Debu Panda

BMC Application Diagnostics is the next generation application deep dive monitoring solution that helps users to proactively diagnose application transaction issues such as slow and failed transactions. BMC Application Diagnostics combined with BMC End User Experience Management provides an end-to-end application performance management solution that helps diagnose application issues. The solution will trace from a real end-user to the application method.  In this blog, I will how discuss you can you get started with BMC Application Diagnostics.       Understanding Architecture and Components   The following figure shows the integrated architecture of BMC’s Application Performance Management (APM) solution.     The following are important components of BMC Application Diagnostics Application Diagnostics Server contains Portal and Server components that can be ... (more)

Getting Started with BMC Application Diagnostics

Introduction   BMC Application Diagnostics is the next generation application deep dive monitoring solution that helps users to proactively diagnose application transaction issues such as slow and failed transactions. BMC Application Diagnostics combined with BMC End User Experience Management provides an end-to-end application performance management solution that helps diagnose application issues. The solution will trace from a real end-user to the application method.  In this blog, I will how discuss you can you get started with BMC Application Diagnostics.       Understa... (more)

Transaction tracing vs. Deep-dive Monitoring

I spoke to a few customers last week about Application Performance Management (APM) and many of them are still confused about the different functionalities offered by APM products, such as transaction tracing and deep-dive monitoring. I will use screens shots from BMC Application Diagnostics as illustrations.   Most of today’s applications are multi-tiered and involve a multitude of systems such as application servers, databases, messaging systems or external web services.  Consider the following example of a transaction where a user bids for a product offered in an auction sit... (more)

What Customers expect in a new generation APM (2.0) solution

In the last blog, I discussed the challenges with an APM 1.0 solution.    As an application owner or application support personnel, you want to Exceed service levels and avoid costly, reputation-damaging application failures through improved visibility into the end-user experienceEnsure reliable, high-performing applications by detecting problems faster and prioritizing issues based on service levels and impacted usersImprove time to market with new applications, features, and technologies, such as virtualization, acceleration, and cloud-based services   The APM 2.0 products enab... (more)

Managing Complexity Within a BPEL Environment

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become mainstream technology for integrating disparate systems and applications. For building composite applications, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as the standard for business process flow orchestration and application integration within organizations. Many IT organizations are deploying composite applications that use BPEL to automate critical business processes. If your application needs to be available 24/7, you need a reliable BPEL infrastructure. In this article, we first present a typical BPEL engine archit... (more)