Verax NMS

Verax NMS is a highly scalable, integrated network management and IT service assurance solution for cross-silos management and monitoring of networks, data centers and applications. Verax NMS was developed by Verax Systems. Verax NMS helps management of large enterprises, IT infrastructure and networks by providing scalability and flexibility in mission-critical environments.
Overview
Verax NMS provides full FCAPS functionality for both infrastructure and application monitoring. The key features include node and application discovery, visualization of network topologies and business aspects with drill-down capabilities, user-defined dashboards, correlation and management of events, alarm handling, gathering performance data and others.
Supported hardware and applications
Verax NMS architecture is plugin based. Each managed entity (either a node or an application) is designed as a plug-in.
Supported hardware
Verax NMS supports over 1900 types of network elements from vendors such as Cisco, HP, Brocade/Foundry, Juniper, Adva and others, as well as Unix and Windows hosts. Other devices may be managed using the built-in, standard SNMP MIB-2 plugin.
Supported applications
Verax NMS provides management plugins for:
* Database systems such as Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and others.
* Application servers such as Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, JBoss and others.
* Web-servers: Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Server.
* Microsoft business applications: Exchange and Active Directory.
* Messaging systems: ActiveMQ.
Virtualization
Verax NMS is virtualization-aware and provides management plugins for and Citrix.
Business rules and IT automation
Verax NMS is equipped with a JRuby-based business rules/scripting engine allowing to create IT automation scenarios such as: “if a service does not respond, restart the virtual machine hosting the service”.
SOA readiness
Verax NMS supports Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is open for integration with other systems via SOAP or RMI. It is also compatible with Enterprise Service Bus products such as TIBCO.
Technology and system requirements
Verax NMS has been implemented as a three-tier Java Enterprise application using Adobe Rich Internet technology as the front end.
Server side
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*IBM WebSphere
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*IBM DB2
*Microsoft SQL Server
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*Apache Tomcat
*JBOSS
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*Linux
*FreeBSD
*Open Solaris
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Verax NMS can also run in distributed environments for improved performance and fault tolerance.
Client side
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Mobile client
Verax NMS mobile client application operates on following platforms:
* Android (2.0 and above).
* iPhone (iOS 3.0 and above).
* Windows Mobile (5.0 and above).

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