The Support for Adobe Flash has come to the end: Can you afford your infra monitoring screens go blank? 

The Adobe Flash Player is a history and your MF ITOM Suite shall require an upgrade to latest versions if not done yet or your monitoring gets impacted. 

We are specialized in upgrade projects and now more specialized in upgrading in the current scenario to help you with the situation. If you are running older versions of MF ITOM Suite, this situation is both threat and opportunity. The opportunity is that new versions of ITOM suite are coming up with new features to help you with advanced monitoring. 

Here you go with the summary of added features coming with the latest releases. 

OMI 

OBM functionality that contained Adobe Flash that now has improved usability and performance 

  • Automatic Runbook Execution, Event Repository, Event Details, Event Suppression, Event Processing Automation UI, Event Forwarding, Hierarchy Components, Policy Template, Related Events, Event Browser Search, User Group Assignments
  • Also upgrading to latest versions gives a few highlighted features to help you cater to the latest infra trends
  • Monitors public and private cloud— services such as AWS, Azure/Azure Stack, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenShift.
  • Automated service modeling— provides a top-down representation of your cloud-based services and services that span cloud and on-premises.
  • Streaming agent – is a low footprint agent designed for cloud usage but usable anywhere.

APM 

APM functionality that contained Adobe Flash 

  • User Reports – status reports, analysis reports, trend reports and others
  • 360 Degree View – a high-level overview of the status of Cis

In addition to new non-Flash functionality, upgrade offers additional benefits that help you manage and monitor your applications:  

  1. Eliminates the need to run Java applets in your browser using the Windows Local Client app
  2. Measuring SLA Performance with CIs through enterprise management system integrations 

NNM 

  • NNMi functionality that contained Adobe Flash 
  • Real Time Graph – An option has been available since NNMi 10.21 which users can select to view non-flash graphs. 
  • Performance Troubleshooting Console – This functionality was removed in NNMi 2018.11 and flash files were completely removed from the installation in NNMi 2019.05 Patch 6.  A non-flash option is now available in NNMi.

In addition to removing Adobe Flash, upgrading offers additional benefits that help you manage and monitor your enterprise network: 

  1. New capabilities, enhancements, and device support 
  2. Increased reliability due to quality and design updates 
  3. A simplified upgrade process 

How can we help you to address this situation? 

With many upgrades, we have evolved the strategy to help our customers to address this situation with minimal impact. Here you go with our strategy to help you. Please feel free to reach out to us for further assistance. 

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Author: Sajith Bosco