Nearly a month has gone by already since I started learning here at New Horizons Waltham.  The width and breathe of what I know now, really connects all the dots.  How all the different pieces of web design, web development and deployment are quite incredible in their potential.  I have had many discussions with people about the Microsoft world compared to the Linux world in relation to how web development occurs.  On one side the Linux/Apache Tomcat folk say that Linux is more 'open' to developers (code sharing and finding bugs/vulnerabilites).  On the other side is the Microsoft folk who have a power IDE and Microsoft 'Paid' direct support arm to help with issue/problems/vulerabilties.  It's a very interesting  paradigm.  Would love to hear the pros and cons from both sides.

Last week I spoke about the different ways SNMP can be used.  Today i'll speak of some real world examples and discuss why I like Opmanager.  When I first began this topical discussion on SNMP I stated that you can use SNMP as your personal robot to watch your 'technologies' for you 24x7 and report changes, issues and things you should know about.  While SNMP is a very powerful technology it requires care and feeding on your part.  While you have ALL these many, many messges going back and forth you have to break through the chatter and find out the ones that matter.  MangeEngine's Opmanager is very intiuitive, easy to read/understand and has many companion products from ManageEngine quite robust toolset.  Using ManageEngines tools you can monitor/manage:

Web Server server processes both Apache Tomcat and IIS
Monitor WAN links
Monitor Cisco Routers as well as many other routers
Monitor switch traffic level (down to a port level) and switch events
Server events
Website Uptime and downtime
VOIP traffic

These are a just a few of the items you can manage all under one vendor umbrella.  (point of fact:  ManageEngine uses SNMP, WMI and vendor driven proprietary languages to monitor devices).

While I did not discuss WMI (Window Management Instrumentation), this topic is very much worth investigating and learning about.  The odds that the very device you are using to read this post is at this very moment running a WMI service to help monitor and control your desktop operating system.