“Rove Mobile Admin on my iPad lets me check into things extremely quickly and diagnose problems right on the spot [...] We can respond faster and be more productive with Rove – we have it loaded up on our entire IT staff's iPads!”
- With so many alerts coming into their email, pager and SMS, it's no wonder some IT people feel overwhelmed by the amount of noise they must filter out.
- Admittedly there's a good reason for all of these alerts, you just don't need them interrupting you all the time.
- Most of the time these alerts where created for you by someone else and you have no control over their scope or their thresholds.
- Mobile Admin allows you to create personally-scoped notification feeds that build off of its 40+ IT management, administration, and diagnostic tools
“I really like the live, real-time view Rove's Dashboard gives me, [...] I can now have the at-a-glance ability to see what's going on no matter where I may be, and that can save me a lot of pain."
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- Mobile Admin's Dashboard and Notification System monitors your monitors.
- Maybe you are only interested in the alerts generated by one host in your Ops Manager deployment. Just browse to the host in question with Mobile Admin and you can instantly bookmark the current scope of alerts.
- Any time an alert is raised for that host, your device will buzz and an alert will be displayed in the Mobile Admin Dashboard. One click from that Mobile Admin alert takes you directly to the corresponding Ops Manager alerts for that host.
- From there you could actually fix the problem with one of Mobile Admin's 40+ resolver plugins. Once the issue is fixed, return to the Mobile Admin Dashboard and watch the red turn to green.
- All accomplished directly from your mobile device or tablet.
"Rove Mobile Admin gives me the ability to diminish the severity of an issue right from the start, and that means I can keep things well under control, even when there’s a lot happening.”
The following is a list of the Mobile Admin plugins that can be used by the Notification System:
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Backup Exec
Know when and why a back fails. Retry the job from your mobile device or tablet. -
Ops Manager 2007, Nagios and BMC Portal
Tap into your existing monitoring software and create your own mobile alert scope. -
CA Service Desk and Remedy Service Desk
Harness the power of Mobile Admin's CA and Remedy plugins to get alerted of new tickets assigned to you or anyone on your team. -
VMware vSphere and ESX
Push notifications of triggered alarms and events. vSphere, ESX and VM scopes supported. -
HP iLO
Be notified of changes in a server's iLO Health Status. -
Amazon EC2
Receive notifications of EC2 scheduled events and CloudWatch alarms. -
Microsoft Active Directory
Receive instant alerts when Active Directory user accounts are locked out; unlock accounts with one click. -
SolarWinds Orion
Be notified of new alerts from the performance monitor, then resolve issues with one click.
We've also rolled our own monitoring plugins for those of you who don't have access to a monitoring system or for when a simple up-down monitor is sufficient:
- Email server monitor
- Ping monitor
- Website uptime monitor
- Windows performance monitor
- Windows service monitor