Archive for December, 2005

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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Fuss on being agentless

What’s the big deal about being an agentless monitoring solution? Well one our customers said it very well in a recent conversation I had with him. Simply put, you do not need to hire extra personnel to maintain agents for your monitoring solution itself! And you still get what you need.
I agree […]

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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Escalating alerts

Some of the Applications Manager customers prefer to get a single alert when a server and all monitors on the server are down. That means, when my server itself is down, donot send me server + no. of monitors being monitored on the server number of down alerts. This could be annoying especially when you […]

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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

monitor web transactions

In an earlier blog I mentioned how Web transactions could be recorded and played back. There is another interesting feature added in AM. It helps you analyse the performance of real transactions and also gives a break up of the performance of various components in a J2EE environment.
We could figure out some of […]

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Friday, December 23rd, 2005

BEA JRockit

BEA JRockit JVM has some new features that could help tune Java applications. With JRockit Mission Control tracing in production applications is possible with least overhead on the application. It even talks of being able to turn off completely all overhead on the application at runtime caused due to this monitoring. […]

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Monday, December 19th, 2005

User contributed Scripts

We had a nice user contributed script from Jeff of Pobox.com. The PHP script when executed sends by email the details of what each thread of MySQL is doing at that point of time.
This is very encouraging for us. We love seeing customers tweaking and playing around with the flexibility provided by Applications […]

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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

.NET & J2EE

Wondering what’s cooking in Applications Manager (AM) front?
Well those who run both Microsoft .NET and J2EE app servers have something to cheer about ! In the next service pack of AM just a week away, you should be able to monitor both from a single console. Last weekend the team had a tough time […]

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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

QA and Scalability Testing

Last week I had to find out some scalability stats of Applications Manager (AM). My main concern was to find out whether the database or the Java application was the bottleneck.
The application to be tested was running on RH Linux and the applications being monitored were setup on a Solaris 5.8 with […]

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Thursday, December 8th, 2005

JBoss adds transaction engine to JEMS

JBoss has acquired distributed transaction monitor and web services software from Arjuna Technologies.
JBoss is open sourcing ArjunaTS and Arjuna’s Web Services Transaction implementation in their JEMS offerings. Like all JEMS products, these offerings will run independently as free-standing products or on any J2EE application server.
I know atleast a few would be wondering […]

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