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Cendura Adds New IT Service Management Features, Software Blueprints and Enterprise Integration to Cohesion

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 15:05 CDT

Cohesion 4.0 took systems management to a whole new level -- aggregating all server and software configuration settings into an integrated, single pane of glass that allows systems managers to use its advanced automation capabilities to access, control and manage even the most complicated server, software and IT services configurations. Today, Cendura released Cohesion 4.1 -- further improving IT service management, adding new blueprints, and streamlining integration with a SDK for Java and Web Services.

"Approximately sixty percent of availability and performance errors are due to faulty IT configurations," said Andi Mann, senior analyst for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "Changes are routine in IT operations and once you understand what's going on in your environment, you are in a better position to improve compliance, reduce time spent on tracking down problems, and reduce costs. In short, the need for automated configuration management has never been greater."

Cohesion 4.1 includes many new capabilities to enhance data center management and automation including:

Improved IT Service Management

 --  Ad-Hoc IT Service Creation: Instance-based service creation simplifies     the creation and management of IT services by allowing you to easily select     and group network devices, services and the software components that make     up your services. --  Improved Snapshot Management:  By providing you with the ability to     manage configuration snapshots for services, networking devices, and     services, Cendura's improved Snapshot Management allows you to designate     snapshots as "gold" or "baseline."  You can use them in the future as     reference snapshots in change detection or server comparison.      

Enterprise Integration

 --  Cohesion SDK: Cohesion SDK provides Web services and JAVA API's to     make it easier to integrate with other systems management applications to     extract server, software or IT service configuration information. --  Cohesion Bridget to AlterPoint Device Authority:  This Bridge allows     you to import network devices that are discovered by Device Authority into     Cohesion. --  Server Import/Export:  With Cohesion's server import capabilities, you     can import a group of services from an Excel, SML or SCV formatted file     into Cohesion Server Management views.  In addition, you can export servers     discovered and managed by Cohesion into Excel, XML or CSV formatted files.      

New Software Support

Cohesion 4.1 includes new Blueprints designed to discover and manage the configuration of:

 --  Operation systems:  SUSE, Free BSD --  Databases:  MySQL, Oracle 10g (update), Adaptive Server 11.5 --  Messaging Systems: IBM Websphere MQ6, MQ Manager 6, MQ Data 6, MQ     Queue Manager 6 --  Enterprise Applications:  Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 --  Application Servers:  Microsoft .Net Framework --  Cluster Servers:  Microsoft Cluster Server      

For a complete list of available Blueprints, go to: http://www.cendura.com/products/products_blueprint.htm

About Cendura

Cendura Corporation automates the process of server, software and IT service management by providing software that enables enterprises to dramatically manage distributed system change, complexity and compliance. Its Cohesion software helps IT organizations proactively manage and automate changes to the IT infrastructure underlying distributed business applications and services. It does this by discovering, mapping, auditing, and correcting configurations of the related IT assets. Cohesion's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a datacenter's comprehensive "source of truth" -- keeping track of the actual configurations of IT assets across servers, software components or IT services. This enables companies to rapidly identify and remedy existing or potential Business Service problems.

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SOURCE: Cendura Corporation

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