No agent deployment. This bodes well in particular for certain kinds of service provider environments, where intelligent agents require an uphill marketing battle. Magnum's application focus is Oracle. Its systems focus is limited, not surprisingly, to looking at systems devices as extensions of the network. It doesn't compete head to head with vendors such as BMC, Dirig and NetIQ - not yet.
Scalability is strong.
Magnum has tested up to 80,000 managed nodes with Coordinator as an integrated, synchronized solution and can process thousands of events per second. While certain environments will require more nodes, this is not a bad beginning. Combining root-cause, performance and SLM makes sense. For a new player, Magnum has shown vision in combining historical trending and performance with effective root-cause analysis and strong topology, and leveraging these as foundations for service management. Integration also is positive, in that Magnum already works with Tivoli, Hewlett-Packard, Remedy, and other vendors.