SOA Management: The Problem with Using Traditional System Management Tools for SOA Applications

While Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes possible the creation of rich, composite applications, it has introduced new complexities in managing the operation of these dynamic systems, which decrease the business benefits potential of SOA. Because traditional systems management tools approach the problem from either a server or network centric view they do not have the fine grain visibility into the composite SOA application to be able to proactively pinpoint the performance problems in the business process context. Each part of the overall system can appear healthy while individual user transactions can be suffering: these tools simply become a set of diagnostics to be used in after-the-fact trouble shooting. Management of the new enterprise applications requires a greater level of insight through consolidation and visualization of a large amount of complex information.

The Solution is Tidal™ Intersperse, Which Simplifies Management, Measurement and Analysis of SOA Application Performance.

Tidal Intersperse is a comprehensive solution for SOA monitoring and SOA management for Java and .NET frameworks. In contrast to traditional systems management tools, Tidal Intersperse combines the runtime monitoring across multiple application servers to create detailed end-to-end transaction monitoring within a single tool, enabling proactive detection of problems, fast root cause analysis, and provide for recovery to create self-healing solutions for SOA deployments.

Tidal Intersperse’s range of capabilities include rapid discovery of servers and application components, performance monitoring at both the component (detailed) and web service (message payload) levels, performance analysis and notification through detailed reporting and composite SLA management, and control for automating corrective action to create self-healing solutions.

Tidal Intersperse is different because it utilizes standard Java Management Extensions (JMX) for all its monitoring information, making it a non-invasive, low overhead solution. Intersperse has a distributed architecture based on SOA and moves the overhead of complex processing, such as transaction tracing, composite SLA management, and correlation and context analysis off the managed application server and into the Intersperse management server. Additionally, unlike older generation runtime monitoring solutions that can require a shutdown / restart cycle to turn on detailed SOA monitoring or respond to changes or updates made to the SOA environment, the non-invasive architecture of Intersperse allows operators to add instrumentation “on-the-fly”, zooming in on performance detail with zero down-time.

Tidal Intersperse not only supports .NET framework based applications but it also supports Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Redhat JBoss, and SAP NetWeaver.

Learn more about how Tidal Intersperse can help with:

• SOA Management and SOA Monitoring
• .NET Management and .NET Monitoring
• Java Management and Java Monitoring
• BEA WebLogic Management and BEA WebLogic Monitoring
• IBM WebSphere Management and IBM WebSphere Monitoring
• Redhat JBOSS Management and Redhat JBOSS Monitoring
• SAP NetWeaver Management and SAP Netweaver Monitoring
• Apache Management and Apache Monitoring
• Tomcat Management and Tomcat Monitoring

Learn more about how Tidal Intersperse™ can help your organization.