SevOne collects data using a range of out-of-the-box plug-ins. Years of honing its federated database schema have made internal plug-in development process easy — support for new methods of statistic collection can be added faster than anyone in the market. SevOne appliances support all plug-in types by default, including:
SNMP
The SNMP plug-in is built for speed and flexibility, and uses a series of templates across device types that define what is to be polled and how the information is to be analyzed and presented. These templates permit new device types that support standard MIBs to be monitored right away upon introduction.Importing definitions for new MIBs and objects is easily done in minutes using SevOne's SNMP Object Editor. With an easy-to-use interface, even the most complex and proprietary MIBs can be easily configured.
With the SevOne SNMP Plug-in, you can:
Set up new monitors with a few mouse clicks.
Pinpoint issues related to quality of service (QoS) quickly.
Drill down on network performance problems easily to isolate the root of performance issues.
NetFlow
VM Monitoring
The SevOne VM monitoring plug-in and VM Browser use the VMware vSphere API to dynamically discover the ESX hosts associated with a vCenter. Users can view and select the host devices and their guest VM objects for monitoring, and new hosts are automatically discovered as they are added to a vCenter. Key performance indicators are then collected from vCenter and the ESX servers.
With SevOne VM Plug-in, you can:
Leverage vSphere API integration to auto-discover and collect metrics from vCenter and ESX host servers.
Support multiple vCenters for a global view of your entire virtual infrastructure or across multiple tenants.
Maintain the performance history of VM metrics with vMotion support when moved.
WMI
The SevOne WMI Plug-in supports the collection and reporting of key performance indicators via the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) for Windows, server applications.
With the SevOne WMI Plug-in, you can:
Monitor the performance of Microsoft server applications, including Exchange, Active Directory, IIS and SharePoint.
Server Process
The SevOne Server Process Plug-in monitors server CPU, memory and the number of instances for each process. SevOne alerts you when a process stops running or uses too much CPU or memory.
With the SevOne Server Process Plug-in, you can:
Diagnose which process running on the server has the highest utilization.
Easily report on which process consumes the most resources on the server.
HTTP
The SevOne HTTP Plug-in can automatically query web pages to determine if they respond appropriately. Results are stored over time, and are analyzed to calculate baselines and create proactive alerting thresholds.
With the SevOne HTTP Plug-in, you can:
Quickly see page response speed, the amount of data transferred, and whether the page responded with error messages.
Monitor key elements to create the reports necessary for assessing slow application response time.
Quickly determine whether degradation or failure is due to the network or to supporting web servers.
JMX
The SevOne JMX Plug-in supports the monitoring of Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) applications and infrastructure via the JMX (Java Management Extensions) API. Any key performance indicator exposed by the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) or by a Java application can be monitored by selecting it from a GUI-based configuration screen.
With the SevOne JMX Plug-in, you can:
Visualize common JMX or MBean indicators, such as per-component transaction rates, per-thread memory and CPU utilization, and thread and connection pool utilization.
Ensure the correct operation of large, multi-tier Java platforms, such as Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Red Hat JBoss, SAP and many others.
IP Telephony (VoIP)
DNS
The SevOne DNS Plug-in allows you to execute queries to DNS services regularly and to monitor DNS and its response times easily.
With the SevOne DNS Plug-in, you can:
Gain immediate visibility to determine whether issues are in the network or are due to poor DNS performance.
Proxy Ping and ICMP
The SevOne Proxy Ping and ICMP Plug-ins allow SevOne to measure response time from an end user perspective by simulating transactions on the network from any network device to another on the network. By defining the type of packet and the destination device, these response time tests deliver valuable data to ensure that the network is delivering the data your users need to do their jobs.
With SevOne Proxy Ping and ICMP Plug-ins, you can:
Measure network performance.
Develop baseline values over time.
Be alerted when the responses fall outside acceptable performance levels.
IP SLA
Using Cisco's IP SLA network technology, SevOne can create and graph synthetic, active measurements of end-to-end network performance between any two points on the network. This capability lets you validate network performance as measured by latency, jitter, packet loss and throughput, independent of the devices that transmit network traffic.
With SevOne IP SLA Plug-in, you can:
Gather traffic statistics that cannot be observed externally.
Validate the performance of independent devices that transmit network traffic.
Analyze the end user quality of experience (QoE).
Create thresholds and get insight hop-by-hop to isolate problems for true end-to-end performance measurement.
NBAR
NBAR (Network-Based Application Recognition) analyzes application traffic patterns in real time and discovers which applications are running on the network without using NetFlow. Using NBAR, you can discover what applications are running on the network and monitor their resource consumption, all with minimal impact and network overhead. This capability helps you classify voice and data traffic, and assists you in setting priority policies for traffic. You can set thresholds on individual protocols for a device, and receive alerts when they go beyond the set threshold.
With SevOne NBAR Plug-in, you can:
Track applications running on the network and their resource consumption.
Set thresholds for individual protocols on an interface.
Easily classify voice and video traffic.
Police anomalous traffic.
Port Shaker
SevOne's Port Shaker plug-in connects to and monitors server application response time on any designated TCP port.
With SevOne Port Shaker Plug-in you can:
Ensure application availability, and better understand response time baselines.
Be proactively alerted about degraded application performance before it can affect users.
xStats™
The SevOne xStats™ Plug-in acquires bulk performance statics from SevOne xStats™ adapters. These xStats adapters integrate with 3rd party probes and EMS (element management systems) from network equipment vendors that provide management functions for LTE, IMS and Ethernet backhaul components in networks.
With SevOne xStats Plug-in, you can:
Avoid the overhead of directly polling or collecting performance data from individual network elements.
Reduce the overhead of additions, moves, and changes as the number of network elements grows.
Ensure visibility by collecting performance data from non-pollable elements when direct device communication is undesirable.
Third Party Deferred Data
SevOne can import data from application agents or other third party data source tools to include them in SevOne reports and instant graphs. By using the SevOne API, systems integrators and customers can import performance statistics or other "deferred data" objects. Once imported, this third party data can be trended, baselined and monitored like all other polled data in SevOne.
With SevOne Third Party Deferred Data, you can:
Avoid the overhead of directly polling or collecting performance data from individual network elements.
Reduce the overhead of additions, moves, and changes as the number of network elements grows.
Leverage the powerful performance management capabilities of SevOne for non-pollable elements.
SevOne continues to add new plug-in types as part of our All-in-One approach to performance management.
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