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Over 8 years ago

Commented on It allows proactive event management for infrastructure and business services.

Hi Wayne, thanks for coming back. Let's start with this: What triggers the webservice call and have you automated the matching of the templates to the monitored configuration items? Can you also please point me to the doc you are referring to? Many thanks! Philippe

Over 8 years ago

Commented on It allows proactive event management for infrastructure and business services.

Can you provide information as to what detailed functionality the product offers? What algorithms, what views, what data feeds, what data outputs ...

Over 8 years ago

Answered a question: Any experience with Event & Incident Analytic engines like Moogsoft?

Hi, I have used CA-Unicenter, CA-SOI and now TESM (OpsDirector). People are misguided in thinking that SOI is an event management product. Similarly, it would be wrong to think of Splunk as that too. Unicenter is obsolete and was very onerous in rules. TESM only works with…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Setup isn't complex compared to other solutions. Scalability is good as well.

Some inaccuracies here, I don't think setup is simple if you want to use advanced features, resilience has been there since the origins of the product, stability is better in version 11.3 than 11.0 but not as good as 4.5

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of AutoSys Workload Automation: Granular Security enables self-service role-based access. There are still too many screens and the use cases need to be handled in a more "compact" way.

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Valuable features include it's speed, uptime and consistency.

Don't use the 11.3.5 web interface (WCC) go to 11.4 directly (backwards compatible with your 11.3.5 scheduler) or upgrade the scheduler and use 11.4

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Valuable features include it's speed, uptime and consistency.

Re. your "lights out" point, use the notification feature to sent exceptions to an event management framework (CA-SOI, Netcool, TESM OpsDirector etc.)

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on The reporting facility of the product helps me to identify problematic jobs in the environment. The graphical interface is not 24/7 for us.

A somewhat surprising review CA WAAE will easily scale up to 50,000 jobs a day per single instance and more if the jobs starts are relatively evenly distributed in time. The vendor claim and a quarter of a million with the recent service pack3 improvements (not verified)…

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of ITRS Geneos: The setup is complex, but it provides us with the ability to monitor much deeper than we previously could.

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Over 8 years ago

Create COBIT based Enterprise IT monitoring benchmark

Create COBIT based Enterprise IT monitoring maturity framework with automated KPI reporting

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Almost 9 years ago

AutoSys Workload Automation

Granular Security enables self-service role-based access. There are still too many screens and the use cases need to be handled in a more "compact" way.

Over 9 years ago

ITRS Geneos

The setup is complex, but it provides us with the ability to monitor much deeper than we previously could.

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Over 8 years ago

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Any experience with Event & Incident Analytic engines like Moogsoft?

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Over 8 years ago

Network Monitoring Software

It allows proactive event management for infrastructure and business services.

Over 8 years ago

Network Monitoring Software

It allows proactive event management for infrastructure and business services.

Almost 9 years ago

Workload Automation

Setup isn't complex compared to other solutions. Scalability is good as well.

Almost 9 years ago

Workload Automation

Valuable features include it's speed, uptime and consistency.

Almost 9 years ago

Workload Automation

Valuable features include it's speed, uptime and consistency.

Almost 9 years ago

Workload Automation

The reporting facility of the product helps me to identify problematic jobs in the environment. The graphical interface is not 24/7 for us.

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Data Analytics for data-driven IT decision-making
Event Management and Monitoring benchmarks
Predictive Models and Anomaly Detection
IT Automation / Orchestration
Architecture, deployment, support and consultancy for IT Enterprise Management software.
Master Data Management, CMDB
ITSM strategy development
Gap analysis, Story based Agile continuous improvement

Specialties: Large Enterprise Management systems, IT consultancy services

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Over 8 years ago

Create COBIT based Enterprise IT monitoring benchmark