Software helps pinpoint potential business process problems.
Press Release Summary:
Splunk for Unicenter NSM provides seamless workflow and data integration between Unicenter NSM r11 and Splunk Professional. It enables CA customers to drill down from Unicenter NSM console and directly launch Splunk browser interface to search for events related to host or device being monitored. Software also seamlessly indexes and allows Unicenter NSM users to search and navigate Unicenter NSM events with other types of IT data from any service, application, or device in real-time.
Original Press Release:
Splunk Introduces Splunk for Unicenter NSM Through Partnership with CA
ntegration of Splunk Professional With CA's Unicenter NSM Helps Enterprises Streamline Troubleshooting of Complex Data Center Problems
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 / -- Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search engine for fast moving IT data, today introduced and made available an integrated module that provides seamless workflow and data integration between CA's systems management product, Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) and Splunk Professional-Splunk for Unicenter NSM.
"Today's service oriented architectures are extremely challenging to manage-even for the most skilled and efficient IT staffs," said Melvin Estrada, business and product manager for CA. "By providing customers with increased visibility into the data generated by CA's Unicenter NSM, Splunk enables IT support personnel to quickly pinpoint and respond to potential problems before they adversely impact critical business processes."
Splunk Professional indexes and links together all the IT data generated by any system, application or device making it possible to search and navigate production IT infrastructures. Unicenter NSM r11 unifies and simplifies management of complex, multi-vendor environments and enables organizations to cost-effectively ensure the health, performance, and responsiveness of business critical IT services.
Splunk for Unicenter NSM enables administrators to search an up-to-the-minute index of Unicenter NSM events, along with other network or system events, in real-time. The combination can dramatically improve service availability and operations efficiency by reducing the mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), especially for more complex problems.
Splunk for Unicenter NSM
Splunk for Unicenter NSM provides seamless workflow and data integration between Unicenter NSM r11 and Splunk Professional. The software enables CA customers to drill down from the Unicenter NSM console and directly launch the Splunk browser interface to search for events related to the host or device being monitored. It also seamlessly indexes and allows Unicenter NSM users to search and navigate Unicenter NSM events with other types of IT data including logs, configurations, message queues, JMX notifications, SNMP traps and database transactions from any service, application or device.
With Splunk for Unicenter NSM, customers can:
o Eliminate up to 90% of the time spent manually analyzing logfiles and other data from production systems after incidents are detected.
o Enable IT support personnel to perform faster and more accurate troubleshooting by providing access to IT data in real-time.
o Identify root cause and restore IT services faster.
o Reduce incident response time and cost while improving IT support personnel productivity.
Splunk Professional has received the ca smart seal of excellence, which is awarded to products that integrate seamlessly with CA's Unicenter NSM, enabling customers to take advantage of best-in-class enterprise technologies while minimizing cost, time-to-benefit and risk.
"Splunk for Unicenter NSM provides IT Administrators with a way to get the information they need about their data center in real time when issues are escalated to level two or level three support," said Michael Baum, chief executive splunker. "Our customers tell us that the combination of a comprehensive management system like Unicenter NSM with the ability to quickly troubleshoot problems with Splunk Professional is a powerful means to improve and maintain service availability."
About Splunk
Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We're making the world's IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.
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