About JMACINC

John MacLeod Consulting has been in business since 1995, with a long-term focus on Systems Management.  Clients include IT departments of every size, covering many industries, non-profits and the government.  Most of my clients were frustrated by commercial products they found too difficult to maintain and overly expensive.  Whether your monitoring deployment is large or small, if it is running smoothly, adding value and within budget, congratulations on being one of the very few who can say that.  The force is truly with you!

For everyone else, I'm here to help.  My component-level monitoring focus covers three products:

• Zenoss Core
• NetIQ AppManager
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

Since all component-level monitoring products have hard limits on the value they add beyond raw problem detection and alerting, I also work with two products in the area of IT Process Automation (ITPA), also known as Data Center Automation (DCA).  These products build on the incident detection layer with customizable event correlation, service desk integration, business service metric collection and reporting:

• NetIQ Aegis
• Opalis Integration Server

Finally, I work with Netuitive SI for those clients who demand the very best in performance analytics and predictive capability across a range of servers and applications.