Dirig Offers WebSphere MQ Management
Tailored to the Server
System management software vendor Dirig Software Inc. has released a tool designed specifically to monitor and manage WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries) servers.
WebSphere MQ SAM is the latest in Dirig’s line of Specific Application Manager (SAM) products. SAMs are a component of Dirig’s management suite, which consists of specialized agents running on a server, a management server, and SAMs, preset thresholds and alerts tailored to a specific application.
Dirig’s products monitor servers at a low level, watching out for processor utilization, software conflicts, protocol stacks, and the like. Dirig offers a variety of agents, each dedicated to monitoring a different aspect of system performance. The agents spit this data to a management server, which relies on SAMs to interpret the raw data to determine how conditions affect application performance.
Administrators can access information through a browser; the management server offers Web pages with diagrams for a view into system performance. WebSphere MQ SAM can also plug into enterprise management frameworks like Tivoli and OpenView.
Dirig offers SAMs for a number of other middleware platforms, including WebSphere Application Server, SunONE Application Server, and WebLogic. Dirig also supports products like DB2, the Apache Web server, and Lotus Domino.
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Chris McConnell is Product and Technology Editor for Enterprise Systems.