ELM Enterprise Manager Reviews

ELM Enterprise Manager 3.0 is a monitoring and management system that enables system administrators and DBAs to gauge the health of their systems at a glance. ELM Enterprise Manager enables the automation of a variety of administrative functions for Windows-based servers, as well as other TCP/IP devices and services. The product architecture is a Windows 2000 client/server application containing the ELM Server component, ELM Console component, and an independent Web-based, read-only console. The architecture also includes agent processes that perform monitoring duties.

ELM Enterprise Manager provides a variety of services: real-time performance monitoring based on the Windows Performance Monitor API, event collection and consolidation of Windows Event Logs, service monitoring, process monitoring, and strong cluster monitoring. Query-based monitoring of SQL Server is supported. So anything you can find out about SQL Server through a query is a possible monitoring and management opportunity. ELM Enterprise Manager also provides end-to-end monitoring of Microsoft Exchange Server, covering everything from performance to quality of service. And the product provides support for WMI, TCP port monitoring, and TCP/IP application-based monitoring of SNMP, syslogs, HTP/HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, and PING.

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ELM Enterprise Manager, from TNT Software, allows you to monitor all your servers from a single console. Not only that, but it automates or enhances many of the monitoring capabilities built into Windows NT and Windows 2000, although you can monitor non-Windows servers too. It also has archiving and reporting functions for the data collected from your servers.

There are many reasons why I like this software-a lot. It's simple to install and extremely easy to use; the documentation is well organized, understandable and a nice manageable 49 pages. I spent a lot of time trying to break it or get inconsistent performance and couldn't. Not even once. Also, when I sent a support request via e-mail to TNT software, I got a helpful response less than a half-hour later. This was for an unregistered evaluation version of the software. Finally, everything about the product gave me the impression that the developers who built it paid a lot of attention to detail and let their QA folks go over it thoroughly.