Virtualization/Cloud Monitoring
Solution Overview
Companies are rapidly evolving their data centres to achieve the benefits of private cloud. To achieve the maximum return on their investments, they need to lay a stable architectural foundation across the infrastructure. Watch4Net accelerates the adoption of a private cloud model by helping its customers to monitor their evolution to the private cloud, before and after efforts are initiated.
APG' unique data representation against traditional reporting solutions makes it the ideal solution for monitor virtualized networks and virtualized server environments, and monitor business critical applications in today's cloud computing networks.
Key Features
Visibility on the virtualized environments
Virtualization projects are the first step to transition the data center to private clouds. APG helps you making informed virtualization decisions, by gathering configuration and performance data on the virtualized environments, to provide real-time, historical and projected view of your virtualized infrastructure, From a summary group, users can drill-down to individual hosts servers, then to virtual machines. At each layer, users see the health and identify clearly the root-cause of performance degradations. Built-in analysis gives you an automatic way to be alerted on current problems, and potential future problems.
Focus on End User Experience Monitoring
With APG, organizations can set up scheduled synthetic transactions to regularly check the availability and response-time for a given IT service. A complete set of monitors are available to measure and analyze web servers URLs, DNS/DHCP services, and all TCP-based user transactions. Metrics are compared against normal baselines and an alert is sent when downtime or performance degradation is detected.
Understand the application behavior
APG integrates various technologies - such as Cisco Netflow, IP-SLA, QoS, WAN optimizers statistics, Load Balancers statistics - to detect traffic spikes and understand traffic patterns at certain times of the day, and use this information to scale your deployment. This data provides details about applications running on the network and users exchanging data, down to the end-to-end conversations. The information enables network managers to analyze problems, understand resource usage, and plan new applications' deployments.
Coverage of maximum technologies within a data-center infrastructure, from network to applications to storage
The APG Software Suite provides a single pane of visibility across critical applications, databases, Web servers, and network and security devices. Information is analyzed in real-time and presented to Operations Managers and Customers. The APG Software Suite is an integrated and modular system providing detailed insight on the Network, Load-balancers, Application tiers, Physical and virtual server tiers, Storage infrastructure and Service levels experienced by end-users.