> ## Welcome to Progress Fathom Management
> Standard Edition

> Progress® Fathom™ Management is a system management center that provides visibility, analysis, and proactive monitoring of critical information assets. Fathom Management optimizes the availability and performance of OpenEdge-based applications through system monitoring, alerting, and automatic handling of corrective actions. Fathom Management empowers Progress Software customers to become more efficient, decrease the cost of managing the OpenEdge environment, and ensure high availability and performance.

> Fathom Management provides database administrators and systems operations managers with the performance tools and processes required to configure, monitor, diagnose, and manage the OpenEdge environment. Fathom Management not only monitors local and remote OpenEdge databases, system resources (CPU, disk, memory, file system), file resources, and OpenEdge resources (AppServer™, NameServer, and WebSpeed® Transaction Server), it also monitors non-Progress components such as TCP-based network services. Deep monitoring provides more information and more detail about your environment, enabling you to proactively manage operations and make your life easier.

> Progress Software Corporation believes that you need a product that provides the best business and development solution, plus the highest level of services and support to back it up. This booklet provides the essential information you need to begin using Fathom Management Standard Edition. It contains an overview of the Fathom Management product, descriptions of the new features in this release, as well as descriptions of the technical support, education services, and consulting services that are available to you as a Fathom Management user.

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