (MRS)
  • IT Infrastructure Documentation and Visualization

This seminar takes place in co-operation with our partner Concord, Auditec and netViz and is free of charge.

 

 

TRAINING NEWS

NETWORK MANAGEMENT TRAINING

The goal of this training is to understand the basic function of Network Management Technology and the measurement of network and application performance. The IT-Infrastructure gets more complex daily leading to a dramatic increase in the effort to debug it. Insufficient bandwidth is one issue. Network Latency is just as important. The results are intolerable application response time. With suitable measuring methods the issues can be found proactively, saving time, effort and money. .

The training will cover the following topics:

  • Different types of Network Management Systems
  • Basic function of SNMP
  • Distinction of SNMP v1, v2 and v3
  • MIBs and its Information
  • Comparison of Polling and Traps
  • RMON I and II with its twenty groups
  • Relationship between Latency and Throughput
  • Interpretation and measurement of the network latency
  • Interpretation and measurement of application response time
  • Measurement of multi tier applications and the optimization of network and application
  • Advantage of network Monitors and Analyzers

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GENESIS COMMUNICATION provides technology courses about current themes/technologies like DNS, DHCP, network security and network management as well as product specific courses (e.g. QIP, eHealth, NMS etc.) with practical hands-on exercises. Our courses should offer a real value-add and best ROI of our proposed solutions; for our main goal is and will always be total customer satisfaction!

Our training products are:

  1. Standard courses or „Open trainings“ take place either in our training centre in Ostermundigen or by request at the customer's location. For the scheduled dates (Open trainings), participants can subscribe to any course. A detailed course description (flyer) is available for each Standard training.
  2. The customer specific trainings are project-oriented and customized for each individual customer need and specific requirement.
  3. Our trainings are available in German, French and English.

 

Detailed information are available upon request  training@GenesisCom.ch, Phone: +41 (0) 31 560 35 35

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