Sunday, October 12, 2008

Citrix Resource Management Services

With the rising dependence of applications running on server-based environments, more accurate monitoring tools are needed to measure application performance quality to give surety for user satisfaction. Tevron’s CitraTest VU offers a complete, revolutionary and cost effective Citrix load testing solutions designed especially for Terminal Server and Citrix enterprise users in the pre-and post deployment phases. CitraTest VU replicates real users and also measures the overall application response time based on real user loads. Before your application goes live, you now will be sure that maximum number of users that can be realistically supported through the use of CitraTest VU.

By using CitraTest VU load testing, tuning and application performance management solutions, companies can get a benefit from their Citrix hosted applications, and applications can be easily accessed via Citrix client, allowing them to deliver optimal performance to all users. CitraTest VU offers value by fulfilling multiple enterprise requirements and it is used for ongoing Service Level Agreement (SLA) testing, service level reporting and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) via CitraTest APM.

Tevron offers Citrix Resource Management Services for end to end server performance solutions to simplify the system installation, management, deployment and end user access across the enterprise. CitraTest VU product provides server farm application installation, Citrix capacity planning, Citrix monitoring and application reviews. Citrix resource management services providing real-time monitoring and management of application and system resources so it keeps terminal server performing at optimum levels. It captures relevant application information to assist IT professionals in capacity planning, application updates, and performance troubleshooting.

Additional functionality of Citrix Resource Manager

  • Real Time Monitoring - The monitored counters which are called Metrics in Citrix Resource Performance Manager. You can assign this into two steps warning and error. If these steps are hit Resource Manager then you can directly use some methods like SNMP, E-mail or SMS.

  • It can store the collected database for a long time. This makes it feasible to generate reports based on current and past activity.

  • Resource Manager having option to create billing crystal reports on self defined costs.

  • Besides the system counters, Citrix RM collect specific data like User activity, Application usage and Farm information.

Monday, September 15, 2008

End to End Application Performance - Why is it important?

End to end performance application management in any IT business is of utmost importance. A good performance tool helps the testing process and can be the smartest way of measuring performance in applications. Tevron’s Citratest APM provides End-to-End Response Time Monitoring, availability monitoring, SLA enforcement for every application across the organization. Being a top Citratest APM vendor; it includes solution to reduce the costs of IT troubleshooting, lost revenues, and lost end-user efficiency. End-to-end APM is the last stage of the project in an application monitoring cycle. It improves the performance of the system.

Nowadays all types of enterprises rely upon complex, multi-tier applications in order to successfully conduct IT service management and business service management. These types of high level security application are engaged across industries of banking, telecommunications, securities, government, financial applications, online trade, medical care and many more which having huge database. These applications require end-to-end monitoring and response time to ensure availability and performance testing.

End to End Performance Management
End-to-end performance testing can prevent unpleasant situations when the application is being tested in the production environment, and you also get an estimate of how many virtual users your environment is able to handle during your performance integration tests. End-to-end testing of performance of any server side or web based applications is a complex and time-consuming task. Tevron is a global software company that develops and delivers the most powerful and comprehensive suite of End To End performance and APM solutions.

  • Citratest APM integrates monitoring and business performance metrics into a single view that can be customized for application stakeholders.

  • End to end response time monitoring resolve the application performance problem quickly by looking into detailed user activity.

  • End user performance management quantifies the real end user experience relative to availability of the application and established the different services levels.

  • Citratest APM allows your technical administrator by typing infrastructure performance issues to end user functional activity.

Tevron’s Citratest APM delivers faster problem resolution, easier deployment and administration, as well as a complete performance management platform.

Friday, September 5, 2008

How to increase your application performance?

When it comes to determining the application performance and availability, there are three commonly observed metrics used by organizations worldwide: End to end performance management, Application availability and Monitoring tools. Therefore, it is important to know the application predominance for the end-user along with the response time.

The end to end performance monitoring tools help to tie up the end-user performance with IT infrastructure. The end-user transaction time allows network experts to analyze the behavior of applications, networks, and servers. The first step is to make strategic decisions, such as how to optimize the network, plan new infrastructure, and identify the severity and occurrence of problems.

End to End Performance

For example, end-to-end performance monitoring enables the network professionals to decide for the network optimization and application-acceleration technologies that are required the most.

End-to-end application response time monitoring with Tevron’s CitraTest APM delivers the best services to the end users and also provides the best overall view of what is happening on the network.

Through the deployment of CitraTest APM, IT Managers can actively monitor the End To End performance of every application that is accessible from Windows based PC including Thick Client, Citrix, Terminal Services, and all Web based applications. Most important is that the end to end performance metrics are based on the Real User Experience and not a replicated session. No other APM solution available in the market today offers support for every application through a single license solution.

It also monitors all the TCP application packets from the network and measures network round trip time, server response time, data transfer time, and much more.

The product uses a combination of hardware with embedded software to emulate networks of an IT infrastructure for application testing for application performance troubleshooting on live networks.