Key Features
Unified Platform for Performance Management
Multi-Technology Visibility
APG reports are adapted to multiple technologies and audiences so that everyone in your organization has relevant reports for troubleshooting, forecasting, capacity planning and SLA monitoring.
- Prepackaged technical reports & strategic dashboards
- Preconfigured KPI with built-in analytics (best practice thresholds)
- Certified templates for major devices and technologies
Unified Data Collection
The APG server collects and centralizes data across multiple sources, direct from devices and management applications. Once collected, data is normalized to ensure conciliation, aggregation and cross-domain performance analysis.
- Collectors for SNMP, Flow Receiver, SSH/Telnet, SQL, XML/SOAP
- Listening Mode (socket)
- Adapters for EMC Ionix/Smarts
- Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM, Microsoft, SCOM and more
Real-time and Historical Reporting
Users access reports via a web-based portal. All reports display the latest data available. Users can scroll in the past for historical analysis. A real-time grapher is available to see information live.
- Near real-time reports (configurable)
- Historical reports (configurable)
- Projected reports (capacity projections)
- Live reports (up to the second)
Capacity Planning and Forecasting
APG performs real-time baseline analysis on thousands of metrics to detect deviations from normal behaviour. Capacity planning reports help engineers to plan capital expenditures, and predictive alerts help operators to be proactive for potentialperformance problems.
- Dynamic thresholds
- Baseline Deviation Analysis
- 95th percentile reports
- Trending reports, using polynomial algorithms
Response Time and Transaction Monitoring
With APG, organizations can set up scheduled synthetic transactions and regularly check the vailability and response-time for a given IT service.
- Cisco IP-SLA, discovering probes and option to create ones
- Juniper RPM, 3Com NQA
- Application availability/response time
- Cisco Class-Based QoS
- Adapter for EMC Ionix (ACM)
Customizable Reporting and Data Collection
APG includes all the necessary tools to customize reports or create new ones from the ground up, including tables, graphs and geo maps.
- Dynamic Grouping of resources
- Intuitive Report Builder
- Graphical MIB Loader/Browser
- Data Enrichment to collected metrics
- Maintenance Periods (outage)
KPI Computation
APG calculates complex KPIs using mathematical expressions, called “formulas”. Numerous preconfigured formulas are provided for most common situations.
- Formula Editor calculates combo metrics, using mathematical and boolean operators
- Library of predefined formulas (baseline, percentile, SLA penalties ...)
Adaptive Alerting
Alerting on current or predicted performance degradation is performed using almost any kind of alerting input. Alerting formulas can be modified or created to analyze system status.
- SNMP Traps to fault management systems
- Emails
- Script Execution
- Logs
Multi-Tenancy Web Portal
APG is designed to support multi-department and multi-customer environments. Data collection can be geographically distributed, databases can be segregated, and views from the portal can be limited by user or profile.
- Role-based and User-based Access Control
- Admin Delegation
- LDAP authentication
- IP Overlapping Support
Native integration with various EMS/NMS
APG mines topology, events and performance metrics from EMS/NMS to consolidate data while avoiding double-polling. Integration between consoles is also provided.
- Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM
- EMC Ionix
- Huawei N2000/M2000
- Microsoft SCOM
- Raw data export and reports using XML/SOAP API
Scalable, Distributable Architecture
A single APG server can manage thousands of devices and process millions of indicators. Several APG servers can easily be deployed to support the growing load.
- Distribute all layers (Collectors, databases, portals)
- Runs on virtualized environments
