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AppMetrics Overview
“Maximize the availability of your applications built on the Microsoft platform”
Corporate Background
Founded in 1998 Strong relationship with Microsoft Market-leading products Headquartered near Boston,
Massachusetts USA Proven track record of
complex installations Premier, cross-industry customer base
Some of our Customers
What Our Customers are saying
“By using AppMetrics, the availability of the application has increased by several percentage points. Considering for every one percentage point of additional availability 1000 man-hours of down-time are saved--this has resulted in millions of dollars in improved efficiency throughout our organization.”
Products
AppMetrics® for Transactions
AppMetrics® for BizTalk Server
Application Availability
Xtremesoft provides extensive monitoring tools to prevent outages, ensure service levels, and provide data for root-cause analysis on custom MTS, COM+ and BizTalk Server-based applications.
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ApplicationServer
IntegrationServer
Web Services
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What happens when…
A mission critical com+ or BizTalkapplication hangs?
Transactions take too long or don’t complete?
Identify specific software module that’s not working?
Diagnose & pinpoint the problem? Understand trends of Application for
capacity planning? Customers are affected?
Common Challenges
“Black Box” theory Applications crash, no way of
predicting problems Time consuming to diagnose
the root-cause Finger pointing meetings Difficult to predict scalability of
application Downtime & lost revenue
Improve Visibility
Problem detection – be the first to know when performance starts to deteriorate
Problem diagnosis – identify which software module (component, method) is the culprit
Problem reporting – proactively manage service levels agreements (SLAs)
Problem avoidance – drive the capacity planning process for business applications
What does AppMetrics do?
AppMetrics
Performs the following functions:
Extracts metrics Consolidates data Alerts on thresholds Monitors performance Identifies trends Diagnoses root cause Delivers reporting for
service level agreements Manages events
So you can:
Better understand operations
Take corrective action Alert resources and rapidly
respond Anticipate future needs Control the application Audit and secure
transactions Archive histories
New Terms
AppMetrics Manager Dedicated machine that analyzes, alerts, reports on a set of
AppMetrics Agents
AppMetrics Agent Installed on each MTS/COM+ machine Listens to event sub-system and relays to manager
AppMetricAppMetricss
ReportsReports
AppMetricAppMetricss
ConsoleConsole
Monitoring the MTS/COM+ Based Middle-Tier
SQLSQLServerServer
AppMetricAppMetrics Managers Manager
AppMetricAppMetrics Agents Agent
AppMetricAppMetrics Agents Agent
AppMetricAppMetrics Agents Agent
AppMetricAppMetrics Agents Agent
Extract and Acquire
Mid Tier
Analysis
Enterprise Mgmt
NT Event Log
AppMetrics Display
Email and Pager
Data Warehouse
Acquisition Action
AppMetrics Manager
MTS
NT
COM+
SQL ServerOLAP Services
Analysis
Database
WebServer
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App
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W2K
BizTalk
Consolidate and Analyze
Mid Tier
Analysis
Enterprise Mgmt
NT Event Log
AppMetrics Display
Email and Pager
Data Warehouse
Acquisition Action
AppMetrics Manager
MTS
NT
COM+
SQL ServerOLAP Services
Analysis
Database
WebServer
n –t
ier
App
lica
tion
W2K
BizTalk
Alert and Notify
Mid Tier
Analysis
Enterprise Mgmt
NT Event Log
AppMetrics Display
Email and Pager
Data Warehouse
Acquisition Action
AppMetrics Manager
MTS
NT
COM+
SQL ServerOLAP Services
Analysis
Database
WebServer
n –t
ier
App
lica
tion
W2K
BizTalk
Alert and Notify
Alerts let you know when your application is getting into trouble Transactions or components take too long Transactions abort Application crashes Memory usage Too many threads in the
application
Alert and Notify
NT Event Log SMTP / Mail / Pager SNMP / Enterprise Frameworks Trigger automated process Take corrective action
Monitor Performance
Historical view of the application’s health Feed the capacity planning
process Discover trends Identify bottlenecks
Identify Trends
Trending view of application’s health Discover trends Plan for future growth
Diagnose Root Cause
Drill down to troubling Component or Method StartCompleteCompleteStartComplete
Deliver Reporting for SLAs
Reports Summary
Top ten transactions Top ten components
Application performance CPU % Memory Page faults Threads
Transaction statistics Number active Rate Duration DTC time
All transactions Number active Rate
Components Number active Rate Duration
Benefits
Monitor the performance of your Applications Identify problems you may have today Helps feed the Capacity Planning Process Reporting for Service Level Agreements Real-time alerting and monitoring Provide business intelligence Eliminate meetings and finger-pointing Answer questions like
Why is this application slow? Are there memory leaks?
Contact us at:Xtremesoft, Inc.
800 West Cummings ParkWoburn, MA 01801 USA
+1 (781) 937-3800www.xtremesoft.com