New to this release is an Infrastructure Change Dashboard that helps ensure changes are in line with business policies and compliance requirements for security, financial and accounting regulations. This view helps organizations monitor how changes to the application infrastructure affect critical business apps. Using the dashboard, users can expose applications and underlying assets that produce abnormally high change volumes. Integration with service-management systems, such as BMC Remedy and CA Service Desk, is solid. Integrity can automatically connect the workflow for incident reports with the actual change and resolution.
The product doesn't require an agent on each server that runs applications to be managed. Instead, Integrity remotely collects its information. To that end, the product includes Authentication Packs that integrate with Active Directory or LDAP-based directory stores to acquire the credentials needed to access application data.
Don't Go It Alone
To simulate a true customer experience, mValent suggested we use one of its SEs to install and configure the application. We stubbornly decided to tackle it ourselves. Don't do it! Despite repeated attempts, we couldn't stand up the software in our lab--mValent ended up sending a fresh server. We then had several more adventures installing the embedded Oracle database and adjusting memory configuration files before we could use the product.
Once Integrity was up and running, we loaded all the configuration items from our test app--an intranet portal running WebSphere--up to the Integrity server. Integrity collectively labeled these configuration items as an asset. From here we could perform a number of operations on that asset, including controlling the configuration of the entire application or discrete components, and tracking every aspect of the change and release process.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
