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Transaction Monitoring & Reporting
Transaction Protocols
The Longitude® Transaction solution performs user-defined
operations on infrastructure software to determine its health
and responsiveness. You can define SLAs for your transactions
in the Manage SLAs function. Longitude also provides pre-configured,
on-demand reports and graphs of key performance metrics to
help you proactively take action and ensure maximum availability.
Heroix Longitude monitors the following transaction
protocols:
- DNS - The DNS protocol enables you to test whether a DNS
server can resolve the IP address of a fully qualified host
name.
- FileContent - The FileContent transaction enables you
to check a file for undesired content, such as an error
message recorded in a log file.
- FileExistence - The FileExistence transaction enables
you to monitor for the existence or absence of a file.
- FTP - The FTP protocol enables you to test whether a user
can connect to an FTP server.
- HTTP (HTTPConnect, HTTPUrl) - The HTTP protocol enables
you to test whether Longitude can connect to an HTTP site,
and whether the text on a web page matches the expected
content.
- NNTP - The NNTP protocol enables you to test whether an
NNTP server is accessible.
- Ping (Ping, PingCritical) - The Ping protocol enables
you to test for a reply from a ping – different tests are
available for different levels of criticality.
- Port - The Port protocol enables you to test whether a
connection can be made to a port.
- Process (UnixProcess, WinProcess) - The Process protocol
enables you to test whether a particular process exists,
with different tests tailored for Unix/Linux and Windows
processes.
- Script (UnixScript, WinScript) - The UnixScript and WinScript
transactions enable you to monitor the output of a script.
- Service - The Service protocol enables you to test whether
a particular service is running.
- SMTP - The SMTP protocol enables you to test whether a
connection can be made to an SMTP server.
- SQL (SQLConnect, SQLQuery) - The SQL protocol enables
you to test whether a connection can be made to a SQL server,
and whether a SQL query completes successfully.
- SSH / UnixConnect - The SSH protocol enables you to test
whether an SSH connection can be made to a server; on Unix/Linux,
the test can be made for SSH or Rexec, and the connection
can be made using public-key authentication, if desired.
- Telnet - The Telnet protocol enables you to test whether
a Telnet connection can be made to a server.
- WinShare - The WinShare transaction enables you to test
whether a Windows share exists.
- WmiConnect - The WmiConnect protocol enables you to test
whether Longitude can connect to WMI on a computer.
About Longitude
With Longitude you get the best of both worlds –
agentless software that’s not only affordable and easy to
install and use, but gives you the kind of comprehensive
application and server performance monitoring that you’d
expect from high end agent-based software. Longitude monitors
hundreds of vital performance metrics, alerts you to problems,
takes
any corrective actions you specify, and generates reports and graphs that demonstrate just how
well your operating system, databases, web servers, messaging,
and J2EE applications are performing. Best of all, everything
is presented in dashboard views that let you drill down to
investigate problems and find answers fast.
In keeping with its robust functionality, Heroix Longitude
scales with ease. It’s equally adept at monitoring a few
servers or many. And unlike some other agentless solutions,
Longitude is totally self-contained with no prerequisites for
layered software. You won’t have to install extra software,
nor will you get stung by unexpected costs such as additional
database, report writer, and runtime license fees. In most
cases, Longitude can be deployed in about 15 minutes!
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