Fluke Networks’ Visual Performance Manager product has always provided some pretty good eye candy for network operations personnel, but the latest release of the product today puts extra speed behind the root cause analysis behind its great visuals.
Visual Performance Manager 4.0 quickly pinpoints the root cause of networked application performance issues with a new high-end application performance solution and a patented software analytics engine. The application performance component identifies suspect application performance and determines root cause using individual client/application response metrics and reduces mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) of multi-tier applications by visibly time-correlating the transactions of the multiple tiers. Key to the enhanced performance is a custom data acquisition card that is vastly more efficient at analyzing relevant traffic information.
Forrester senior analyst Evelyn Hubbert said as early as last year that infrastructure availability and utilization are no longer good indicators of network health. The network management team needs to shift from fault- to performance-based management. “This will allow network professionals to become more visible and relevant to their business customers, as they are able to provide excellent service delivery to the business in transporting data from one end of the system to the other end as fast as possible,” she said.
Visual Performance Manager 4.0 also allows IT departments to focus their limited resources on resolving the most critical issues through the use of a new intelligent alarm view which "learns" [performance patterns] based on real-world data. The alarm information is presented as a single, unified view from data sources such as Visual Performance Manager Analysis Service Elements (ASEs) and the Application Performance Appliance.
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