EM7 is Jack of All Trades
Recently, I happened across a discussion on LinkedIn where an Architect at a Network Solutions Vendor was looking for a management framework specifically around deploying tools, information, and...
View ArticleEnterprise Network Management Systems: Notes from the Architect
OK. You’ve got a huge task before you. You walk into an organization where you have an Event Management tool, a Network Management application, a Help Desk application, performance management...
View ArticleEnterprise Network Management Systems: User Interfaces
Ever watch folks and how they use various applications? When you do some research around the science of Situation Awareness, you realize that human behavior in user interfaces is vital to understanding...
View ArticleSimplify or Die! (SOD)
One of the anomalies I see in products today is the propensity to keep adding in more complexity into an already complex application. Many management applications fall into this scenario. This is a...
View ArticleEM7: Perfectly Suited for the Cloud
Recently, at Interop NY I presented a free educational session through the InteropNet NOC that covered lessons learned in a cloud service provider environment with relation to ScienceLogic’s EM7...
View ArticleEM7 Dynamic App Development
Dynamic Application development in EM7 is easy and a lot of fun. A Dynamic Application in EM7 is used to gather statistics, configuration data, performance data, set thresholds, and setup alerts and...
View ArticleEM7 Countdown
Well, we agreed that we were doing our own take on the “12 Days of Christmas”, but this was too good not to pass on. Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, enjoy these reports that EM7 sends out. Sing...
View ArticleDashboard Heaven with EM7
In the quest for custom dashboards for network management, EM7 has you covered. Dashboards, in many enterprise management integrations, are hard. You start off with one product that does network...
View ArticleThe Road to Cloud: Starting with Virtualization
The folks over at ReadWriteCloud recently posted a contest to gather responses to some burning questions about how companies are gearing up for the cloud. ReadWriteCloud thinks that the basics are...
View ArticleJust Reboot? Think Again…
I’ve noticed, over the past ten years or so, a growing propensity to “just reboot” when problems happen. This is a trend that was covered by Paul Valenzia at Infoworld, in an article called “The...
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