PerfoMon: Localize weak spots with Performance Monitor

Brief info

With the PerfoMon performance monitor developed by Consist Software Solutions, complete monitoring is now possible in heterogeneous systems. PerfoMon gives you information about the load on critical system and application components, so that processes and resource planning can be optimized.

Overview

The complexity of IT systems is continually increasing. The search for the famous bottleneck becomes a trial of patience, and the feeling for the security of the running operations becomes a risk. Too many components are necessary today to support a complex business process. The result is that a variety of tools are used to monitor individual components, which doesn't significantly simplify the situation. And then add another problem: the more complicated any IT system, the more departments in the enterprise bear responsibility for the overall process. This is a fact which doesn't exactly simplify the finding of errors or the implementation of necessary measures for operational security.

The advantage of PerfoMon

Critical metrics in heterogeneous system and application landscapes are provided centrally at a glance  by PerfoMon. Already existing monitoring tools for individual components can be integrated. Thus it is possible to do monitoring over system boundaries - even over the boundaries of areas of responsibility. Hardware-related and operating system-related metrics are monitored, along with metrics from application systems. Besides critical metrics, content can also be reported. This options makes the monitoring of IT supported business processes possible, too – both in online and in batch systems.

Application examples from the field

• Bottleneck analysis: PerfoMon can be used to locate bottlenecks in IT systems, for instance in the case of an increase in the number of users and the associated increase in system load. This allows you to find weak spots before they become problems.
• Trend analysis: Once PerfoMon is installed, system behavior is monitored continuously.  Based on the data collected, efficient trend analysis can detect bottlenecks early.
• Scaling: If a component of the overall architecture is replaced or introduced, changes or potential weak spots in the system can be detected immediately. In this way, an alternative system configuration or an alternative product can be tested under real conditions for operation under identical load conditions.
• Monitoring service levels: Technically oriented service levels, such as response time behavior, availability of individual components, or the processing time of dedicated business processes are especially easy to monitor with PerfoMon.
• Performance analysis: Ideally, PerfoMon can already be used as a test and performance tool even during the development of software. Each individual transaction within an application can be tested in this way. Java applications can be analyzed with PerfoMon after development, with no change to source code.
• Measurement of load balance: PerfoMon can be used to collect all information necessary to perform load balancing of all system components. The optimum dimensioning and load of all components can represent a significant potential for savings.

Representation of a monitoring log

Functional principles

PerfoMon monitors critical components of an IT system as well as IT supported processes and bundles the information it receives. Results from monitoring systems already in place can also be evaluated. The determination of critical metrics is tuned precisely to the existing IT landscape.  PerfoMon is based on a slim architecture, as it is essential for the production system to have as little additional load as possible.
In the PerfoMon performance monitor, Consist Software Solutions provides a thorough monitoring tool which can work with the entire system landscape (mainframes and midrange servers with nearly any operating system, networks, applications, and clients.)

Use in your system landscape

Consist Software Solutions specializes in the operation and monitoring of complex IT systems. Performance monitoring is an elementary component of the services we offer - the reason for PerfoMon's existence.

• Performance analysis and consulting: For the targeted performance analysis of your IT systems, Consist Software Solutions can introduce PerfoMon, find weak spots, develop suitable solution concepts, and then implement them together with you.
• PerfoMon becomes a component of your system landscape: In order to take full advantage of PerfoMon, you integrate it permanently into your system and application landscape. Consist Software Solutions can offer you advice on the definition of metrics especially oriented towards your requirements, and can implement them together with you.