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VISUAL Message Center's
Web Applications ThinAgents help you improve the availability and performance
of applications that use a Web browser-based interface, and help you monitor
the real user experience of your employees, customers and partners in
real time.
Monitor your entire network and Web environment at all
levels of infrastructure and applications, from your TCP/IP network ports,
devices and email services, to your Web-based commercial transactions.
State-based events can be obtained from any network component using SNMP
or ping operations.
Covering all physical and logical levels of your Web
applications, the Network Services ThinAgents, the Web ThinAgents
and the new Web Transaction ThinAgent help you make sure that everything
is under control in all your Web domains and that your business processes
are running smoothly.
No more network bottlenecks, email failures, Web downtime
or slow end-user experience. VISUAL Message
Center's Web Applications Monitoring ThinAgents will help you maximize
uptime, get the best quality service from your Internet service provider
and increase the value of your Web presence.
Network
Services ThinAgents
Tango/04 Network Services ThinAgents allow you
to monitor in real time the status of all your networked devices and services.
Detect problems and slowdowns; automatically restart inactive devices,
and measure total downtime with historical reports.
Dedicated agents check the health of POP3 and SMTP
email servers, and check port availability of any networked device - locally
or over the Internet.
You can even retrieve new messages from a POP3
account to detect errors in devices that send emails to communicate operating
problems.
Any network device that supports the Simple Network
Management Protocol, SNMP, can be monitored using the SNMP ThinAgent,
enabling you to monitor the availability of servers, routers, switches,
printers and other devices.
The operating health state of all components can
be viewed directly from the ThinkServer
Configurator, or can be sent to VISUAL Message Center's SmartConsole
for full alert and automation capabilities.
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Use the ThinkServer
Configurator interface to easily configure your Network Services ThinAgents
and begin monitoring your email and Web servers instantly. Use the
predefined values or customize in seconds your network and service
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Technical Overview
Run any number of service checks
on local networks or the Internet:
- Check any type of host or port - regardless
of the operating system or device type
- Use IP addresses or DNS e.g. mail.tango04.com
- Control your POP3 email servers:
- Check availability and response times
- Check mailbox access, user profiles, passwords
- Check mailbox size in Kb or by number of
messages
- Download messages - redirect to the SmartConsole
- SMTP email server:
- Check availability, response times
- Check access, user profile, password
- Check sent message loop
- Check networked services, check port, response
times:
- Web servers (HTTP)
- FTP
- Telnet
- Client Access
- Third party applications - ERP, CRM etc.
- Monitor SNMP-enabled networked devices
- Easily retrieve any SNMP variable from any
device
- Setup custom event severity states
- Capture SNMP traps sent by devices
- Ping networked devices:
- Printers
- Routers
- Disk subsystems
- SAN storage etc.
- Check availability, response times
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New
Web ThinAgents
The new Web ThinAgents help you easily integrate
your e-Business environment in your monitoring solution.
Are there any broken links in the homepage? Is
a particular image missing? Are there any Page not found (404) errors?
Is your Web site loading quickly? Why is it so slow? Is it a server problem,
a connection problem or a result of poor design? Can you get proof so
that you can demand better service from your Internet provider?
Now there is an immediate answer to all of these
questions. VISUAL Message Center's new
Web ThinAgents generate messages and alerts in real time about the operating
health of your servers and your Internet, Extranet and Intranet pages.
Monitor the Availability of Web pages
- Embedded documents
- Hyperlinks
Monitor the response time of your Web pages
- Detailed report of response time: entire page,
page details, network, etc.
Monitor Web page content
- Simple security test of your Web page: Does
your Web site show what it should display? If not, is it possible that
your page has been hacked?
Monitor General operating health of your Internet
site with Web page variables
- The Web Data Adapter returns values from specific
fields on your Web pages so you can integrate them in your monitoring
environment.
Your Web page is the business card of your company and
your brand image. Ensure your visitors enjoy an optimal user experience.
Generate reports to demonstrate the actual levels of service received
from your hosting provider or communication links.
The new ThinAgents allow you to control the quality
of your Web presence using the full power of VISUAL
Message Center.
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New
Web Transaction ThinAgent
Companies must simulate transactions carried out on the
Web to control the availability and performance of their Web applications.
The goal is to obtain a picture, as realistic as possible, of the actual
user experience of their customers, employees, partners and other users
of their Web-based applications.
Many critical business processes depend on Web-based
applications, or business processes with a Web component. It is extremely
important to make sure that Web applications are working correctly, are
permanently available and provide optimal response times. Any glitches
or crashes should be prevented or corrected immediately.
The new Web Transaction ThinAgent can reproduce transactions
executed by any Web application over the Internet, including WebSphere
and CRM applications. By simulating a real transaction, this agent helps
you measure the response time, availability and many other relevant indicators
of your business' operating health.
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VISUAL Message Center's new Web
Transaction ThinAgent uses a very simple procedure for configuring
Web pages to monitor. Simply activate the recorder and carry out the
different steps in the transaction you want to monitor. The Web Transaction
ThinAgent will then automatically carry out these steps and measure
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Simply "record" a typical
Web transaction from end to end. The Web Transaction ThinAgent will then
measure the user experience while navigating a Web page or any application
with a Web browser.
Measure the load time of a Web
page and the different steps that comprise a transaction, i.e. entering
text, selecting an option from a list, load time of a link, and more.
Connection and HTTP errors are
automatically verified and diagnosed, indicating the necessary steps to
resolve the problems and to implement proactive controls. In addition,
the VISUAL Message Center SmartConsole
retrieves this information and allows for simple yet detailed reporting
regarding the state and performance of transactions.
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With the VISUAL Message
Center Web Transaction ThinAgent it is very easy to edit and debug
the script of a recorded Web transaction in order to refine and customize
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This new ThinAgent can also measure transactions on 5250
(iSeries) and 3270 (mainframe) consoles with a Web interface. Use IBM
WebFacing, Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), iSeries Access
for Web (for older systems) or other third party development tools to
easily create a Web interface for 5250 or 3270 applications. This greatly
extends the usefulness of the Web Transaction ThinAgent to natively developed
applications.
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