Tuesday, March 6, 2012

NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager - IDM's Greatest Assistant

With Identity Management becoming a more prevalent and a bigger part of your business, you’re going to want an application that can keep an eye on anything that might go wrong in your system. For that purpose, NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager is the perfect tool. With its near plug-and-play installation, and one-click reporting, Sentinel 7 Log Manager can make the lives of your IT personnel easier, and make the cost of deployment, management, and storage shrink.

The first thing that caught my eye about NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager was how simple it was to install. It comes built with SUSE Studio, and has so much functionality out-of-the-box, that you feel like you just plugged in another piece of hardware and kept going. Right off the line, you get event collection, autonomous updating, and work with the drivers you already have to send messages to Sentinel while watching the action on each driver. Talk about security and performance!

Secondly, Sentinel Log Manager is extremely easy, yet vastly detailed with a one-click reporting module. Instead of defining each piece of data that you need in a report, you can go ahead and use text based queries, which are clickable fields in the trace data, or you have the option of using a GUI filter. When you query your log data using Sentinel Log Manager, you have the ability to turn that search into a repeatable report. Once you’re done finding what you need, Sentinel allows you to create your own template for the data, and you define what fields are required by each report.

With all this functionality in such an easy package, Sentinel is sure to increase the productivity of your connector management personnel drastically. Whether it’s bug finding, report generations, or just simply deploying and managing connectors, Sentinel is a friend to all. Sentinel also comes with a scalable appliance on SUSE Studio in order to take advantage of non-proprietary storage systems, so you can leverage existing ordinary or cloud infrastructure.

So, there you have it. With so many reasons and uses Sentinel Log Manager has, there’s no question any IDM environment can benefit from having this amazing product by its side.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog. If you have any questions on this topic, leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you shortly. To learn more about Action Identity and NetIQ Sentinel, visit our website. To contact us directly, please click here. We look forward to hearing from you.

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