OpenMaster SLM Application Governor for Lotus Notes/Domino

Managing enterprise-wide middleware

Lotus Notes/Domino is an exceptionally rich middleware platform, supporting workflow management, document bases, multi-protocol email, and web servers across an enterprise-wide network of replicated databases, possibly on multiple hardware platforms interconnected  across multiple LANs and WANs. Managing the distributed Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure is a challenge in itself. Managing its multiple interactions with applications, systems, databases and networks requires an industrial-strength solution.

Some Lotus Notes/Domino management issues are common to all distributed applications, while others are specific to Lotus Notes/Domino:

• Ensuring satisfactory availability: problems that occur could be caused by the Lotus Notes/Domino application itself or by other elements of the IT infrastructure, such as systems or networks. Application Governor for Lotus Notes/Domino speeds diagnosis of the location and reason of the failure.
• Administering sophisticated technologies requires considerable expertise. Shortening the learning curve will improve cost-effectiveness and accelerate problem resolution
• For email and workflow applications, every minute of downtime impacts responsiveness. By definition, the sun never sets on worldwide web users. And, in multinational companies, Lotus Notes/Domino servers are usually installed in multiple time zones. Which, together, imply a need for 24x7 management.
  Depending on your organizational and geographical constraints, you could do this by setting up a single worldwide center or by rotating control between two or three regional centers. Either solution demands the ability to manage multiple distributed resources from a single point of control

Application Governor for Lotus Notes/Domino provides:

• Control of multiple Lotus Notes/Domino instances through a clear and simple user interface, from a single point of control
• Monitoring and fault management, with the centralization of alarms coming from various layers of the business process
• Hierarchical maps oriented to Lotus Notes/Domino user vision: Lotus Notes/Domino servers on system, Lotus Notes/Domino databases on server, mailboxes on server, add-in tasks, statistics,...
• Simple and fast navigation between maps
• Proactive remote management tasks, such as starting or stopping a Lotus Notes/Domino server, logon to a remote server, starting the Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Console
• Alerts to monitor Lotus Notes/Domino, memory, status of Lotus Notes/Domino systems, Lotus Notes/Domino instances,...