Solution Overview

About OPNET TechnologiesOPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of application and network performance management solutions. OPNET’s solutions deliver broad visibility and monitoring across infrastructure domains as well as deep data collection and analytics to enable powerful root cause diagnosis. These solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide.

OPNET Technologies, Inc.

OPNET Technologies, Inc. 7255 Woodmont Avenue

Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA

phone: +1 (240) 497-3000

email: info@opnet.com

www.opnet.com

www.opnet.com

© 2011 OPNET Technologies, Inc. OPNET is a registered trademark of OPNET Technologies, Inc. All trademarks are the properly of their respective owners and used herein for identification purposes only.

AppResponse TM

End-User Experience, Network Monitoring and Analytics

AppResponse Xpert™ VMonAppResponse Xpert VMon provides vis-ibility of all the communications for the applications that are hosted on virtual servers, including communications within the physical server as well as traffic to and from systems outside the physical server. It offers the same industry-leading real-time monitoring and troubleshooting as OPNET’s hardware-based AppResponse Xpert appliances, with analytics that auto-matically identify the root cause of applica-tion performance problems. AppResponse Xpert VMon offers a lower total cost of operation (TCO) than other solutions that require an external appliance for analyzing data, offering reduced power consumption and a smaller footprint.

AppInternals Xpert™Deep Application Component Monitoring and Analytics

AppInternals Xpert delves into the complex software frameworks of modern servers to extract vast amounts of performance and forensic data for all aspects of application performance management from the server perspective. AppInternals Xpert supports any type of application, but excels in Java and .NET environments. It automatically de-tects cause-and-effect relationships among thousands of continuously tracked system and application metrics across multiple tiers, to diagnose root cause.

AppMapper Xpert™“What’s in Your Application?”

AppMapper Xpert automatically produces a run-time application map, identifying the underlying application components and in-frastructure components that enable a pro-duction application. This model of the ap-plication, captured at the time of execution, is essential for troubleshooting application performance problems and provides criti-cal information to improve a host of other operational workflows, such as configuration and change management, and data center virtualization and consolidation.

AppSQL Xpert™Agentless Database Performance Monitoring

AppSQL Xpert provides deep visibility into database performance through real-time monitoring of a broad range of metrics, with drill-downs to fine-grained forensic data-base transaction data for troubleshooting. It performs detailed tracking of database usage for trending and performance optimi-zation. Its agentless approach imposes zero overhead on database operation.

AppTransaction Xpert™Deep Transaction Performance Analysis and Prediction

AppTransaction Xpert is a powerful tool for detailed analysis of individual transactions. In today’s complex application architec-tures, a single transaction can involve many tiers and require thousands of messages to traverse the network. AppTransaction Xpert processes and merges traces taken in the production environment, making extensive use of patented visualization and analytics to accelerate troubleshooting in produc-tion, as well as pre-deployment testing and prediction.

AppTelemetry Xpert™Agentless Application and Network Component Monitoring

AppTelemetry Xpert uses remote instru-mentation interfaces (e.g., SNMP) to capture performance information from infrastruc-ture components that may otherwise be difficult to access, including servers, ap-plication components, network devices, and vendor-specific management systems. AppTelemetry Xpert supplies real-time and historical data for a more complete picture of end-to-end application performance.

“Wow, I wish we had [AppResponse Xpert] a year ago. This would make troubleshooting and capacity plan-ning much easier.”

Sr. Technical Services ManagerFinancial Services Company

“This gives us visibility that we can’t get from any other tools. This would save us a lot of man hours in trouble-shooting time.”IT DivisionState Government

“If it wasn’t for AppResponse Xpert, we would have been still sitting here trying to figure out why video conferencing was awful.”

Network EngineerState Lottery Commission

“This problem has happened before and we took a couple of days to iden-tify it. Using AppResponse Xpert we were able to do it in 15 minutes.”

Network AnalystFinancial Services Company

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Solution Overview

Benefits ■ Troubleshoot application performance problems faster.

■ Detect application performance problems early, with no overhead on your application environment.

■ Ensure the performance of web-based business transactions.

■ Eliminate “finger-pointing” among IT teams concerning the source of application perfor-mance problems.

■ Understand and address usage and performance trends for your applications and networks.

■ Detect unauthorized or anomalous usage of network and server resources.

Use AppResponse Xpert to: ■ Measure application performance for internal and external users of your enterprise applications.

■ Monitor live performance for all users all the time, and alert against SLAs.

■ Break down application response time into contributing sources and launch troubleshooting of root causes.

■ Analyze traffic and response time among servers to manage multi-tier applications.

■ Visualize communication within the data center and across the WAN.

■ Measure traffic by application, user, business division, and location.

■ Analyze historical information for trending and capacity planning.

■ Measure performance of VoIP calls while they are in progress.

■ Detect unexpected com-munication between ap-plication components.

■ Baseline performance before making a change, and quantify the impact.

AppResponse Xpert is an appliance-based solution that monitors and analyzes end-user experience for all levels of transac-tions. It also supports in-depth monitoring and analysis of the underlying network, a domain that is vital to comprehensive Application Performance Management (APM). AppResponse Xpert leverages the central role of the network in transporting transaction data to obtain vital informa-tion about relationships among clients and servers, and also among server tiers. On-board analytics extract transactions from application flows and break down ap-plication response time, identifying which parts of the infrastructure are contribut-ing most to delays. AppResponse Xpert automatically summarizes data according to applications and user-defined business entities such as locations or departments.

■ A single AppResponse Xpert appliance supports a variety of use cases, including deep packet inspection and application recognition; end-user experience monitor-ing at the user transaction level (e.g., web page level); high-volume packet capture and storage; flow-level analytics; NetFlow collection and reporting; and VoIP call monitoring. Other solutions typically re-quire multiple appliances and servers and cover fewer use cases.

Pinpoint the source of application response time delay.

Monitor response time of web transactions at the page level.

Key Features ■ Agentless deployment for low overhead.

■ 24x7 monitoring of all users and applications.

■ Automatic application discovery and classification.

■ Web page-level performance analysis.

■ Automatic URL classification for SSL decryption.

■ Centralized appliance management, including data aggregation and consolidation.

■ Executive-level business reporting and web-based dashboards.

■ High-volume packet capture and large capacity, long-term storage for forensic analysis of any transaction.

■ NetFlow data collection, to obtain visibility of communications between remote locations, and provide joint analysis of traffic flows and application response time data.

■ Real-time monitoring and historical data collection for VoIP calls.

■ Broad family of appliances to support a range of throughput and storage requirements.

■ Software appliance that restores visibility of traffic between virtual machines within a server.

■ Specialized support for networks with WAN acceleration, including Riverbed Steelhead and Cisco WAAS devices, for accurate, end-to-end visibility.

■ Customizable dashboards and workflows to suit your organization.

■ Citrix Certified support for applications deployed over Citrix.

Integration with Other OPNET Solutions ■ From dashboard view, seamlessly drill into AppTransaction Xpert for in-depth analysis of individual multi-tier transactions.

■ Drill-down into AppInternals Xpert for conclusive root cause diagnosis when AppResponse Xpert indicates that the server is the source of excessive end-to-end response time.

■ Leverage AppTelemetry Xpert to display network performance data along the entire layer 2/3 network path for a transaction, and inspect server performance.

■ Export traffic flow data into OPNET’s network performance management solutions, for network operations and planning.

■ Incorporate SQL transaction performance data from AppSQL Xpert into AppResponse Xpert, for a single, unified view.

■ AppResponse Xpert provides detailed information about application components and relationships to AppMapper Xpert, which automatically creates a run-time application dependency map.

Ask Us About... ■ How our breakthrough storage architec-ture enables long-term retention of un-precedented volumes of data for forensic analysis of performance problems.

■ How our appliances leverage their expan-sive data set to report performance of both object-level and business-level transac-tions.

■ How our appliances are based on mature, proven technology with a 10-year track record of success in the field.

AppResponse TM

■ Web transaction response time is mea-sured at the page level—the same way users experience it. Many vendors offer only HTTP request/response performance measurement.

■ Each appliance operates independently, and can serve its own data, avoiding dependency on a centralized platform for analysis and reporting that represents a single point-of-failure.

■ Flexible deployment options include both hardware and virtual appliances.

■ One-minute resolution for aggregated performance statistics is more fine-grained than the typical 5- and 15-minute collection intervals.

■ Web application performance is reported for every individual transaction.

■ Dashboards and reports are easily cus-tomized to provide application-specific, intuitive screens and workflows adapted to the needs of your staff.

■ Simple, fast deployment delivers rapid ROI and low TCO.

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OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Solution Overview

About OPNET TechnologiesOPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of application and network performance management solutions. OPNET’s solutions deliver broad visibility and monitoring across infrastructure domains as well as deep data collection and analytics to enable powerful root cause diagnosis. These solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide.

OPNET Technologies, Inc.

OPNET Technologies, Inc. 7255 Woodmont Avenue

Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA

phone: +1 (240) 497-3000

email: info@opnet.com

www.opnet.com

www.opnet.com

© 2011 OPNET Technologies, Inc. OPNET is a registered trademark of OPNET Technologies, Inc. All trademarks are the properly of their respective owners and used herein for identification purposes only.

AppResponse TM

End-User Experience, Network Monitoring and Analytics

AppResponse Xpert™ VMonAppResponse Xpert VMon provides vis-ibility of all the communications for the applications that are hosted on virtual servers, including communications within the physical server as well as traffic to and from systems outside the physical server. It offers the same industry-leading real-time monitoring and troubleshooting as OPNET’s hardware-based AppResponse Xpert appliances, with analytics that auto-matically identify the root cause of applica-tion performance problems. AppResponse Xpert VMon offers a lower total cost of operation (TCO) than other solutions that require an external appliance for analyzing data, offering reduced power consumption and a smaller footprint.

AppInternals Xpert™Deep Application Component Monitoring and Analytics

AppInternals Xpert delves into the complex software frameworks of modern servers to extract vast amounts of performance and forensic data for all aspects of application performance management from the server perspective. AppInternals Xpert supports any type of application, but excels in Java and .NET environments. It automatically de-tects cause-and-effect relationships among thousands of continuously tracked system and application metrics across multiple tiers, to diagnose root cause.

AppMapper Xpert™“What’s in Your Application?”

AppMapper Xpert automatically produces a run-time application map, identifying the underlying application components and in-frastructure components that enable a pro-duction application. This model of the ap-plication, captured at the time of execution, is essential for troubleshooting application performance problems and provides criti-cal information to improve a host of other operational workflows, such as configuration and change management, and data center virtualization and consolidation.

AppSQL Xpert™Agentless Database Performance Monitoring

AppSQL Xpert provides deep visibility into database performance through real-time monitoring of a broad range of metrics, with drill-downs to fine-grained forensic data-base transaction data for troubleshooting. It performs detailed tracking of database usage for trending and performance optimi-zation. Its agentless approach imposes zero overhead on database operation.

AppTransaction Xpert™Deep Transaction Performance Analysis and Prediction

AppTransaction Xpert is a powerful tool for detailed analysis of individual transactions. In today’s complex application architec-tures, a single transaction can involve many tiers and require thousands of messages to traverse the network. AppTransaction Xpert processes and merges traces taken in the production environment, making extensive use of patented visualization and analytics to accelerate troubleshooting in produc-tion, as well as pre-deployment testing and prediction.

AppTelemetry Xpert™Agentless Application and Network Component Monitoring

AppTelemetry Xpert uses remote instru-mentation interfaces (e.g., SNMP) to capture performance information from infrastruc-ture components that may otherwise be difficult to access, including servers, ap-plication components, network devices, and vendor-specific management systems. AppTelemetry Xpert supplies real-time and historical data for a more complete picture of end-to-end application performance.

“Wow, I wish we had [AppResponse Xpert] a year ago. This would make troubleshooting and capacity plan-ning much easier.”

Sr. Technical Services ManagerFinancial Services Company

“This gives us visibility that we can’t get from any other tools. This would save us a lot of man hours in trouble-shooting time.”IT DivisionState Government

“If it wasn’t for AppResponse Xpert, we would have been still sitting here trying to figure out why video conferencing was awful.”

Network EngineerState Lottery Commission

“This problem has happened before and we took a couple of days to iden-tify it. Using AppResponse Xpert we were able to do it in 15 minutes.”

Network AnalystFinancial Services Company

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