If Agents Are a Showstopper ...
While many organizations cringe at installing and maintaining more agents, for true application-specific data they are a necessity, and Quest's approach is a reasonable one.
Still, if you just can't bring yourself to add one more agent, Quest can provide visibility into your critical applications anyway, albeit without as much depth. Synthetic transactions are created using a Recorder that is a wrapper around an Internet Explorer browser object; this makes their creation easier, and being able to tweak each step of the transaction enables simple troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
In addition, Quest offers an appliance that focuses on the collection of application packets across the network. The appliance deployment was straightforward and involved configuring the network settings in a typical Linux text menu. Integrating appliance configuration into the Foglight Server is on the product roadmap, and it will eliminate the piecemeal approach that is prevalent today.
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FEATURED PRODUCT: Quest Foglight. The list price for licenses is $8,000 per FxV and FxM appliance, and $3,000 for the Foglight Server. Server management licensing is $1,000 per CPU for OS monitoring, and $8,000 per CPU for the full monitoring library, including synthetic transactions. ABOUT THIS ROLLING REVIEW: Application performance management products are being tested at our Real-World Labs at Windward Consulting Group. We're assessing the breadth of support for existing applications, how well the product detects and reports on performance problems, how well the architecture supports distributed application performance monitoring, and whether the software supports a tiered architecture with native high-availability and failover capabilities. We'll also explore how well the offering detects the true performance issue and how seamlessly it integrates with the surrounding environment. ALREADY TESTED: Indicative. NetIQ, NetQoS, Compuware, Nimsoft See all the APM Rolling Reviews here. NEXT UP: Network General |
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