Alive Features and Benefits

Integrien Alive™ Release 6.0 provides best-in-class real-time analytics and powerful visualization to dramatically increase operational efficiency and automate data center intelligence. Because of that, most of Alive's capabilities are available nowhere else in the industry, and the benefits of automated intelligence for IT operations are profound. Here's a brief look at some of the key features and benefits of Alive 6.0.


Feature		Benefit

Dynamic Thresholding Determines normal behavior of each metric accounting for seasonal events. Multiple, sophisticated algorithms accurately model different metric behaviors.		Eliminates false positive alerts caused by normal system behaviors Significantly reduces manual alert processing load caused by static thresholds Eliminates static threshold management Illuminates potential problems that static thresholds mask

Alert to Alert Correlation Determines the behavioral relationships between all alerts. Automatically predicts future problem behaviors based on currently active alerts.		Provides IT staff with the ability to head off costly performance and availability problems before they affect end users Reduces total number of alerts

Metric to Metric Correlation Determines the behavioral relationships between all metrics. Identifies the complex interdependencies between business services that cannot be identified by traditional systems management tools.		Enhanced visibility into how problems in one device, tier or business service affect others Facilitates proactive problem solving across business services

Problem Fingerprint™ Correlation When problems occur, a model of the behaviors that led to the problem is captured. In real time, the models are correlated to current system behaviors to predict re-occurrences.		The first time a problem occurs, the Problem Fingerprint provide a forensics tool to speed MTTI/MTTR Predictive alerts on re-occurrences allow prevention of problems before they occur

Intelligent Alerting with Topology Based Aggregation Alerts only to true abnormal precursors to real problems. Predictive alerts based on correlation techniques. Alerts are aggregated to the device, tier and business service level.		Significantly reduced number of more actionable alerts Easy integration of Alive alerts to other problem management systems and consoles

Combo Metrics Metrics can be arithmetically combined in a variety of ways to create combination metrics that are analyzed by the analytics just like individual metrics.		Allows early warning to problems that cannot be identified effectively with single metric analysis (e.g., The Citrix "Black Hole" problem)

Monitoring Integrations and Adapter Framework Out of the box integrations to discover resources and collect metric data from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), HP OpenView Operations (OVO), and Hyperic HQ Enterprise. Sophisticated adapter framework to quickly integrate other third party data sources.		Leverages existing monitoring and systems management investments Speeds time to value Allows holistic cross-silo data analysis

Scalable, Enterprise Ready Architecture Supports real time analysis of millions of metrics from tens of thousands of devices.		Scales to the needs of even the largest IT environments

Role-based, Customizable Dashboards Presents customizable, per-user dashboards based on a Web 2.0-style AJAX portal framework. Alive's interface presents comprehensive, interactive visualization of metric data, dynamic thresholds, correlation analytics and Problem Fingerprints. Interactive widgets include alert control panels, time-series graphs, and more.		Makes each team member more effective by providing the right data and interface for each role Enhances collaboration