Agentless Monitor

Agentless

AppPerfect Monitor is a new generation of Monitoring Systems that do not depend on the traditional/legacy agents-based approach to monitoring. Agents impose a great deal of complexity to the monitoring infrastructure and consume large amounts of resources and are intrusive. Agentless monitors, instead, depend on remotely taking advantage of services available on the monitored device. Technique utilized to monitor each device differs, however, the common goal is to make it unnecessary to spend huge amounts of time and resources dealing with a legacy agents-based monitoring system.

Pure Web-based, customizable UI

The AppPerfect Monitor uses a three-tier application architecture with a pure Web-based user interface. The UI is intuitive and easy to use. No need to install large applications or applets to be able to monitor your application infrastructure. With only a browser and Web access, you can easily and seamlessly keep track of your application infrastructure from virtually anywhere.

Ultra light-weight device monitors

Each supported "device" has a corresponding "monitor" available inside the AppPerfect Monitor. These monitor work with their respective devices in a non-intrusive manner. The overhead involved with this type of monitoring is often minimal. Most often, the device's built-in services are utilized to extract monitoring information. Configuring the monitors is a snap and often requires only the bare minimal information. A wide variety of devices are currently supported. With an open interface, Custom Monitors are also possible.

Robust data management

AppPerfect Monitor provides extensive support to gather and manage the collected data. Frequency of data collection can be set to achieve a granular view of your application infrastructure. As the new devices and data grow, support for data consolidation and data archiving is provided. For data that is no longer needed, data purging is supported.

Sophisticated rules engine for alerts 

AppPerfect Monitor provides a sophisticated rules engine to help you design insightful rules to monitor your application infrastructure and alert you when something is not right. AppPerfect Monitor UI provides a "Rule Builder" which makes creation of rules a relatively simple task. Unlike some tools, AppPerfect Monitor fully supports rules where time and duration are a component. For example, send an alert if CPU Usage stays above 90% for 15 seconds.

Automated alert notification 

If a monitored application or device violates any of the rules that are defined, the notification server in AppPerfect Monitor will create an "alert" and automatically notify the necessary personnel about the violation. The recipients of the alert are defined when the rule is defined. Notification can be sent in a variety of mediums, including email and SMS. The notification server provides an open interface which can be extended to provide  the user a customized notification mechanism.

Powerful reporting infrastructure

AppPerfect Monitor provides powerful, real-time, informative and accurate reports that help you trace problems that might be present in the system. Reports are typically used to analyze data that spans over a period of time. Often, such data analysis helps in better understanding the user experience.  AppPerfect provides you with extensive reporting capability. You can customize and generate reports that provide you information that is tailor made to your requirements. It allows you to leverage existing content in several formats. A full featured "Report Designer Wizard" makes it easy to build comprehensive, high-impact, presentation quality reports. Reports can be generated as HTML and PDF formats.  

Security and access control

AppPerfect Monitor provides for security and controlled access to all aspects including viewing status, reports, rules, alerts and so on for viewing of reports and access to the configuration sections of the AppPerfect Monitor. Access is based on users and groups, with a super-user controlled overall privilege structure.

Data Management

AppPerfect Monitor provides support for data consolidation, archiving, purging of data.