[October 07, 2008]

New Version of CA Network Management Offers a Comprehensive, Integrated Solution for Improving Service Availability and Optimizing Operations

CA eHealth Network Performance Manager r6.1
-- CA eHealth NPM r6.1 improves network service availability across IT
  infrastructure by proactively pinpointing service degradations to
  enable corrective action before users and business processes are
  affected. New enhancements to the solution include:
 -- Live reporting and monitoring features, including historical and
   live trending on a single screen, analysis down to 30-second
   intervals, and a time-over-threshold (TOT) availability rule to
   reduce false positives during planned and transient conditions.
   These features move users further from reactive to proactive
   network management by alerting them of systemic performance
   issues before users and business processes are adversely
   affected.
 -- New traffic monitoring, application usage and reporting
   features, including an embedded NetFlow V9 collector, pre-
   defined reports, and custom report-building capabilities. These
   features allow customers to identify application traffic on the
   network and who is using those applications. The result is
   faster mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) network issues based on
   application usage, which reduces the business impact of poorly
   performing networks.
CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager r9.0
-- CA SPECTRUM NFM r9.0 helps IT organizations avoid the risk and cost
  of unreliable network operations by providing best-in-class,
  integrated network service, fault and configuration management.
  The enhanced version includes several new network change and
  configuration management features that provide the ability to
  capture and store configurations, automate tasks, detect and audit
  changes, maintain policy compliance, and produce activity reports
  that enable faster MTTR and reduce business impact. Other
  enhancements to the solution include:
 -- A new Network Configuration Manager Extension Toolkit allows
   customers to self-certify any network device for configuration
   management and new capabilities for integrated network
   configuration management.
 -- A new module to integrate event information from a wider range
   of sources. This will help to enrich events and alarms with
   external data often located in multiple databases and to
   forward alarm information to multiple sources.
-- Both CA eHealth NPM r6.1 and CA SPECTRUM NFM r9.0 include several
  new, common features that provide continuous time-to-value:
 -- CA eHealth NPM and CA SPECTRUM NFM are designed to support IPv6.
   This functionality is important to many government agencies,
   service providers and large enterprises.
 -- Continued investment in adding to and expanding the breadth of
   device certifications, which reduces the amount of time and
   money required to deploy new network devices by eliminating
   manual procedures.
 -- An enriched, consistent Web-based "OneClick" user interface that
   provides greater efficiencies for network administrators,
   managers and operators.
New Integrations with CA Solutions
-- The CA Network Management solution helps customers to simplify
  network performance, fault and voice management and unify these
  disciplines with other CA management solutions for IT service
  availability management. Following are the newest integrations
  with CA's Application Performance Management; Change,
  Configuration and Release Management; and Database Management
  solutions:
 -- CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA eHealth NPM: New synchronized network
   device discovery, synchronized naming, and single sign-on
   improves the efficiency of managing network devices;
 -- CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA Wily Introscope: New capability for CA
   SPECTRUM NFM to discover Introscope agents, create models and
   receive alarms enables a tight integration between network
   service, fault and configuration management and application
   performance management;
 -- CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA CMDB: New ability to export CA SPECTRUM
   NFM managed assets in a Configuration Item (CI) format
   compatible with CA CMDB improves the efficiency of maintaining
   a configuration repository;
 -- CA SPECTRUM NFM, CA eHealth NPM and CA Insight Database
   Performance Monitor: Newly enhanced visibility into databases
   for faster resolution of network performance issues.

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