Case Study: Global 500 Banking Company |
Challenges
- Uses their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite to solve the following business challenges:
- Unplanned system downtime was high and I needed to know why
- Lot of finger-pointing during problem diagnosis
- Domain experts spent a lot of time in routine fire-fighting
- Help desk was not able to contribute much to problem diagnosis and isolation
- Users knew of problems before operations staff did
Environment
- Use their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite to monitor the following components:
- Windows OS
- Linux
- Solaris
- Apache Web Server
- ASP.NET Server
- BEA Tuxedo
- IBM HTTP Server
- IBM MQ Series
- IIS Web Server
- MS File Server
- MS MQ Server
- Oracle Database Server
- SiteMinder Policy Server
- Sun Java Messaging Server
- Sun Java Web Server
- Sun Java Application Server
- Corilllian Voyager
- WebLogic Server
- WebSphere Application Server
- Monitors 800 physical servers with their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite.
Benefits
- Use their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite to:
- Get an overview of where the bottlenecks are
- Troubleshoot performance problems
- Monitor and report on compliance with SLAs
- Monitor real-time of business services
- Monitor real-time of specific components
- Monitor end to end the infrastructure
- Generate reports for management
- To plan capacity
- Found the following features to be most useful:
- Single agent monitoring – one agent per server – for monitoring the OS and applications
- Monitoring of virtual infrastructures (VMware, Citrix Xen, etc.) with a single agent (In-N-Out monitoring)
- Layer model of applications to clearly highlight which layer is a problem
- Real-time monitoring and alerting
- Integration console and monitoring of custom applications
- Started seeing value two weeks or less after installing their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite.
- Three most significant benefits of their eG Innovations Enterprise Suite were:
- Identifying the cause of complex problems that involve multiple domains
- Letting lower-skilled support staff use the solution and reducing the need for experts to be called in
- Its ability to offer this solution as a self-service tool for end-users or customers to monitor their infrastructure
| Source: | Global 500 Banking Company | TVID: 04A-BDD-DB5 |
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Source Info: Global 500 Banking Company



