Application Management and System Monitoring Data Collectors   theGuard! ApplicationManager permits detailed monitoring, analysis, and control of diverse software systems and applications through specifically developed data collectors (DC). Modeled information permits equal handling of all applications. This facilitates operation and information analysis across larger IT landscapes, allowing even small IT teams to guarantee the availability and performance of complex applications. Service Level Agreements are easily met. Permanent logging of all available data through theGuard! ApplicationManager is a prerequisite for targeted tuning measures, capacity analyses, and utilization-based service billing.

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Data collectors are available for the following systems and applications: SAP applications and architectures:  R3, NetWeaver for ERP, APO / SRM / SCM, CRM, BI, PI, ITS   Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Max-DB   Mail and Web servers: Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), any Web, mail or file server   Operating systems (32 and 64-bit): HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux (SLES, RHEL)   Virtual systems for following platforms: Fujitsu Siemens Computers FlexFrame, IBM AIX LPAR, HP VIS, Solaris Zones, VMware      The data collectors also support clustered applications and automatically take on application instances that change the physical computer in case of a cluster switch.

Monitoring of General Applications

Additional applications can be comprehensively monitored through the combination of various other data collectors:

• Application process monitoring using operating system data collectors
• Log monitoring using the file parser data collector 
• Application monitoring using the custom data collector
• Internet services monitoring using the NetService data collector
  

A special information aggregation feature allows administrators to use functionalities such as monitoring, reporting, service level management or the visualization in business maps as if an individual data collector were available for each of these applications.