Server Monitoring

Today's application environments consist of highly distributed, web-centric, thin-client and mainframe-centric applications. These all run over highly distributed networks, servers and desktops, with a variety of middleware, database and operating systems, and a mix of heterogeneous public and private infrastructures. All are integral components of the enterprise and must be managed and monitored effectively.

ServerVantage, via agent-based or agentless approaches, provides proactive, application-level performance monitoring to keep you up and running. It helps to identify, notify and repair problems with the application, operating system and database before they affect the end user.

Communicate business value

Vantage offers management-facing reports that help communicate IT's value to the business in connection to delivering mission-critical applications. Reports such as the Server Performance and Availability Summary, Top Server Report and Workload Characterization Report provide high-level views of server performance, utilization and workload that help management align IT initiatives and business initiatives.

Manage application performance proactively and troubleshoot with confidence

Predefined templates automatically establish all the necessary metrics, give reasonable thresholds for alarms and help provide a complete understanding of how your applications are performing. These metrics enable staff to monitor and manage key performance indicators including:

• top CPU/memory users
• log file analysis and error checking
• database/SQL statistics
• service/process availability
• connection up/down
• average download time
• URL content/connectivity.

Through its intelligent agents and collectors, Vantage collects a wealth of information that highlights the problem and assists in solving it. With Vantage, you can be confident that you have the right information to resolve the problem—to help keep your application up and running.

Reduce system operation costs

Because enterprises change rapidly and suddenly, Vantage offers intelligent functionality such as wildcarding and blackout capability to help operators quickly configure, deploy and change server monitoring tasks/rules – even for large and varied environments.

Respond to performance problems quicker

By the time end users report a problem, it is often too late. IT professionals find out about a problem after it has affected users and customers. Critical information is needed before or at the beginning of a performance slowdown. Vantage not only collects the right information at the right time, it notifies the right people through paging, e-mail or SNMP alerts when pre-set warning levels are exceeded.

Resolve server problems automatically

When a problem occurs, all that matters is keeping the application up and running. Vantage can automatically respond to events with preventive and corrective actions such as re-establishing a network connection or restarting an application. Performance issues often are identified and corrected before users are even aware that a problem existed.

Get an integrated view of performance

VantageView allows quick access to Vantage products from any workstation within an IT organization, via the corporate intranet. Users can simplify access to information by customizing reports and VantageView navigation trees.

VantageView's web-based reporting features give Vantage users simple, flexible and faster access to server information, including drill-down report configuration and viewing. IT organizations can measure whether service-level commitments have been met on a regular basis, and detail trends over time. Information must be reported on a wide variety of levels, from detailed troubleshooting to management-level summaries. Ad hoc reports are easily created—just select the servers, metrics and time/date ranges desired, and critical information is available at your fingertips. Report data can span a few hours for troubleshooting, or weeks or months for trending.

Create a custom view of your production environment

VantageView Visualizer maps service levels and troubleshooting information from Vantage and other Vantage products according to organizational roles in your production environment. This personalized approach to viewing real-time events lets you:

• customize a global, graphical view of the entire production environment—applications, servers, network links, clients
• stay focused only on those critical events that correlate to your specific environment and job responsibilities
• resolve performance problems quicker.

Manage .NET application performance

Compuware's Vantage suite aids in tuning, troubleshooting and managing growth by providing a comprehensive solution covering the entire .NET infrastructure. Vantage is the perfect solution for obtaining the server perspective of .NET. Web services are unaware of their operating environments, so the server solution must span different platforms. Server agents that run on Microsoft, UNIX and Novell servers provide key metrics on all aspects of server performance ranging from CPU and memory usage to web page hits and database connections. With specific counters developed to monitor .NET servers, Vantage goes beyond traditional Microsoft server management to provide comprehensive monitoring of the entire .NET environment.

Extend monitoring capabilities for SNMP

The Vantage Monitor for SNMP provides a full SNMP monitoring engine, complete with rules, alerts and reporting, that dramatically extends Vantage agentless monitoring functionality to any SNMP-enabled server or device in an enterprise.

SNMP monitoring

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