Easily attain full visibility into your SOA environment with virtually no network overhead.
Managed Methods Inc. today introduces a truly agentless deployment option for gaining complete management visibility into SOA environments by passively sniffing on the network.
Generally, in order to enable performance reporting, fault management, usage metering and SLA management in their SOA environments, companies had to either install agents on the application servers or deploy intermediaries as proxies. The agents become part of the handler chain in J2EE environments or .NET Extensions in .NET environments in order to access the message flow between the service consumers and providers. Where the management tool is deployed as an intermediary or a gateway, messages between clients and providers are brokered by the intermediary.
Both options have their costs. Installation of agents is usually very time consuming not only in having to install the agents but also in time required to modify configuration files on the application server hosting the Web services. There is also an increase in network traffic as the agents have to forward message data to the management server for processing. The use of gateway intermediaries often requires modification of client code to redirect the requests to the gateway. This architecture also can introduce latency into overall service performance due to the processing performed by the intermediary.
Although JaxView can be deployed either as a gateway or with agents, it now can be deployed as a network appliance to auto-discover the web services and passively capture SOAP message packets from the network. This has the least amount of network overhead, adding no latency to the message flow and adding no increase in network traffic as is the case with agent-based deployments. This option can provide visibility for both SSL and non-SSL encrypted service traffic allowing for increased deployment flexibility in secured environments. An additional advantage of this option is that it can usually be fully operational in less than a day, making JaxView a truly cost-effective choice for SOA management.
Each JaxView deployment enables visibility into the performance and operation of SOA environments including:
- Service performance metrics
- Operation throughput
- Fault message management
- SLA management metrics
- Metering
- Client usage
- Client access monitoring
- Message auditing
- Metric baselining and trend analysis.
All JaxView deployment options provide comprehensive alerting and reporting.
Please visit us at Sys-Con SOA World 2007 in NY for more info or visit our Web site to download a trial copy of JaxView at http://www.managedmethods.com
About Managed Methods
Managed Methods is a Web services management and SOA runtime governance company that is focused on the needs of IT operation. Our JaxView products are easily installed and integrated into SOA environments. We have used our numerous years of system management experience to build a product that fits the fast pace and rapid implementation requirements of operations environment. Every aspect of JaxView from integration, metric engine, alerting, data persistent, and aggregation is customizable. It is easily installed and implemented with very low signature. No matter what stage of SOA implementation you are JaxView can help you monitor, manage, and secure your Web services.
