{"id":652496,"date":"2013-04-15T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=631115"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T18:22:34","slug":"manageengine-hones-enterprise-search-for-it-admins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652496","title":{"rendered":"ManageEngine hones enterprise search for IT admins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who\u2019s been an IT administrator for a decade or more will tell you of the good old days when there was far too little information about the underlying IT configuration of a given enterprise. Now, the problem is too much information \u2014 which can be just as useless unless put into the right context. That\u2019s the issue that ManageEngine said it\u2019s addressing with a new Enterprise Search function for its IT360 IT management software.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are too many IT consoles, too many vendors \u2014 one for network management, one for help desk, one for application performance,\u201d said Raj\u00a0Sabhlok, president of ManageEngine\u2019s\u00a0parent company\u00a0Zoho. Pity the poor\u00a0admins who have to piece all that information together to figure out what\u2019s going on, or worse, what went wrong.<\/p>\n

The search function promises these woebegone admins a \u201cGoogle-like interface\u201d that lets them search on a device name, for example, and get back every instance in which that name crops up.
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\u201cIf you search on the term \u2018Windows\u2019 it will surface all instances of Windows \u2014 in SolarWinds, in ManageEngine, in Numara\u00a0(now part of BMC ), then you click on a hyperlink and it will take you right into that native context,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If you search on a given server type, it will bring back every instance of that server along with all the applications that touch it or have referenced it. \u201cYou can see the nodes, the inventoried assets, any notes in the help desk file or in your CMDB (configuration management database),\u201d Sabhlok said.<\/p>\n

The search is part of ManageEngine\u2019s overall \u00a0IT360 on-premises management product but will work across all relational database backends he said. And the beauty is it will work on competitive management products like the aforementioned SolarWinds. \u201cSolarWinds is siloed. So are we, but we know customers need one way to find and view this stuff,\u201d<\/p>\n

The company may end up breaking Enterprise Search out as a standalone package, over time, he added.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who\u2019s been an IT administrator for a decade or more will tell you of the good old days when there was far too little information about the underlying IT configuration of a given enterprise. Now, the problem is too much information \u2014 which can be just as useless unless put into the right context. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}