“nLayers offers a flexible application optimization solution that yields immediate value. Without installing any additional software, modifying or disrupting our application production environment, nLayers immediately compressed our project schedule by automatically identifying and documenting underused servers and their dependencies.” Alex Sagers, Director of Corporate IT, Interwoven

nLayers Features for Network Administration and Compliance

Automated Passive Discovery

• Agentless, non-intrusive easy to install solution that deploys in 60 minutes.
• The only IT infrastructure discovery solution with application-level visibility.
• Accurate and current application relationship and dependency maps.
• Unique Application Behavioral Modeling Engine (ABME) ™ to capture application demand, performance and utilization information throughout time.
• Continuous, real-time monitoring of application component relationships and dependencies.
• Customizable policies to notify you of application performance and behavior changes.
• Unlimited scalability within the data center - one appliance would handle up to 96 switches concurrently.

Automated Active Discovery

• Automatically discover all infrastructure hardware and software components in real-time including
• Server configuration information including installed applications, operating system, patches, CPUs (type, number, speed), memory, file systems, IP addresses, bios, network devices, and DNS information
• Software configuration information including vendor, version, installation directory, application components, deployed applications, configuration files and more
• Instant configuration comparison including drill-down comparisons of server and application configurations

Real-Time Change Tracking

• Automatically create and maintain a real-time log of changes to thousands of  hardware and software CI including  installed applications, patches, memory, file systems, IP addresses, application components, deployed applications, configuration files and more
• Capture change information for CI values in configuration files
• Color-coded maps provide easy visualization changes across the business and IT infrastructure in real-time
• Search for changes by business applications, servers and services
• Easily compare differences between hardware and server configurations

Management

• Robust Web Console for visualization, analytics, and management
• Comprehensive analytics that provide actionable information.
• Robust solutions for your strategic business initiatives.
• Customized groups to create views and business applications
• Create and save detailed application relationship and dependency maps
• Open APIs provide easy integration with 3rd party provisioning and change management applications