Performance Management
Ensuring Application and Infrastructure Health 24/7
In most network and datacenter infrastructure environments, the best leading indicator of impending failure is the marked degradation of resource performance over time. For example, CPU or memory utilization in a server trends higher as application loads increase over time, and may eventually cause the system to slow down. Similarly, increasing network traffic and application usage can drive interface utilization rates upwards to unsustainable levels. The job of a performance management system is to monitor and record the changes of workload, utilization, and user experience over time and notify administrators when these breach specified threshold levels. With historical insight into how performance has trended over time, network and system administrators can take preemptive steps to reallocate workloads, augment capacity and maintain utilization rates within acceptable levels.
The WhatsUp Gold IT management platform and its related plug-ins offer powerful performance monitoring and management capabilities - that provide a comprehensive view of IT infrastructure and application health. Apart from the routine CPU, memory, disk and interface monitoring for both physical and virtual infrastructures, the platform supports in-depth traffic monitoring and analysis to identify top conversations and protocols; synthetic transaction monitoring to verify application integrity for FTP, SQL, SMTP and HTTP communication; and granular visibility into key metrics for business applications like MS Exchange, MS SQL, My SQL, and any Unix and Windows processes. The breadth of cross-silo performance management offered by the WhatsUp Gold platform is the key to integrated IT management of today’s multi-tiered application architectures.
| Performance Management Challenge |
WhatsUp Gold Solution |
| Out-of-the-box performance monitoring |
WhatsUp Gold and its related plug-ins provide several pre-configured performance reports that are automatically deployed when infrastructure assets are identified through role-based discovery. |
| Consolidated access to performance data across the infrastructure |
The integrated Alert Center workspace reports and full reports provide complete access to historical reporting and graphing for every monitored network and system device and application. |
| Multiple types of performance monitoring |
WhatsUp Gold supports multiple types of performance monitoring and reporting including resource utilization, synthetic transaction completion and application process metrics. |
| Integrated physical and virtual systems monitoring |
WhatsUp Gold Premium along with its WhatsVirtual plug-in provides seamless access to performance information for both physical Windows and Unix servers and VMware ESX/ESXi virtual machines in one single, consolidated platform. |
| Modular and well integrated solution set |
WhatsUp Gold offers modular component solutions to solve specific security and event log management problems like archival, on-the-fly analysis, alarming or troubleshooting –that also work well together as a complete suite to fully protect and secure the network. |
