CA's Wily Manager Keeps the Bad Guys Out

Security is job one for most organizations. Knowing who and when someone is accessing (or trying to access) the network can give IT professionals a lot of insight into just how secure their systems are. To give them a hand in this effort, CA has announced the availability of Wily Manager for SiteMinder Web Access Manager, an extension of Wily Introscope, an enterprise application management tool.

The new product extends Wily Introscope visibility into CA SiteMinder, an identity and access management product that protects critical IT systems and services with user authentication and access control. The extension of Introscope will allow transactions to be monitored throughout the login and authentication process.

The new Wily Manager for SiteMinder provides real-time visibility into the performance of the SiteMinder Web server agents, application server agents, and CA TransactionMinder agents. This lets Wily Introscope customers view the time transactions spend to check resources, identify users, and authenticate users to access protected resources.

By aggregating data from all SiteMinder policy servers and agents, Wily Manager for SiteMinder allows IT teams to monitor real-time performance metrics from SiteMinder, including average response time for login ; successes, failures, and errors per measurement period ; and socket availability for SiteMinder processes.

Wily Manager identifies problematic transactions and displays those transactions with correlated metrics from the SiteMinder environment to speed problem resolution. It also monitors SiteMinder Policy Server metrics such as version, port, cache availability and cache size for the Policy Server and individual SiteMinder agents. Wily Manager is priced at $1,500 per CPU that uses SiteMinder agent. SiteMinder is priced at $35 per user.