op5 Monitor 6.1 released, focused on customization and user experience

STOCKHOLM May 14th. 2013. op5, a market-leading developer of Enterprise Network Monitoring solutions, today announced the official release and general availability of the latest version of the award-winning op5 Monitor. op5 Monitor 6.1 includes a wide range of upgrades and new features, many of which focus on enabling user customization.

“What we have seen is that the data environments within companies accumulate more and more data. Much of which comes from outside the physical company environment, as hybrid IT environments with fast growing usage of SaaS and other Managed Services is becoming more common. So the challenge for companies is to be able to find and interpret the right data at the right time within this massive data stream – and packaged in such a way that the user can understand and act on it without delay. We can also see that more users want to be able to pull and digest data themselves without leaning on an IT administrator. There has been a large customer demand for a monitoring solution to assist in this challenge, and this is what we have accomplished”, said Jan Josephson, CEO of op5.

The new approach is that op5 Monitor 6.1 enables the necessary flexibility in an easy-to-use format. While traditional monitoring solutions have been designed by and for technicians and are often daunting to navigate and adapt, the data and presentation in op5 Monitor 6.1 can be refined down to an individual level, directly in the GUI, through a structure of available filters and list views.
 

“All companies are unique, with their own unique needs, and naturally the needs are different within any company as well. A warehouse manager and a CTO need very different sets of data and may need it presented in different ways. What we do with this release is to enable companies to make those choices as they see fit, stream-lining the operation and saving time and resources in the process.”, said Jan Josephson.

In addition, op5 Monitor 6.1 contains numerous new features and upgrades. A noteworthy addition is Failure Prediction, a feature that can utilize historical performance data to predict when a service will hit warning or critical levels – for instance, that hard disk space may run out in the next few months, allowing these issues to be handled well in advance. Op5 Monitor 6.1 also supports Adaptive Thresholding, allowing for a more flexible way of setting warning levels that takes historical business loads and recurring traffic peaks into account, thereby further reducing the number of alarms caused by sudden but not abnormal peaks or loads in the datacenter.

New features in op5 Monitor 6.1

• API Improvements – new and improved ways to extract data from your op5 Monitor system

• BisCheck – a new module for adaptive thresholding for reducing unnecessary alarms

• Improved Filters and List Views – for a fully customizable and individual user experience, with custom columns based on custom variables

• Trend Analysis – calculating of historical graph data to predict likely future issues early on

• Visualization tool Nagvis updated to version 1.7.3

Availability

op5 Monitor 6.1 is generally available as of Tuesday, May 14th.

For more information and download of free trial version, please visit www.op5.com.

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For additional information:
Klas Bernehjält, Marketing Manager op5
klas.bernehjalt@op5.com
Tel: 46 73 517 70 90

About op5

op5 is a market leading developer of Enterprise Network Management solutions. op5 develops and delivers enterprise-class solution including unique technology transparency with support for virtualized and cloud based services. The solution comes in a fully supported package called op5 Monitor. The architecture supports scalability from the small and business critical IT to the very large IT with tens of thousands of distributed hardware, applications and services.

op5 has customers all over the world such as Volvo, the Linde Group, SAAB Industries, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, RR Bowker, DRS Technologies, Muskegon Area ISD, Yale University, Michigan State University, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center (BCM), Showa Aluminium Corporation, Electrolux, Governments in Scandinavia, Australia and Poland and many other state & local authorities and municipalities. op5 has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in Gothenburg,-Sweden, Munich-Germany and New York-USA and local business partners around the world.

Jan Josephson is one of the founders of op5 and CEO.

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