FireScope, a developer of IT operations software, has debuted its IT operations management dashboard solution.

FireScope offers a real-time, intuitive and customizable look at the entire availability, performance and security of an enterprise¹s assets, enabling IT managers to instantly assess‹and even diagnose‹any aspect of the system¹s health.

FireScope, sold and installed as a network appliance or group of distributed appliances, creates a web-based portal that reports on the operational status of any server, router, application or other networked asset. FireScope has a flexible, AJAX-driven, real-time GUI comprised of portlets that can be tailored or even hot-deployed to fit enterprise needs. Any JSR-168-compliant portlet can be applied to the FireScope system; the solution also offers a library of portal templates suitable for any operational or analytical need.

With the importance of IT availability and performance growing daily‹not to mention the diversity and intensity of security threats, it¹s critical that IT managers have a better way to track and investigate their assets, regardless of location. Mark Lynd, president of FireScope said this is redefining technology that both simplifies and empowers the IT manager¹s task. "And because FireScope is based on open source, it combines both FireScope¹s proprietary technologies and the best security applications available."

FireScope takes full advantage of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to support its interactive graphs and tabular data. Information is updated in real time using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), pushing data aggregated from all network assets into the dashboard. The portal also comes pre-installed with open source security applications pre-installed and ready to use, giving users an instant look at their entire environment¹s health the same day FireScope is plugged in.

For more information, see www.firescope.com/ . ENS