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AppManager Diagnostic Console

The AppManager Diagnostic Console helps IT managers reduce costs associated with systems outages.

In turn, this helps their staff be more efficient by accelerating the process of troubleshooting, isolating and resolving critical problems with Microsoft Windows, Active Directory and Exchange. The console provides a central, easy-to-use view of critical server and application diagnostics across the enterprise. From AppManager Diagnostic Console, system administrators can manage computer and application resources, check for potential problems and gather performance data for real-time analysis.

Key Features and Benefits:

Improves efficiency by reducing time administrators spend performing mundane and repetitive–but nonetheless important–tasks.
Reduces downtime by complementing AppManager's ability to speed the problem-detection process. Combined, this powerful solution significantly speeds problem detection, diagnosis and resolution.
Consolidates troubleshooting by enabling you to troubleshoot Windows, Active Directory and Exchange problems from a single console.
Integrates with AppManager for automated data collection, providing immediate collection of relevant diagnostic information when AppManager detects a threshold crossing and generates an event.
Improves administrator productivity by allowing entry-level operators to perform some high-permission activities without being granted full Windows administration rights, extending their abilities with minimal risk.

AppManager for VoIP

NetIQ's AppManager for VoIP management solution enables administrators to effectively monitor, secure and manage service levels for VoIP applications.

The Business Problem

Next-generation communication technologies, such as VoIP, can give your business a competitive advantage. But maintaining the performance and availability of VoIP applications can be daunting because of their complexity and the critical role they play.

IP telephony servers must be available and voice mail responding
Data networks must continue to operate at maximum performance
Call quality must meet end-users' expectations
VoIP security must be monitored to ensure availability and integrity

The NetIQ Solution

Continuous management is necessary to deliver the reliability and quality that customers demand and to ensure the success and availability of enterprise communication services. NetIQ's AppManager Suite (AppManager) provides a comprehensive solution for managing, securing, diagnosing and analyzing the performance and availability of VoIP, as well as distributed Windows-, UNIX- and Linux-based systems, applications and server infrastructures.

Key Features and Benefits:

Simplifies VoIP management. With AppManager you can manage VoIP solutions, including IP phones, call servers, voice mail and IP contact center applications, as well as the underlying IT infrastructure—all from a single integrated console.
Maximizes performance and availability. Proactive 24x7 monitoring of the health and performance of the network, servers and VoIP applications ensures that you are immediately alerted to problems or potential problems in your VoIP environment.
Extends VoIP expertise. Knowledge built into AppManager designed specifically for VoIP applications provides immediate insight into VoIP application health and availability, dramatically decreasing the time needed to manage converged VoIP technologies and applications.
Provides powerful reporting capabilities. AppManager delivers a powerful and flexible reporting infrastructure. Extensive reports allow for monitoring service levels, call quality, overall performance, usage trends and capacity planning.
Monitors security events. With AppManager you can monitor the Cisco IP Telephony environment to detect security events and configuration changes. Real-time monitoring reduces exposure and increases response time to maintain high availability.

AppManager Performace Profiler

NetIQ's AppManager Performance Profiler helps IT organizations address the challenge of improving service levels, while also maximizing staff efficiency and reducing operational costs.

As a result, you can manage your systems in a dynamic environment, rapidly adjusting and managing monitoring policies and system availability, while proactively anticipating future resource issues. AppManager Performance Profiler learns and continuously profiles your environment's changing characteristics. When it detects abnormal system behavior, it sends trusted alarms that help your staff quickly correct problems. AppManager Performance Profiler also provides workload modeling, adding value by enabling maximum utilization of system resources, as well as effective capacity and virtualization planning.

Key Features and Benefits:

Improves IT service levels through proactive problem identification and resolution. AppManager Performance Profiler understands how a system's performance changes dynamically over time or as usage patterns change, so it can generate alerts for abnormal conditions before they become critical.
Enhances IT operational efficiency by reducing time spent managing thresholds. With AppManager Performance Profiler, you can investigate only alerts for abnormal conditions.
Reduces IT operational costs by maximizing server utilization, deferring the need for future server hardware purchases. Workload reports also help you identify servers that may be candidates for consolidation or virtualization.

AppManager Suite

Enabling IT Organizations to Maximize Efficiency

The NetIQ AppManager Suite product (AppManager Suite) enables IT organizations to meet their service level commitments while maximizing staff efficiency, with deep real-time diagnostics, advanced analysis and reporting and automated workload capacity management across Windows, Unix and Linux systems. The AppManager Suite offers one of the broadest systems and application management portfolios on the market.

To help you meet the constantly changing and demanding service requirements from your line of business customers, the AppManager Suite assures the performance and availability of key infrastructure, applications and business services. The product enables you to manage service levels and ensure compliance with SLAs, while providing in-depth knowledge and systems insight to gain perspective into the operation and utilization of IT assets. Finally, it streamlines operations and makes them more efficient. What AppManager Suite Can Do For You

Monitor the IT environment from a service perspective
Maximize availability of your applications and services
Determine compliance to your existing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Monitor and manage a broad range of platforms—Windows, Unix, Linux, J2EE application servers, VoIP applications, web servers, databases and applications
Provide higher level of service to your internal and external customers

Key Features and Benefits:

Enables your IT organization to meet service level commitments and ensure IT is an integral part of the business planning process.
Assures service levels by decreasing recovery time and more effectively resolving root causes of system and application problems.
Increases the efficiency of your IT organization via a single, centralized and flexible solution that is easy to deploy and use.

Directory and Resource Administrator

Directory and Resource Administrator provides advanced delegation and robust, policy-based administration capabilities that improve the security and efficiency of your Microsoft Windows environment and can assist you in meeting regulatory requirements.

The Business Problem

Migrating to Active Directory is a challenge in itself. But once you've migrated, you're faced with the challenge of securing your Windows infrastructure while at the same time maintaining administrative efficiency and preparing to meet new regulatory requirements. To achieve those goals you must overcome such challenges as:

An excessive number of privileged accounts
Poor control of granular access control
Inadequate data consistency protection for essential Active Directory information

The NetIQ Solution

NetIQ's Directory and Resource Administrator provides powerful, policy-based privilege and content management, as well as extensive auditing and reporting capabilities. These capabilities increase the security and efficiency of your Windows environment and assist you in meeting compliance requirements by enabling granular delegation of administrative privileges, process driven task automation and centralized logging.

Key Features and Benefits:

Secures Active Directory and protects the Windows environment from the risk of power escalation and inadvertent security threats by reducing the number of privileged accounts and providing granular access control. Centralized logging of all administrative actions combines with comprehensive reporting to provide clear accountability.
Ensures data integrity by reliably enforcing business policies and controlling the data that can be stored in Active Directory. If unchecked, data clutter can compromise the value of Active Directory, introduce dangerous errors and interfere with operational efficiency.
Increases administration efficiency by providing the ability to implement a management model that reflects how you think and work. Help desk users can work more efficiently with the product's easy-to-use interface, which automates manual tasks and allows for management beyond the underlying Active Directory topology.
Assists in regulatory compliance by providing granular access control and change management for Windows permissions, allowing organizations to control who has access to what. Centralized logging and detailed audit reports allow organizations to document compliance with regulatory requirements.
Reduces administration costs by automating repetitive and complex processes and using controlled delegation to distribute common account administration duties.

Directory Security Administrator

NetIQ's Directory Security Administrator provides innovative Active Directory permissions management capabilities, which include powerful role-based security, auditing and advanced analysis.

The Business Problem

Active Directory permission management is one of the foundations to effectively securing your network. But as you may have already discovered, developing and maintaining an effective Active Directory Access Control List (ACL) for your ever-changing network is nearly impossible without the right tools. Some issues you may be facing include:

Security gaps in the network as a result of ineffective management of ACLs
A dynamic environment with roles and permissions constantly changing
Poor control over integrity of the information stored on your network

The NetIQ Solution

NetIQ's Directory Security Administrator enables you to simply and effectively manage permissions and ACLs using role-based security functionality. Using its straightforward, graphic interface, you can search, audit, analyze and modify permissions, thereby reducing the security exposure that configuration errors can cause.

Key Features and Benefits:

Improves security by simplifying the setup and configuration of your Active Directory security model and gives you the power to assess and analyze security vulnerabilities.
Enables security audits and allows you to assess security vulnerabilities within Active Directory permissions.
Simplifies control over permissions by providing the ability to quickly and easily manage permissions, reducing the security exposure that permission configuration errors can introduce.
Enables task-appropriate directory access to reduce operational costs and enhance an organization's security posture by leveraging NetIQ's unique Layered Security Architecture.

Exchange Administrator

Exchange Administrator is a powerful add-on to NetIQ's Directory and Resource Administrator. It provides single-point, policy-based administration for Exchange mailbox management across your enterprise.

Managing Exchange mailboxes, directories and distribution lists can be a time-consuming, resource-straining process. Working in the Exchange environment presents several other challenges, including reducing the number of manual Exchange administration tasks, uniformly enforcing mailbox usage policies and managing mailboxes without changing the underlying OU structure.

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Reduce Exchange administrator workload
Ensure corporate policies are uniformly followed
Easily move mailboxes across Organizational Unit

Key Features and Benefits:

Cuts software, support and training costs by providing a unified tool for seamless administration of Exchange 2000/2003.
Streamlines IT tasks and reduces errors by automating complex and lengthy administrative processes, such as Exchange mailbox creation.
Maintains data integrity by automating policy enforcement across Exchange 2000/2003.
Provides comprehensive auditing with detailed logs and extensive reporting of all actions.

File Security Administrator

NetIQ's File Security Administrator delivers a complete file security management and reporting solution for your Windows 2000/Active Directory environments.

Managing Access Control Lists (ACLs) is a crucial challenge for Windows NT and Windows 2000 administrators. However, the number ACLs in an enterprise make it difficult for administrators to maintain control.

File Security Administrator helps you manage the ACL settings for files, folders and shares across your enterprise and this enhanced control improves security and reduces the risk of costly downtime.

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Determine where a particular user has access and then limit, remove or translate that access to another user
Generate reports on a regular basis to easily verify your current security settings
Create security backups at will–if a security problem arises after the backup, simply restore the saved

Key Features and Benefits:

Enables accurate and precise assessment of enterprise file security by providing comprehensive reporting to help you identify high-level file security problems.
Reduces security risks automatically and enabling you to modify permissions and reduce possible security issues.
Provides extensive, rich reporting functionality that enables you to track and audit the state of your file system permissions.
Permits enterprise-wide actions and allows you to group files, directories and shares across machines and domains, so you can modify permissions, backup permissions and take immediate corrective action on the collection.

IQ Extend for Account Provisioning

IQ Extend for Account Provisioning delivers a quick time to value and a secure user account creation solution for Active Directory-focused organizations that utilizes existing HR data and the power of Directory and Resource Administrator to automate and standardize the Active Directory user account creation process.

The Business Problem

Setting up new user accounts in Active Directory is both time-consuming and repetitive. It involves manually entering information from the HR system into Active Directory, then assigning memberships and permissions. This task typically falls to the Help Desk, or other less experienced Active Directory administrators, which increases the possibility of errors and data inconsistencies. This process presents several challenges, including:

Minimizing user downtime caused by an inefficient account creation process
Eliminating the costs and security risks created by manual account creation errors
Preventing the data inconsistencies that can interfere with the operational efficiency of Active Directory

The NetIQ Solution

NetIQ's IQ Extend for Account Provisioning pulls data directly from your HR system and utilizes Directory and Resource Administrator to automatically create and setup Active Directory user accounts that comply with the security policies you set in Directory and Resource Administrator. This solution leverages the advanced user provisioning features in Directory and Resource Administrator and is delivered by professional services consultants with extensive knowledge and implementation experience. Compatible with most HR applications, IQ Extend for Account Provisioning delivers a quick time to value and a secure user account creation solution for Active Directory-focused organizations.

Key Features and Benefits:

Accelerates new account creation and reduces downtime by automating the account creation process, which enables you to reliably and securely create accounts in a fraction of the time of a manual account creation process.
Eliminates expensive errors by standardizing the user account creation process and ensuring all user account creation activities are performed in the correct order and with the correct information.
Delivers a quick time to value by identifying and addressing point-of-pain issues with immediate solutions that can be quickly implemented. Unlike comprehensive end-to-end provisioning solutions, IQ Extend allows organizations to deploy solutions in phases, as they have budget, providing an immediate return on investment and reducing the risks associated with large projects.

Analysis Center

NetIQ Analysis Center* provides organizations with extensive levels of visibility into service and security management activities.

With its common reporting infrastructure, NetIQ Analysis Center offers a comprehensive view of an organization’s IT operational health, service level metrics and security activities. IT organizations can improve service levels and operational efficiency while cost-effectively meeting compliance and operational integrity needs.

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Analyze and report on system availability, service level metrics, root-cause analysis and security activities through a single, unified console
Securely publish reports to Microsoft SharePoint so service owners and consumers can get customized, real-time information on how IT services are meeting their needs
Gain deeper understanding of your entire IT infrastructure’s health and be better prepared to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Perform complex, time-based comparisons of performance across different servers and applications

Key Features and Benefits:

Delivers unified systems and security reporting, providing increased service management functionalities, as well as common reporting and analysis in a single console. You are better positioned to guarantee SLAs, by demonstrating your key IT services are both secure and performing.
Improves IT-business communication with SharePoint integration enabling IT to demonstrate compliance and management of service levels with real-time customized activities reports to management and other teams. NetIQ Analysis Center also improves productivity by providing customizable classification of data so administrators know where to focus attention.
Enables effective capacity management by providing the views necessary to accurately load balance, secure and provision servers, as well as focus on capacity planning and virtualization.
Provides deeper knowledge of IT infrastructure health by continuously monitoring critical changes to the production environment and providing trending and predictive analysis. With this information, you gain deep insight into your overall IT health and performance so you can more accurately anticipate service level needs and requirements.

Change Administrator

NetIQ Change Administrator assures regulatory compliance and ensures operational integrity with unique server change control features and functionality that enable IT operations to better control and manage changes to their IT operational environment.

IT managers are often forced to grant employees broad, powerful and permanent privileges to production servers in order to accomplish narrow tasks that need to be done only infrequently. This situation exists because native permissions fail to offer the kind of granularity that today’s regulatory environment requires. To meet auditors’ demands for greater change control, IT organizations have been forced to create homegrown systems or to manage permissions manually.

NetIQ Change Administrator delivers authorized, delegated, change control and highly configurable, time-based, task-specific permissions for servers.

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Get highly-configurable server change control features that provide delegated, task-specific permissions
Comply with multiple policies and regulations and strengthen your system’s operational integrity
Control which systems are accessed and reinforce change management processes

Key Features and Benefits:

Assures compliance with policies and procedures by enabling effective assessment, operation and control of systems and resources in accordance with security standards, best practices and regulatory requirements.
Ensures operational integrity by confining administrative changes to specific tasks or times and leverages a rich delegation model to define access parameters for servers, applications and timeframes.
Increases control over the implementation of changes by making certain the right personnel have the correct permissions to make required changes to the IT infrastructure.
Enforces key change management processes by allowing you to input and search for operational data from ticketing and change management systems.
Provides auditing awareness on server and operator entitlements and activity. NetIQ Change Administrator clearly defines entitlements, enabling you to satisfy compliance requirements for separation of duties and enhance audit capabilities.

Change Guardian for Active Directory

With NetIQ’s Change Guardian for Active Directory, you know which changes are executed based on corporate policy, validate the success or failure of planned changes and capture the difference between authorized and unauthorized change activity. The Change Guardian product minimizes the risks associated with changes to Active Directory by assuring that changes to the production Active Directory environment are authorized, monitored, verified and audited through implementation.

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Enable first response teams to take appropriate action and assure security by initiating alerts for high-profile Active Directory changes
Protect your environment from dangerous security exposures and costly service disruptions
Identify potential policy compliance issues in implementing your Active Directory change management process
Maximize the technology you already use by functioning on common infrastructures of NetIQ Security Manager™ and Microsoft Operations Manager

Key Features and Benefits:

Identifies managed and unmanaged changes by alerting in real time on unmanaged Active Directory changes, enhancing control over policy compliance.
Detects high-profile changes across well-known privileged group and produces detailed reports and alerts on changes across your environment.
Centrally records and audits Active Directory changes and helps you monitor your environment with out-of-the-box reporting templates.
Easily integrates into your existing Active Directory change process and identifies where modifications occur outside of the process.

Group Policy Administrator

As a key part of the Operational Change Control offering, NetIQ Group Policy Administrator is the industry's leading solution for planning, controlling, troubleshooting and reporting on Group Policy changes. It enables administrators to meet the challenges associated with Group Policy's powerful capabilities, ensuring that Group Policy Object (GPO) changes go through an approved change and release management process. No other solution provides for the total offline management of Group Policy, allowing organizations to minimize risk and prevent service interruptions.

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Reduce the risk and cost associated with making operational changes
Manage GPO changes in a safe, offline environment without impacting the performance and availability of your live Active Directory environment
Use flexible and knowledge-rich reporting capabilities to increase management visibility into Group Policy actions, helping you comply with auditors and regulations

Key Features and Benefits

Offers secure offline repository by reducing the number of privileged accounts, offering secure offline Group Policy management without having to provide permissions within Active Directory.
Provides robust workflow and delegation model by allowing you to push the administration of Active Directory lower in the organization to safely involve all Group Policy stakeholders.
Reduces error risk when configuring GPOs by enabling you to configure settings once, and then replicate and apply those settings to GPOs in other domains and even other forests. This feature guarantees that your settings are configured correctly and reduces the risk of accidentally misconfiguring or losing a setting.
Provides advanced analysis and simulates the effect of modifying the Group Policy environment using online Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) without having to first deploy the modified GPO.

Group Policy Guardian

NetIQ Group Policy Guardian minimizes the risks associated with Group Policy Object (GPO) change management and helps determine and document all authorized and unauthorized Group Policy changes to the live environment.

Group Policy is an extremely powerful Active Directory (AD) management feature that can deliver a secure and reliable Windows environment. However, failure to properly monitor and control Group Policies can result in service disruptions, replication challenges, over-privileged administrators and malicious GPO modifications.

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Stop inappropriate GPO modifications before they impact the security or availability of your Windows AD environment
Capture change activity in an auditing database where detailed reports identify GPO changes, when they were made and by whom
Manage and audit all changes made within NetIQ Group Policy Administrator and native tools

Key Features and Benefits

Provides improved IT service levels and responsiveness by decreasing user and system downtime caused by errant GPO changes.
Notifies when specified Group Policy change events occur and whether changes were authorized and delivers instant change notifications through email or pager.
Provides detailed Group Policy change history and delivers precise and complete documentation of GPO changes with convenient, in-depth tracking features.
Integrates with existing monitoring infrastructure to simplify configuration and deployment for fast and cost-effective implementation.

IntelliPolicy for Clients

NetIQ IntelliPolicy for Clients provides administrators new and extended security and configuration policy settings, as well as the ability to selectively apply policies across desktop and server assets, for a simplified and cost-effective alternative to desktop lockdown and configuration management.

Managing desktops is complicated by the fact that users are often granted “administrator rights” as a result of applications that require elevated privileges and users' demands for greater control over their desktops. While this provides greater flexibility, it also introduces increased security risks. These risks include users installing unapproved applications and making untested configuration changes, in addition to escalating costs to support multiple desktop images.

NetIQ IntelliPolicy for Clients helps organization manage these risks with a comprehensive, policy-based approach to managing client-side security, access control and configuration management.

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Ensure that desktops, servers and their users conform to the organization’s security and configuration policies
Leverage a wider scope of available controls than are natively available in existing management infrastructures
Assure compliance with regulations using comprehensive configuration and security settings and controls that go beyond native capabilities

Key Features and Benefits

Centralized desktop lockdown and configuration management that simplifies the management of desktops and servers and leverages existing Windows desktop management standards. This feature provides IT administrators with the confidence that assets are more secure, their configurations are known, and policy is defined and operating across the organization.
Provides extended security and configuration policy settings that help fill the controls gap between what security best practice and regulatory requirements demand and what native technology can deliver. Organizations can create policies that accurately map to requirements without having to rely on additional technologies, such as scripting.
Offers selective application of policy settings, dramatically simplifying how policies are deployed with powerful filters to determine where and when they are applied, to ensure the policies that best fit an asset’s risk, capacity and availability profile are applied to that asset, and to avoid inefficient “all or nothing” approaches.

Risk and Compliance Center

The NetIQ Risk and Compliance Center solution aligns security metrics gathered from your IT systems to demonstrate compliance with IT-related policies and regulations and displays them in a customizable dashboard. This automated solution analyzes security assessment data and maps the results with government and industry regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and FISMA. As a result, it provides the knowledge you need to understand and manage ongoing security risks and build a defensible position to prove regulatory compliance to auditors.

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Quickly and easily assess IT security risks and regulatory non-compliance so you can take proactive measures before breaches or penalties impact your organization
Analyze IT risk factors such as compliance exceptions and vulnerabilities and break them down across key areas of your business
Drill-down to problem areas for further analysis and render management reports based on regulation source or security standard
Make ongoing security management a sustainable and repeatable discipline within your organization

Key Features and Benefits

Demonstrates regulatory compliance by mapping technical assessment results to specific regulations and standards to present compliance metrics for different control areas.
Delivers on-going risk analysis, measuring IT security risk in your environment using innovative metric models based on compliance exceptions, vulnerabilities and the business value of IT assets.
Centralizes security information for easier access and decision making by mining security assessment results reflecting system configurations, vulnerabilities, patch levels, user accounts and permissions, auditing and more.
Turns complex data into easy-to-understand, actionable information via a customizable interface. Views can be tailored to your regulatory, organizational and technical needs.

Security Compliance Suite

As a key component of NetIQ's Knowledge-Based Service Assurance strategy, NetIQ Security Compliance Suite leverages NetIQ Vulnerability Manager and NetIQ Security Manager to provide a comprehensive information security solution that provides coverage for your enterprise thorough regulatory and compliance controls.

NetIQ's Security Compliance Suite addresses many vital control areas, such as segregation of duties, entitlement reporting, log management, security incident management and others, in a single package.

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Meet ongoing compliance and risk management requirements by obtaining a complete picture of those systems at highest risk for non-compliance
Consolidate and audit log information to understand who did what, where and when - across multiple platforms and devices
Automate the process of regularly assessing and reporting on user, group and services permissions, making spotting potential privilege problems quicker and easier
Identify and respond to exploits and malicious activity to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of critical data

Key Features and Benefits

Demonstrates regulatory compliance by providing built-in knowledge that enables scored reporting against multiple regulations and standards (SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, CIS, ISO 17799).
Enables you to collect and consolidate logs from platform sources for easy viewing, searching and trending.
Monitors and alerts on security incidents to protect against threats to critical infrastructure components.
Reports on system entitlements and enables you to regularly review users with advanced privileges and quickly identify who has access to files, shares and directories.
Enforces segregation of duty policies by providing a specific list of users and their access rights, such as developers' access to production systems.

Security Management Pack for MOM

With NetIQ you can extend MOM to enhance your security and monitor your IT infrastructure. NetIQ, a Microsoft Management Alliance member, extends systems and security management of the Windows platform. Our Extended Management Pack (XMP) for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) modules are based on native MOM technologies and provide tight integration with MOM.

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Ensure security management with built-in rules for Windows-based systems
Monitor non-Microsoft applications and hardware
Support Microsoft Windows NT and key Microsoft applications running on NT
Utilize advanced analysis and reporting

Key Features and Benefits

Supports non-Microsoft applications to provide MOM-based monitoring of Lotus, Oracle, Dell and IBM.
Improves security on Windows systems to extend MOM to ensure that security systems and applications are active and performing as expected. You can also identify and respond to security incidents.
Delivers comprehensive reporting templates and analysis capabilities so you can gain insight into a specific application and identify your capacity for change—for improved performance.

XMP Solutions for MOM

NetIQ offers two XMP packs that address the needs of customers using MOM. These XMP packs are:

XMP Base Pack for MOM is for companies implementing MOM that require on-going monitoring of Windows events and system performance with automated response actions for proactive management. NetIQ provides an integrated Base Pack for MOM that delivers extended management solutions for servers, security and anti-virus protection. NetIQ's XMP Base Pack extends the MOM architecture and functionality by allowing you to monitor HP, Dell and IBM servers, along with integrated virus and security protection, as well as advanced reporting capabilities.
XMP Application Pack for MOM monitors Windows events and system performance and automating response actions with an integrated management solution for applications and databases. NetIQ's Application Pack extends the MOM architecture and functionality, allowing you to monitor Lotus Domino and Oracle, while also providing advanced reporting capabilities. The XMP Application Pack incorporates a set of rules and associated knowledge to identify and respond to critical Oracle and Lotus Domino events. By extending MOM, NetIQ's XMP proactively monitors your critical databases and applications.

Security Manager

NetIQ Security Manager delivers comprehensive security information and event management for your organization's heterogeneous, cross-platform environment. With real-time intrusion detection and protection capabilities, NetIQ Security Manager is the only product that encapsulates security information management and correlation, incident analysis and response, log management and archival, advanced trending and forensics tools, and comprehensive security reporting within a single solution.

The value of your existing security infrastructure is enhanced through NetIQ Security Manager's ability to correlate events to identify true security incidents and blended threats in real time, while facilitating a prioritized, tracked and informed response to those incidents.

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Quickly identify hidden threats while meeting audit, regulatory and legal requirements with scalable and centralized log and event consolidation
Improve system availability, service assurance and protect intellectual property with real-time intrusion detection and protection
Identify real incidents from amongst event noise and false positive alerts to gain meaningful and real-time security information

Key Features and Benefits

Reduces exposure time with real-time monitoring for security incidents, extensive information on alerts, advanced notification capabilities, and automated responses.
Improves security knowledge through a comprehensive knowledge base that automatically builds, internalizing new and updated information into the product, and assuring its availability.
Increases protection levels by correlating events from your heterogeneous and best-of-breed security point solutions, systems and processes to identify true incidents.
Assures compliance by facilitating regular review and reporting on enterprise security information, monitoring security controls to validate their effectiveness, and providing real-time enforcement of policies and best practices.

Security Solutions for iSeries

NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries offer proven protection to hundreds of customers on thousands of servers, providing simplified auditing, intrusion protection, vulnerability management and security administration for your iSeries and AS/400 systems. Certified as ServerProven® for IBM eServer®-iSeries, NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries consist of individual components that you can deploy separately or together to achieve the most comprehensive iSeries security solution available today.

NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries also integrate tightly with NetIQ Security Manager™ and NetIQ Vulnerability Manager™ to provide comprehensive, enterprise-wide cross-platform security management and configuration and vulnerability management capabilities.

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Deliver powerful vulnerability assessment and policy compliance reporting
Provide comprehensive exit-point control at the network and object-security levels
Enable real-time monitoring of security, performance and availability
Secure the administration of iSeries identities and credentials

Key Features and Benefits

Provides proactive protection for iSeries platforms that allows you to quickly lock down your OS/400 and i5/OS with strong access controls at both the network and object security levels. Also delivers secure user administration that simplifies the process of - and reduces the time and effort associated with - user profile and password synchronization across multiple iSeries servers.
Allows you to assess compliance with policies, standards and other security drivers. Through close integration with NetIQ Vulnerability Manager, security analysts and auditors can use comprehensive configuration policy templates to automatically evaluate your iSeries servers against those policies.
Delivers real-time intrusion protection from attacks against your iSeries servers. You can configure responses to both malicious attacks and security policy violations. Responses to the identified anomalies can range from the execution of a script, to notification of your security incident response team.
Helps meet regulatory log management requirements by collecting and consolidating security journals from across all your iSeries servers. Integration with NetIQ Security Manager provides access to powerful analysis and reporting capabilities, empowering audit satisfaction through regular review of and reporting on enterprise-wide security log and event information.

Vivinet Diagnostics

The NetIQ Vivinet Diagnostics product (Vivinet Diagnostics) quickly pinpoints call quality problems in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks and explains why you are experiencing reduced call quality. Vivinet Diagnostics reduces the time needed to resolve voice quality issues and lessens the skills required for VoIP troubleshooting, in both pre- and post-deployment environments. Though simple to use, the product provides the data needed to troubleshoot complex VoIP problems in Cisco and Nortel environments.

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Reduce the time spent resolving voice quality issues because you rapidly determine the cause of the problem and verify your fixes work
Automatically collect data needed to understand the problem and perform analysis to prioritize problems according to severity
Identify root cause analysis of VoIP problems to tell you why diagnostics occurred and where to look to fix the problem
Maximize your current technology by setting AppManager to automatically start diagnostics when needed

Key Features and Benefits

Reduces the skills required for VoIP troubleshooting by automating each step during troubleshooting—finding problems, identifying the cause and prioritizing them for you.
Minimizes the tools required and provides deeper analysis by combining network discovery, synthetic transactions and monitoring of WANs, LANs and network devices.
Generates informative reports that include comprehensive call quality information in the diagnosis phase. You can also sort by event severity.
Enables troubleshooting in both pre- and post-deployment with NetIQ Performance Endpoints, lightweight software agents that collect information about network transactions for analysis and reporting.
Requires minimal configuration by automatically discovering the information necessary to troubleshoot problems.

Vulnerability Manager

NetIQ Vulnerability Manager proactively ensures that you are identifying the latest system vulnerabilities and complying with corporate and regulatory policies to manage information security risk.

As tight budgets and limited staffs make it increasingly difficult for many organizations to address critical security issues, organizations must protect or combat against threats before they are introduced. They must incorporate solutions that enable them to identify vulnerabilities, policy non-compliance and potential exploitations, reduce the time and effort required to understand and mitigate risk and respond faster and more confidently to vulnerabilities.

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Correct exposures before they result in security breaches, failed audits or costly downtime
Proactively harden your systems by quickly identifying vulnerabilities of all sources, including configuration flaws, missing patches, unprotected user accounts and dangerous services
Quickly identify changes in a system since the last audit

Key Features and Benefits

Assesses compliance with policies, standards and other security drivers. NetIQ Vulnerability Manager allows security analysts and auditors to define comprehensive configuration policy templates and automatically evaluate systems against those policies.
Improves security knowledge by delivering robust policy templates, vulnerability bulletins and automated checks over the Internet. NetIQ's AutoSync technology automatically delivers leading practice policy templates-vulnerability bulletins powered by TruSecure and automated checks. Users can instantly use the latest knowledge to protect their environment.
Manages and measures risk and all level of threats posed by vulnerabilities and compliance exceptions against the importance of managed assets. It produces powerful metrics to illustrate risk on a system-by-system as well as a group-by-group basis.
Protects the enterprise by covering a broad variety of critical computing technologies. NetIQ Vulnerability Manager supports numerous operating systems and databases, as well as Microsoft all IIS Web Servers.
Reduces vulnerabilities and protects against worms, attacks and other threats.
Enables fast remediation by identifying systems compromised by the latest threats. Unlike vulnerability scanners, NetIQ Vulnerability Manager quickly identifies exploited systems by searching for the signs of compromise, such as altered registry keys or dangerous files. It optimizes remediation through configuration management and detailed knowledge.

XMP Modules for MOM

Ensure security management with built-in rules for Windows-based systems
Monitor non-Microsoft applications and hardware
Support Microsoft Windows NT and key Microsoft applications running on NT
Utilize advanced analysis and reporting

Key Features and Benefits

Supports non-Microsoft applications to provide MOM-based monitoring of Lotus, Oracle, Dell and IBM.
Improves security on Windows systems to extend MOM to ensure that security systems and applications are active and performing as expected. You can also identify and respond to security incidents.
Delivers comprehensive reporting templates and analysis capabilities so you can gain insight into a specific application and identify your capacity for change—for improved performance.

XMP Solutions for MOM

NetIQ offers two XMP packs that address the needs of customers using MOM. These XMP packs are:

XMP Base Pack for MOM is for companies implementing MOM that require on-going monitoring of Windows events and system performance with automated response actions for proactive management. NetIQ provides an integrated Base Pack for MOM that delivers extended management solutions for servers, security and anti-virus protection. NetIQ's XMP Base Pack extends the MOM architecture and functionality by allowing you to monitor HP, Dell and IBM servers, along with integrated virus and security protection, as well as advanced reporting capabilities.
XMP Application Pack for MOM monitors Windows events and system performance and automating response actions with an integrated management solution for applications and databases. NetIQ's Application Pack extends the MOM architecture and functionality, allowing you to monitor Lotus Domino and Oracle, while also providing advanced reporting capabilities. The XMP Application Pack incorporates a set of rules and associated knowledge to identify and respond to critical Oracle and Lotus Domino events. By extending MOM, NetIQ's XMP proactively monitors your critical databases and applications.

Secure Password Administrator

NetIQ's Secure Password Administrator extends NetIQ's Directory and Resource Administrator to provide an agentless, web-based interface to allow end users to manage their own Windows passwords.

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Lower administrative costs by offering self-service solutions and better help desk response time on other critical IT issues
Secure your network from within your organization by ensuring a stronger password policy
Make passwords easier to assign and remember

Key Features and Benefits

Allows for the effective implementation of strong Windows password policies since end users who can reset their own passwords are less likely to write them down.
Increases security and accountability with audit logging of every operation performed through Secure Password Administrator interfaces.
Ensures the privacy of employees so personal employee data remains secure, safe and private while identity verification methodology is universally applied through self-service interfaces.

Security Administration Suite

Comprised of Directory and Resource Administrator, Directory Security Administrator and NetIQ Group Policy Administrator, NetIQ's Security Administration Suite delivers secure and efficient administration of your Windows infrastructure to maximize your return on Active Directory. With NetIQ's Security Administration Suite, your organization gains powerful enterprise-level privilege management for your Windows environments.

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Dramatically decrease your workload by enabling help desk users to work more efficiently with the product's easy-to-use interface
Reduce error-related costs by providing an offline environment for Group Policy management
Enhance internal security by reducing the number of privileged accounts and the risk of power escalation and identity theft.

Key Features and Benefits

Reduces administration costs by providing automation and allowing delegation of user and Group Policy management tasks.
Maintains data integrity by reducing data clutter, which reliably enforces business policies and controls the data that can be put into your directories.
Enables task-appropriate directory access by using Layered Security Architecture to assign directory access options, based on needs and privilege level.

VigilEnt Policy Center

VigilEnt™ Policy Center is the most comprehensive solution for developing, implementing and managing policies, standards and procedures from any department within your organization. A successful VigilEnt Policy Center implementation provides increased levels of employee awareness and results in raising corporate compliance to applicable laws, regulations and guidance that affect organizations in any industry.

As organizations are bombarded with a myriad of external pressures, principally in the form of vague regulations, to reduce risk and comply with requirements they need solutions that ensure employees receive and understand guidance on their roles and responsibilities.

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Reduce risk and comply with regulations and requirements
Easily develop and distribute policies to your targeted audience
Ensure that employees in your organization receive and understand policies

Key Features and Benefits

Delivers policy and standards content out-of-the-box with hundreds of sample policies and quizzes and thousands of sample policy statements from security experts.
Automates manual processes and demonstrates compliance to regulations cost effectively by automating processes such as the annual distribution and signing of the corporate code of conduct.
Ensures employee awareness of vital organization policies by distributing approved policies to employees and others via a customizable user web site based on each user's role in the organization.
Tests, evaluates and reports on employee understanding of policies by verifying who has read and understood your policies and standards using Compliance Reporting in VigilEnt Policy Center.
Leverages existing user account repositories and seamlessly integrates with any Windows domain, Active Directory or LDAP directory service.
Reports and tracks security incidents or violations online and enables you to provide an easy way for employees to anonymously report any incidents or violations.

Vivinet Assessor

The NetIQ Vivinet Assessor product (Vivinet Assessor) helps you determine quickly and easily how well Voice over IP (VoIP) will work on a network prior to deployment. Before you invest in costly training and pilot deployments, Vivinet Assessor predicts the overall call quality you can expect from the network.

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Improve planning with predictive modeling, which narrows the scenarios that you will want to emulate on a live network
Determine if your network can handle VoIP by evaluating and reporting on the network's ability to support VoIP's unique network requirements
Predict call quality by collecting network metrics over time, which provides an accurate depiction of overall call quality once VoIP is deployed
Create background traffic to simulate the impact of other application traffic on VoIP call quality

Key Features and Benefits

Builds a network inventory, saving time by automatically surveying routers, switches and WAN links to be evaluated by Vivinet Assessor.
Highlights limitations of current network devices, providing insight into potential needs for additional or upgraded devices before VoIP deployment by monitoring utilization statistics of current network devices and links.
Performs configuration assessment, comparing information about device configuration gathered during a network inventory to a set of rules you supply—based on vendor recommendations—and reports any disparities.
Provides polished, and customizable, assessment reports analyzing results at the end of the assessment. The report is easily customized and provides a straightforward executive summary that assesses the network's readiness for VoIP, along with detailed results by location for further analysis. Vivinet Assessor reports include information needed to identify potential problem areas.