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| User Case Scenario
- Insurance |
| Equitable Distributors,
Inc. is an affiliate of The Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States. Equitable has been
a member of the global AXA Group since 1991. With
more than $655 billion under management (as of
12/31/98), AXA ranks as one of the world's largest
and fastest growing insurance and investment management
organizations. The success of their operations
depends on ensuring the availability of accurate
information of customer accounts. |
| The
Challenge |
AKCP
Solution |
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millions of customer records and hundreds
of transactions every minute Equitable Life
has to have a robust computer and network
infrastructure with high tolerance levels.
Angela Husted, Sr. Network Engineer,
Equitable Distributors, Inc .
"One of our server rooms is undersized
for the amount of equipment that it holds,
in addition the air conditioning has proven
to be unreliable. In that one room we have
30 servers and 4 Cisco routers. I wanted
to know that if I went home at 5:00, I could
be notified of any problems that might occur
later that night. I didn't want to come
to work in the morning to a room full of
dead equipment. |
The
aim of IT support at Equitable is proactively
averting hard system and network failures
before they occur. To manage their network
Equitable zeroed on AKCP's remote
infrastructure monitoring Device sensorProbe.
Angela has Unicenter configured
so that when it gets an event from AKCP's
temperature sensor a perl script is run
that sends her a page. Currently she must
come back to work to manually turn off
the computers, but Angela says that she
is looking forward to trying the AKCP
Inc's sensorProbe so that I can remotely
power down the computers." |
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The Result achieved
Reduced Downtime - sensorProbe
helps companies increase uptime and availability
through advanced notification of potential problems
and faster mean time-to-repair when failures
do occur.
Increased Profits - sensorProbe
is easy to implement and does not require the
deployment of costly, intrusive agents.
Increased Employee satisfaction
- Built in notification features like Email, SMS
and SNMP traps, sensorProbe8 allows employees
to manage their work and lives better. |
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