Overview

AppSensor Xpert uses remote instrumentation interfaces (e.g., SNMP) to capture performance information from infrastructure components which may otherwise be difficult to access, including servers, application components, network devices, and vendor-specific management systems. AppSensor Xpert supplies this data (on both a historical and real-time basis) to the rest of OPNET’s APM solution suite for a more complete picture of end-to-end application performance.

Benefits

• Accelerate and automate application performance troubleshooting
• Expand visibility of APM without deploying agents

Use AppSensor Xpert to:

• Obtain live and historical performance metrics for infrastructure components, including network, servers, and storage systems.
• Analyze infrastructure performance as a potential root cause of end-user experience SLA violations.
• Enrich the application dependency map in AppMapper Xpert.
• Troubleshoot the path of an application through the network.

Key AppSensor Xpert Features

• Automatically discovers and monitors infrastructure components
• Agentless data collection minimizes overhead
• Provides AppResponse Xpert with server and network element metrics
• Analyze metrics for CPU, memory, processes, network interfaces, and more
• Discovers the network devices (layer 2/3) on the application’s path and obtains their performance metrics.
• Leverages Cisco IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA) data to proactively monitor application infrastructure
• Custom alerts for key devices in your application infrastructure
• Collects detailed structural and performance information from VMware vSphere

Compare AppSensor Xpert to other solutions

• Tightly integrated with other APM solutions in order to broaden and enrich performance visibility.
• Uses the industry’s most advanced network discovery engine to provide accurate application path analysis through the network at layers 2 and 3.
• Installs easily and provides rapid ROI.

Integrations

• Integrates with AppResponse Xpert to investigate infrastructure-related causes of poor application responsiveness.
• Integrates with AppMapper Xpert by providing detailed information about application components and relationships. AppMapper Xpert automatically creates a run-time application dependency map.