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DX UIM 23.4 CU6: Powering Next-Gen Monitoring with UIM Business Intelligence, Automatic Failover, and Enhanced Monitoring Governance

By Ravishu Arora posted Dec 05, 2025
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DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), now available, delivers significant enhancements focused on increasing system resilience, providing advanced business intelligence, and streamlining monitoring governance. With advances in precision, security, and automation, this release helps teams extend the value of your monitoring infrastructure. Introducing UIM Business Intelligence (UIM BI) In this release, we officially introduce UIM Business Intelligence (UIM BI) , our powerful successor to the Dashboard Designer. UIM BI includes a transformative suite of tools and widgets that make deeper, more actionable insights from your monitoring ...
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DX UIM Monitoring Governance Report and Golden Metrics Enhancements

By Adam Frary posted May 20, 2025
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Process Monitoring Ñ Huge Value from a Quick Task

By Stephen Danseglio posted May 09, 2025
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Key Takeaways Make full and thoughtful use of process monitoring, even if it initially seems like overkill. Use process monitoring to help teams improve their management of important environments. Eliminate observability gaps to reduce risk and unlock new opportunities for leveraging automation and comprehensive analytics. DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The product provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network ...
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Extending the Capabilities of DX Unified Infrastructure Management: Release 23.4 CU4

By Ravishu Arora posted Apr 28, 2025
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Key Takeaways Employ DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM), which features enterprise-ready capabilities and monitoring coverage. Implement Release 23.4 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) to gain access to improvements in security and technical currency. Leverage a range of enhancements, including in password policy management, MCS support, and monitoring probe capabilities. Release 23.4 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) for DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) adds significant improvements to the product’s security stance and extends technical currency to support modern infrastructures. The release builds on the proven track record ...
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New, Powerful Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities Delivered in DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 3

By Ravishu Arora posted Jan 22, 2025
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Key Takeaways Leverage the latest release of DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) to access a range of valuable features and maintain strong security. Access the Monitoring Governance Report to easily view monitoring coverage and identify gaps. Tap into enhanced security features, including single sign-on (SSO) capabilities and expanded HTTPS support. DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a cornerstone enterprise solution that can be employed for precise and powerful infrastructure monitoring. For many enterprises, DX UIM is central to their overall observability strategy. Over the years, ongoing ...
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Unlocking the Power of UIMAPI: Automating Probe Configuration

By Steve D'Arcy posted Nov 04, 2024
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Key Takeaways Use UIMAPI to perform virtually any action in your DX UIM environment programmatically. Get instructions and examples on using a Java program to interact with the API. See how to use the UIMAPI RESTful interface to view and update the net_connect probe and create a new profile. The UIMAPI is a RESTful API. With UIMAPI you can programmatically perform almost any action in your DX UIM environment. Using the Swagger front-end as a guide, you can manually execute REST endpoints. However, many customers would rather use a program to automate these actions. This blog focuses on automating probe configuration. We outline ...
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Streamline Your Maintenance Modes: Automate DX UIM with UIMAPI

By Steve D'Arcy posted Sep 16, 2024
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Key Takeaways Find out how to employ automation in DX UIM environments, leveraging UIMAPI. Employ this RESTful API to perform almost any action programmatically. See an example of how to define a maintenance window, and then add and remove a device from maintenance mode. The UIMAPI is a RESTful API that allows you to perform almost any action in your DX UIM environment programmatically. The Swagger front-end serves as a guide, enabling you to execute REST endpoints manually, but many customers prefer to automate these actions using a program. This blog post focuses on using a Java program to interact with the API, and includes ...
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CrowdStrike: Are Regulations Failing to Ensure Continuity of Essential Services?

By Jordi Gascon posted Sep 06, 2024
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Key Takeaways Explore how regulations like DORA and NIS can help promote highly available services, but don’t provide 100% security. Improve regulatory compliance and security by implementing monitoring and controls, even for outsourced services. Employ Broadcom solutions to address regulatory requirements and establish service resilience and security. Total security is Utopia In recent years, regulations have been enacted that intend to ensure the continuity of essential services and mitigate security and availability risks. These regulations include the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and Network and Information Systems ...
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Monitoring the Monitor: Achieving High Availability in DX Unified Infrastructure Management

By RowanCollis posted Aug 28, 2024
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Key Takeaways Eliminate single points of failure by ensuring every component has a backup and a seamless transition process. Implement comprehensive high availability strategies in DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) to mitigate risks and ensure continuous operation. Utilize failover configurations to facilitate continuous monitoring and prevent service interruptions. DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. DX UIM provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their ...
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Elevate Your Database Performance: The Power of Custom Query Monitoring With DX UIM

By masru01 posted Aug 23, 2024
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Key Takeaways Track the most relevant custom database checkpoints for your company. Provide data for full-stack infrastructure observability. Harness data from multiple databases. In today's data-driven world, while new storage solutions and data lakes continue to emerge, many companies still use traditional databases with specific needs for tracking activities. Custom queries, tailored to particular applications or use cases, are crucial for identifying performance bottlenecks, slow-running queries, and resource-intensive operations. Monitoring custom database queries is essential for the following efforts: Query analysis ...
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Enhancing IT Monitoring with DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 2

By Ashish Aggarwal posted Aug 16, 2024
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Key Takeaways Employ the latest release of DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) to access a host of new enhancements. Leverage integration with DX Operational Observability to establish enterprise-grade, full-stack observability. Access the latest features, including AWS hosting, advanced alarm views, user experience improvements, and enhanced performance. In the ever-evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, staying ahead of potential issues and ensuring optimal performance is crucial. Broadcom’s DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) has been a trusted solution for comprehensive monitoring and management. With the ...
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Password-less Authentication for Device Discovery in DX UIM 23.4 CU 1

By Adam Frary posted Aug 12, 2024
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Objective Monitors in the Context of Active Directory (AD) Servers

By Ashish Aggarwal posted Jul 26, 2024
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Key Takeaways Track LDAP response times to improve Active Directory's responsiveness and reliability. Detect and address replication delays to maintain data consistency and uptime. Analyze detailed metrics to enhance server configurations and resource efficiency. Let’s dive into the world of Objective Monitors in the context of Active Directory (AD) servers and explore why monitoring them using DX Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) is crucial. What are Objective Monitors in AD servers? Objective Monitors are specialized monitoring objects within the DX UIM AD_Server probe. Here’s what they entail: Granular insights ...
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Combine DX UIM and DX Operational Intelligence for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Observability

By Steven Guthrie posted May 31, 2024
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In this blog by Ashish Aggarwal, lead product manager for infrastructure observability, he describes how hybrid cloud – a combination of public cloud, private cloud and/or traditional on-premises data centers – combined with DX UIM and DX Operational Intelligence is a good option for cloud repatriation projects based on cost, compliance and/or control considerations. READ BLOG
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Early Adopters Drive Feature Enhancements with New CU1 Update for DX UIM 23.4

By Ashish Aggarwal posted May 31, 2024
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Infrastructure Observability Can Help Navigate Cloud Repatriation

By Ashish Aggarwal posted May 03, 2024
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Key Takeaways Implement infrastructure observability tools to improve cloud repatriation planning. Leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to make informed decisions about which workloads to move and where. Utilize comprehensive visibility and automation features to streamline the migration of services back to on-premises environments. Cloud repatriation is a term used to describe the act of taking workloads off public clouds and relocating them elsewhere. This might involve moving them back to an on-premises environment. Reasons for cloud repatriation Cost : Companies often start using cloud providers due to ...
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High Availability Solution for Infrastructure Data Fed into the AIOps by Broadcom Solution

By Ashish Aggarwal posted Apr 30, 2024
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DX UIM monitoring data is a critical component for correlating collected data against thresholds, service level objectives and predictive analytics and feeding the AIOps by Broadcom solution, which provides centralized alarm management, dashboarding and reporting, and business service analytics. {{cta('c74447df-217b-430d-9746-6b322d065e3a','justifycenter')}} #DXUIM
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Universal Monitoring Agent: A Powerful, Flexible and Innovative Approach to Monitor Modern Apps

By Srikant_Noorani posted Apr 29, 2024
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Key Takeaways Deploy the Universal Monitoring Agent to unify monitoring across diverse IT environments and improve visibility. Leverage the agent’s flexible instrumentation options to address different scenarios. Harness information within containerized platforms to discover applications and infrastructure elements. Microservices, cloud native, and complexities With the advent of microservices and cloud native, organizations are shifting how they approach software development and deployment to become more agile and respond quickly to continually evolving business needs. These changes result in fundamental transformation for IT. ...
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management: Comprehensive Observability for Hybrid Environments

By Adam Frary posted Apr 29, 2024
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DX UIM is a comprehensive solution for traditional and hybrid cloud monitoring that also includes inventory, alarm-, and service level management functionality. It provides observability for IT operations personnel, tools administrators, server admins, data center managers, and other IT personas. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability, and zero-touch configuration for monitoring and alarming set-up to dramatically reduce the capital expense, time-to-deploy, and time-to-value. While many DX UIM customers have been using aspects of the solution for many years, dating back to the ...
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MCS Enables Zero-Touch Monitoring and Alarm Configuration with DX UIM

By Steven Guthrie posted Apr 24, 2024
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MCS streamlines management of monitoring configurations & alarm policies for 100s of target devices simultaneously through templates and profiles. It leverages DX UIM groups to apply zero-touch monitoring & creates intuitive dashboards to provide a perspective of deployment as per devices & groups. For information on MCS, read this blog & access the MCS Customer Adoption Guide. READ BLOG
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