Application Monitoring

Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of

• J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
• J2EE Web Transactions,
• Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
• IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
• SOAP Web Services,
• SAP Servers,
• Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
• web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.

AppInternals Xpert can provide valuable analysis for any type of application, but excels in particular in Java and .NET environments. It continuously monitors thousands of system and application metrics within each server, across all application tiers, and automatically spots performance anomalies.

AppInternals Xpert uses unique technology to provide deep instrumentation with very low overhead. Its patented correlation technology automatically detects patterns in metrics and events, revealing cause-and-effect relationships and pinpointing issues that might otherwise go undetected. AppInternals Xpert also utilizes advanced, low-overhead continuous tracing techniques to provide deep visibility into application code as it executes.

Key Features:

• 24x7 high resolution monitoring of key application components (Java, .NET, databases, Web Services)
• Thousands of application and system measurements are automatically correlated across multiple tiers to reveal unknown sources of application performance problems
• Deep transaction tracing enables a detailed analysis of execution times at the method level, and identifies specific JDBC or ADO calls and SQL statements that are responsible for application performance problems
• Memory analysis and real-time memory leak detection
• Insight into physical resource consumption of guest VMs enabling proactive identification of performance issues related to insufficient VMware provisioning
• Real-time dashboards visualize key performance indicators for your critical applications
• Dynamic thresholds automatically adjust limits based on historical performance, reducing false alarms
• Compatible with hundreds of custom and 3rd party business applications, including SOA environments

Now you can know the performance of a application or transaction (not just if it is up or down), determine if a problem is application or equipment related, and proactively correct potential problems before they become critical. The IT Appliance will follow any transaction or application process from its beginning to completion. How long the process takes will be captured for trend analysis and an alert sent if it is outside of an acceptable range. Measurements can be taken behind your firewall and from our remote Network Operations Center. Alerts and reports can be monitored by the customer or our engineers.

Application Vantage helps identify and resolve application performance problems in production. By providing detailed troubleshooting analysis, Application Vantage helps pinpoint the causes of poor end-user response times for mission-critical applications to the client, the network, a server or the application itself.

Additionally the business centric view also helps prioritize alerts in production as it helps visualize the Business Applications that are impacted.

Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of

• J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
• GlassFish and Sliverstream Application Server,
• Database Query monitoring,
• Active Directory monitoring,
• J2EE Web Transactions,
• Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
• IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
• SOAP Web Services,
• SAP Servers,
• Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
• Monitor your network from Applications Manager by integrating ManageEngine OpManager through Network Monitoring Connector,
• Web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.

Monitor 25 Applications for $795 / Year

Are you an over-worked network administrator? Get calls complaining about system outages you have no way of monitoring? Don't know if your payroll server is up or down? Rest easy. AppMon makes it easy to run applications and monitor them from your current network monitoring package….even restart your applications automatically if they fail!! Get AppMon and get some sleep, you deserve it.

How AppMon Works
STEP 1: AppMon is installed locally on a server that has applications that need to be monitored.
STEP 2: AppMon starts one or more programs that you specify.
STEP 3: Configure your network monitoring tool* to monitor the appropriate TCP/IP port where AppMon resides.

That's it! If any one of the Applications started by AppMon fails (or is accidentally closed), you will be notified visualy, audibly, by email and through your network monitoring tool.

Axence nVision is a solution for comprehensive network management and monitoring. It consists of the following 5 functional modules, installed in custom combinations and managed from one console:

• Proactive network monitoring and visualization: The Network module monitors mail servers and Web addresses, TCP/IP and Windows services, application status and operation, and switches and routers (port mapping and network traffic). The network is automatically detected and presented on interactive maps.
• Hardware and software inventory: The Inventory module automatically collects the hardware and software information of Windows machines. It enables auditing and the verification of license usage and offers information about program installation or configuration change.
• Advanced user monitoring: The Users module monitors and reports the activity of users working on Windows machines: the actual activity (work) time, application usage, email monitoring, printout monitoring, visited web pages and network transfer. Blocking websites option.
• Remote technical support for users: The HelpDesk module, including trouble ticket database and chat, enables a quick technical support for users by means of remote access to the workstations. It helps solve the reported problems in a quick and effective manner.
• Protection against data leaks by port blocking: The DataGuard module manages the access rights for all I/O ports and physical devices utilized by the users to copy files from a company machine or to run external software.

The program offers a wide choice of alarms, reports (including real-time and historical charts), corrective actions and browser-based access. FREE fully-functional 30-day-trial available.

IT professionals spend an inordinate amount of time and money installing and maintaining system management applications. Current solutions require so much time and effort that even the largest organizations monitor only a fraction of their total IT investments. In turn, this forces the IT staff to tactically respond only to the most pressing problems. The end results are poorly performing applications, frustrated customers and an overwhelmed IT staff.

BMC Software’s solution - BMC Performance Manager - monitors the performance and availability of servers, applications and storage and network devices. Monitoring is accomplished remotely (agentless) with no software residing on the elements being monitored. BMC Performance Manager also integrates with BMC Performance Manager to provide a sliding scale of management across the enterprise - from infrastructure monitoring to infrastructure management to service management.

BMC Performance Manager also monitors the performance and availability of Web transactions. Monitoring both infrastructure and transactions enables IT to quickly determine how infrastructure problems affect the end-user experience and resolve them.

Key Features & Benefits:
* Drives down operating costs by remotely monitoring availability of storage and network devices, systems and application infrastructure
* Measures customers’ true end-to-end Web site experiences with the ability to simulate visitors from outside the firewall
* Improves service levels by reporting service problems and notifying the appropriate contact after pinpointing the problem
* Determines whether backend infrastructure and Web sites meet SLAs by measuring their performance and availability against defined objectives
* Offers all parties centralized access to reports via a Web portal
* Integrates data into BMC Performance Manager Console using BMC Performance Manager Knowledge Module (KM)
* Available as a licensed product or a subscription-based service

Distinct Network Monitor translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred. Not only is it easier to use than any other competing products, but it also translates the packet negotiation into natural language, something no other network protocol analyzer does.

Distinct Network Monitor also captures several network traffic statistics for the network segment being monitored and provides a graphical representation of the statistics gathered. This feature may be used together with packet sniffing or on its own. When used on its own, the statistics can potentially span most of the network if Distinct Agents are installed on one system per subnet or switch.

Feature Summary: Captures network traffic and interprets it in plain English. Gives an intelligent interpretation of what actually happened on the network. Imports packet trace files taken with other networks analyzers and views them in Distinct’s plain English format. Supports high speed and wireless networks. Supports 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and wireless TCP/IP adapters and 4/16 Token Ring cards. Works over serial line with a PPP connection. It allows you to filter at any level. You may filter the capture itself to avoid the collection of unnecessary packets and reduce the size of your capture. You may also filter a captured file and save the packets filtered to a new, smaller, more manageable file. Has a Remote IP Sniffing capability through its Agents. Gathers statistics related to the traffic seen by the system it is running on. It includes the ability to produce statistical reports in HTML format. Exports the network packet trace. This allows you to make use of the data gathered right in your application. Packet header information may be exported in a comma separated format (CSV) for use with Excel or imported into a database. Supports a wide range of protocols. It includes parsers for the most important protocols of the Internet including IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, H323, SIP, etc.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, CPU usage, FTP & HTTP Servers Group Membership, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, Disk Space, Event Log (with content checking), File Existence (with content checking), TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server.

You can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything

The NetIQ AppManager Suite is a comprehensive solution for proactively managing the performance and availability of Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems and server applications. When deploying Windows 2000, administrators can use the AppManager module for Windows 2000 Active Directory to track key Active Directory metrics such as replication traffic, ensure important services are available, monitor the growth of Active Directory, and help determine if the directory should be trimmed. The end result it that IT personnel can now use AppManager to not only centrally manage distributed Windows 2000 systems and applications such as Exchange 2000 Server, but also monitor the health of the underlying directory that users depend on to access those same systems and applications.

NetIQ Security Manager is an industry-leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that provides protection for your critical data and systems.

It provides host-focused security for your vital infrastructure and enables you to satisfy your toughest compliance challenges by automating security activity reviews, log collection, threat management, incident response, and change detection.

With NetIQ Security Manager, you will be able to reduce both organizational risk and workload by addressing far more easily some of the most demanding compliance and data security requirements, including:

• Change detection and file integrity monitoring
• Privileged-user monitoring
• Log management, analysis and query-based forensics
• Security event correlation, forensic analysis, and integrated response

Imagine adding a thousand pairs of eyes to your network, each working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to monitor critical operational metrics:

• Device Monitoring and Management (SNMP)
• Network Traffic and Activity Monitoring
• Bandwidth Monitoring
• Service Monitoring
• Protocol Activity Monitoring
• Disk and Volume Monitoring
• Syslog and Event Log Monitoring
• Security Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting
• Cisco Netflow Analysis and Reporting
• Email and Pager Notification / Alerts
• Environmental Monitoring

NetQoS SuperAgent tracks and measures end-user response time—without desktop or server agents. It monitors all the TCP application packets as they travel from the network through the data center and out again, providing a way to measure network round trip time, server response time, data transfer time, and much more.

SuperAgent breaks response time into its basic components: application, server, and network delay. This analysis enables you to rapidly troubleshoot network and application performance bottlenecks and quantify application performance. It continually measures and analyzes performance for all transactions, compares the response time against the baselines and thresholds that it calculates, and alerts you to application performance deterioration. SuperAgent automatically investigates the cause of problems as they occur and provides key diagnostic data to help you quickly solve network and application performance problems.

You can also create any number of custom rules to enforce the security policies adopted by your company.

In addition to security logs, OpManager’s Windows Event Log Monitor can monitor application, system and other event logs. Several rules are available out-of-the-box to monitor mission-critical applications like Exchange, IIS, MS-SQL and ISA servers. You can also add custom rules to monitor events generated by any application. Rules are also available to monitor directory services, DNS server and File replication servers.

OPNET Technologies provides the industry's most comprehensive, integrated solution suite for Application Performance Management (APM).

• Breadth: Provides visibility across the application footprint, including Java, .NET, custom applications; web and application servers;, database servers; client machines; routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls, and WAN accelerators
• Depth: Obtain high quality, fine-grained data specifically targeted at troubleshooting application performance
• Integration across domains: Ability to obtain, analyze and report on data that allows a progressively deeper analysis starting with a symptom, going through triage, and leading to root cause isolation
• Analytics: True correlation of performance-related metrics and events, adaptive base-lining of performance metrics, rules-driven analysis, and advanced visualization that synchronizes data across application tiers to present an integrated view
• Low Overhead: Patented, industry-leading capabilities for collection, long-term storage, and rapid retrieval of high-volume, fine-grained data

OPNET’s High Definition APM suite:

• AppResponse Xpert uniquely combines end-user experience monitoring and in-depth analysis of network performance to obtain complete visibility of IT services across the enterprise.
• AppInternals Xpert looks deep into the complex software frameworks of modern servers to perform High Definition monitoring and forensic analysis for any type of application, and excels in particular in Java and.NET environments.
• AppMapper Xpert automatically produces a run-time application map, identifying the underlying application and infrastructure components that enable a production application.
• AppTransaction Xpert leverages patented visualization and analytics to dramatically improve pre-deployment testing and prediction, and accelerate troubleshooting in production.
• AppTelemetry Xpert uses remote instrumentation techniques to provide visibility into the performance of the underlying application infrastructure, including servers and network devices.
• AppSQL Xpert provides deep visibility into database activity and measures the performance of database transactions.

Process Monitor (PMON) can execute any of the following when a monitored program stops running: register an event, e-mail someone, shutdown server, execute a program or stop a program. Up to 50 programs can be monitored at the same time.

An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, in-depth analysis and concise reporting.

A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported: SNMP and WMI, Packet Sniffing, and NetFlow. PRTG Network Monitor includes more than 30 sensor types for all common network services (e.g. PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc.), allowing users to monitor networks for speed and failures. As soon as an outage occurs, alerts are sent via email, SMS, pager messages and other means. Request times and downtimes are recorded in an internal database, making it easy to compile performance, downtime and SLA reports. PRTG Network Monitor's Freeware Edition is completely free for personal and commercial use. The Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors.

ServerObserver can monitor your servers working on any operating systems if you only inform it of your servers and your concerns. ServerObserver periodically monitors web servers(HTTP, HTTPS), mail servers(POP3, SMTP), directories(LDAP), databases(Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, ORACLE), domain name systems(DNS), file servers(FTP), and any TCP port of any server as well as inquire out a server alive(PING). You can specify the tolerance limit of the round-trip time(RTT) in the normal state. ServerObserver sends a request and measures the RTT, and notifies you if the RTT exceeds the limit. You can detect whether a web page is modified. ServerObserver compares the current content of the page specified by a URL with the content acquired in the last monitoring. You can observe the performance of Windows servers. ServerObserver investigates the CPU usage, the disk usage, and event logs. It can find whether a process is running as well.

Notification : You can instruct the ServerObserver to inform you of notable situations (such as no response, the excess of RTT(or CPU usage or disk usage), the detection of modified pages, the recovery from other notable situation) by sending an e-mail, showing a popup window message, performing a VB script, executing an external application, and/or play a sound. You can ask the ServerObserver for sending an SMS message on your mobile phone and pager.

Reporting : Reports come to your hand! The report wizard of ServerObserver generates daily, weekly, and monthly reports on monitoring results. You can choose the type of report among HTML text, MS Word and MS PowerPoint document.

This software is available as a download version or as a standalone appliance. It runs on a central system and monitors all network based sensors over tcp/ip from one single location.

When a problem is detected, alerts can be generated via email, SMS (cell phone text messages), telephone voice calls (using text-to-speech), signal tower (visual and audible alerts), and much more.

By using a GSM modem alerts are sent over the cell phone network. This ensures that alerts are still sent even when the internet or internal network connection is down. SMS messages can also be sent to the software to obtain status information. Check out the live SMS demo available on our website.

Companies around the worl are using ServersCheck's products to monitor, report and alert on their systems availability and/or conditions. The solution is available in 38 languages. A free trial version of the software can be downloaded from the link below.

If your site is found to be down or unavailable, it immediately notifies you via Email, SMS, Twitter or RSS so that you can take corrective actions quickly before it affects end users. It comes with a 15 day free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee. You can also monitor two websites at 60 minutes poll interval for free using the Free account.

Some of the key features of Site24x7 includes:

• Website Availability Testing
• Website Performance Testing
• Web Application Monitoring
• Mail Server Monitoring
• Web Page Analyzer
• DNS Server Monitoring
• TCP Connect, Ping and Port Monitoring
• SSL Certificate Monitoring
• FTP/SFTP Monitoring
• Global Website Monitoring Network
• SLA Management
• Customizable Reporting
• Data Import/Export
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Mobile Access
• Multi-Language
• Performance Metrics
• Uptime Reporting
• Downtime Reporting
• Email / Twitter / SMS Alerts
• Alert History
• Customiziable Alert Templates
• Contact Grouping
• Operations Dashboard
• Multi-user Management

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Get feedback on your application performance. Monitor and improve the performance of your Windows-based client-server applications with this handy quality assurance tool. WinFeedback reports availability and performance for mission-critical business applications. It measures response times for real application transactions as experienced by end users. It is ready to use without any time-consuming mapping or scripting.

In addition to systems and network management, Zyrion Traverse also does application monitoring of databases, web apps, java applications, mail servers, exchange, blackberry enterprise server, etc.

Some key features include:

• Bandwidth monitor
• Linux Server monitoring
• Windows Monitoring
• Cisco router monitoring
• Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server monitor
• Exchange, Active directory, etc.

• SLA
• Real time event logs, traps, syslogs
• Capacity planning
• Performance and Trend analysis