On 1 February, Compuware will release the next version of its application resource-monitoring tool EcoSCOPE 4.1. The product is fully compatible with the Remote Monitoring standard and boasts a new Web-based reporting engine.
EcoSCOPE passively monitors every packet of information that moves over any of the networks used in enterprises. This gives network administrators accurate knowledge of exactly what is going on in their systems, and which applications are doing what over the network.
"Although it`s easy to point to the network as the cause of application performance issues, a growing need exists to understand how applications and the network actually interact," noted a recent GartnerGroup report. "Don`t just throw bandwidth at the problem," says Angus Peacey, sales director of Enterprise Networks at Lucent SA, "find the problem and fix it."
EcoSCOPE is an application analysis tool, which fits into a suite of Compuware Eco-products that analyse the ecology of a company`s computer systems. They are called "eco" because Compuware seems to believe that networked systems are like ecologies where every part is an intrinsic part of the whole and a small change in one can make a big difference to the operation of the whole.
The new version of EcoSCOPE adds many new reporting capabilities, as well as the ability to generate and view the reports in HTML. A new Web-based reporting console gives user-profiled access from anywhere on the Internet. The way the reporter works is that an application, or group of applications, is assigned a baseline response-time and baseline availability level, and a scorecard is then generated.
A report database is then created on an SQL server, and every communication of an application is logged for the baseline criteria against time. This information can be presented in a report in virtually any way. A wizard guides users through the set-up of any new report, which is then saved to their profile for reuse. The bottom-line is that pre-emptive management can take place as the product tests for the saleability of the network as a whole.
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