Application performance management is needed throughout the application lifecycle, beginning with development and QA, and continuing through deployment and operations. A comprehensive strategy requires analytics that enable both rapid troubleshooting and proactive prevention of problems.
OPNET’s Application Performance Management (APM) solutions ensure that applications will perform effectively in production, that systems have adequate capacity to support them, and that networks that deliver application functionality can meet service level objectives. OPNET’s solutions provide a holistic view into application performance management.
Users, Transactions, Trends, KPI’s
Round-the-clock performance monitoring is essential for ensuring 24/7 business activity and for meeting production SLA's.
End-user monitoring with ACE Live provides visibility of all transactions and users across the enterprise, with detailed real-time and historical information about performance, utilization, route quality, ISP performance, and end-user response times.
Panorama continuously monitors performance-critical Java and .NET applications providing real-time visibility into application components and web server, database, and systems resources across all servers in the application environment.
Performance Problems
Application performance depends on complex interactions among applications, servers, and networks. OPNET's advanced analytics capabilities comprehends these interactions and provides actionable recommendations to resolve issues.
ACE Analyst's industry-leading analytics embed expert knowledge about how applications, servers, and networks interact, providing a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end performance of networked applications.
ACE Live provides global visibility across all users and applications across the enterprise, automatically segmenting response-time delay into network, server and application components. It seamlessly interfaces with ACE Analyst for detailed transaction-level troubleshooting leveraging advanced automated diagnosis and predictive analysis.
Panorama's advanced analytics include the ability to automatically correlate thousands of application and system metrics across multiple tiers to pinpoint a handful of possible root causes. Drill-down capabilities identify specific resources, such as Java classes or database components, that are responsible for performance problems.
Response Times
Evaluating the impact on end-to-end application performance prior to deploying changes to application design or infrastructure is essential for avoiding ineffectual fixes and unnecessary network upgrades.
ACE Analyst's leverages a predictive model created from captured network traces to model application response times in numerous "what-if" scenarios. Its powerful, intuitive analysis environment allows users to adjust infrastructure and application design parameters (such as bandwidth and application message turns) and proactively predict the resulting performance of the application.
Application Code
Deep code-level visibility into the root causes of performance problems is essential for QA, support, and operations teams to provide detailed feedback to development for removing bottlenecks and optimizing application code.
ACE Analyst visualizes individual application messages exchanged between tiers, leveraging detailed application and protocol decodes to provide visibility into code-level application statements.
Panorama provides deep transaction tracing from within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) virtual machine, enabling analysis of execution times at the method level, with drill-down to details such as specific JDBC or ADO calls and SQL statements
Measure Performance Under Load
Analyzing the performance of applications prior to deployment is an essential step in assuring application quality throughout the application life cycle.
OPNET's ACE Analyst, ACE Live and Panorama provide visibility into web server, database, network, and system resources during a load test, enabling in-depth analysis of performance bottlenecks.
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Numerous clients utilize OPNET’s APM solutions for:
- Improving End-to-End Response Time
- QA Performance Testing
- VoIP Deployment and Monitoring
- 数据中心的迁移
- WAN优化和WAN加速部署
Improving End-to-End Response Time
One of the top concerns in most organizations is the end-user experience and ensuring applications are performing well. Applications are tested in QA, but once they are rolled into production, most network managers have a difficult time measuring SLA compliance. Most network managers only know there is a performance problem once they receive a call from the end-user that the network is slow. With web-based applications becoming so critical to organizations today, a negative user experience could lead to a major loss in revenue, because your customer left your website and went to your competitor’s. Improving the end-to-end response time of application performance is a high priority for most IT professionals.
Most organizations lack the visibility to answer the following questions:
- Do I have any problems with the network or the end user experience right now?
- If there is a problem, how bad is it?
- Who is affected by the problem?
- Is the problem temporary or chronic?
- What is actually the cause of the problem?
OPNET’s ACE Live is an end-user experience monitoring solution. It provides real-time, web-based dashboards that allow you to access performance metrics in order to answer these questions, before the end-user’s experience is affected. It also sends proactive alerts and notifications when pre-determined SLAs are not being met and tells you how often you are complying with your objectives. These dashboard reports and alerts provide the network manager with real-time visibility into end-user response time.
OPNET’s ACE Live also has the ability to capture a packet trace and seamlessly integrate with ACE Analyst to perform detailed, root-cause analysis and prediction. So, not only do you know what is going on with the network in real-time, but in a matter of minutes, you can troubleshoot to determine the cause of the problem, receive recommendations for how to resolve the issue, as well as perform “what if” analysis to determine how the fix will affect your SLAs.
OPNET’s ACE solutions provide the visibility into network and application performance in real-time so that critical applications are always meeting service level objectives, while ensuring a positive end-user experience.
When applications fail to scale efficiently after deployment, the time and resources expended on performance troubleshooting have a direct impact on an organization’s business goals. Traditionally, performance optimization requires multiple iterations between test and development teams for application choke-points to be identified and addressed. This often inefficient process can result in delayed deployments, with particularly challenging problems frequently left unresolved, or undiscovered, until production.
OPNET’s Panorama software embeds powerful heuristics and high resolution monitoring of systems and application metrics collected from the QA test lab to analyze application performance. Panorama goes beyond simple load testing to guide QA engineers to the root cause of a problem.
Panorama is helping organizations to:
- Realize speedier deployments
- Resolve problems more quickly
- Facilitate collaboration between the (often disparate) test, development, database, and web performance teams.
Panorama enables organizations to derive significant return on investment in the form of accelerated application deployments, smoother operations, and enhanced staff productivity, while managing costs.
VoIP Deployment and Monitoring
Many organizations experience numerous challenges when implementing VoIP technology. As a network manager, you probably experience many of these issues such as:
- Finger pointing and blame when anything goes wrong
- Trying to achieve real-time performance from a best-effort network
- Managing the convergence and contention of voice and data on the same network
- Existing network management tools not providing the appropriate insight and troubleshooting of a converged network
As a result, managing a VoIP implementation is a guessing game. It is difficult for you to prove it’s not the network, or if it is, you can’t see how best to fix it.
OPNET’s APM solutions provide insight into the quality and root cause of problems and delays of VoIP deployments. ACE Live is a real-time end-user monitoring tool that displays key information to manage the complexity of combined data and voice traffic. ACE Live includes:
- The ability to supply real-time and historical data
- A business context to determine who is affected and which application is involved
- Measurements for both application performance and call quality
- Real-time monitoring of application traffic and voice calls
- Drill down capabilities to the underlying problem source (diagnostics)
OPNET’s APM solutions will reduce the cost of troubleshooting, improve end-to-end response time, and improve end-user satisfaction.
随着商业应用变的更加复杂, 公司对先进的应用程序需求正在增加, 以支持公司执行力和数据转移. 这些应用软件不仅需要多层次的诊断工具,更需要能够准确快速找出问题产生的根本原因. 更为重要的是工具能够提前对执行能力进行分析, 发现问题.并将这些问题在生产之前解决问题.
OPNET’s ACE Live 使得组织机构能够发现关键的应用和流量的危机. ACE Live 可以方便地安装在您网络关键地方重要的交通要点以便衡量您最关键应用的网络自动基线的表现。
OPNET’s ACE Analyst 软件在生产做任何改变之前, 提供危机管理的测试功能, 以确保它们在新环境中的执行能力. ACE Analyst 允许在假设的环境中做性能测试, 包括新版本的应用测试, 服务器的再布置, 或应用程序外包给第三方. 现在你会很清楚的知道哪些性能表现不佳.给你充足的时间解决问题, 避免给您带来不利影响. 在给应用软件做任何改变之前,分析可以发现服务器是否在同一地点, 带见的增强,及应用程序的加速是否对影响效益.
使用ACE的解决方案将为你降底故障排除成本, 减少储运损耗和速度.改善终瑞的响应时间, 将能提高用户的满意度.
企业网络经理设法改善他们面临的诸多不同的应用加速和WAN优化技术问题. 但他们的工具,技术和培训,让他们往往难以做出正确的选择. 在这样一个快速发展的市场,这并不奇怪,面对诸多容易让人混淆的技术服务, 哪个是最好的,应如何评价,如何放心的购买,这将是一个长期的问题.
一些问题，网络管理者可能会问：
- ?我怎么才能知道一个解决方案是否有效？
- ?他们如何影响我区或其他的部分的基础设施？
- ?我如何能证明好处？
- How do they affect my WAN or other parts of my infrastructure?
- ?多重解决方案会相互抵触吗？
- ?我该如何确保解决方案为我的网络变化而持续工作呢？
- 与竞争者的解决方案相比, 一旦安装了
OPNET’s ACE Analyst 它能测量WAN加速的影响或WAN 优化解决方案. ACE Live 在WAN加速和网络优化中提供监测功能. OPNET中的APM解决方案的监测和排查湾加速环境能确保您所遇到的利益，你的愿望，邮政部署。