Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse Director
Real-time application performance monitoring based on actual end-user experience

Add-on Modules:

A variety of optional modules provide specialized analysis capabilities, including:

Deep network intelligence

AppResponse Shark module adds rich network intelligence to supplement the existing enduser experience monitoring and transaction analysis provided by Riverbed AppResponse. It speeds troubleshooting with streamlined workflows and deeper network insight, letting you get to the right level of information needed to solve problems quickly and easily

Per-user Citrix transaction analysis

CX-Tracer module provides unprecedented end-to-end visibility into Citrix XenApp user transactions, enabling you to quickly pinpoint the root cause of Citrix performance problems. CX-Tracer automatically correlates front-end user sessions to their back-end counterparts, enabling end-to-end analysis of individual Citrix XenApp user sessions to quickly determine why performance is slow and whether the problem originates with the client, network, server, or application.

Database transaction analysis

Database performance module identifies the impact of the database on end-to-end application performance. By monitoring database performance at the transaction level, you can identify the particular SQL statement or database call responsible for application delay and equip yourdatabase team with actionable information. Its agentless approach introduces zero overhead on database operationand does not require privileged access to database systems or database diagnostics logging.

VoIP and video quality monitoring

Unified communications module monitors and reports on live VoIP and video call quality, enabling you to proactively manage the performance and user experience for a broad range of VoIP and video services for enterprise and call center environments. Proactively resolve communication issues by monitoring IP voice, video, and data traffic side-by-side to determine how application services are being delivered and compete for common resources.

Key Features:

End-user experience monitoring

• Monitor end-user experience for all users, all applications, all the time
• Geographic heat map displays end-user experience for Web apps and page views
• Its agent-less approach introduces zero overhead
• Break down application response time into contributing sources of delay
• Monitor and analyze performance of web applications at the page level

Support for large- scale deployments

• Supports up to one million connections through an intelligent and scale-as-you-grow performance architecture
• Improves ROI by increasing throughput and number of connections in a single box by 50 percent

Application visibility

• Automatically discover applications
• Track performance by application, user, transactions, business division, and location
• Measure performance of VoIP calls while they are in progress, including Microsoft Lync VoIP
• Monitor and troubleshoot high- definition video quality, such as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Tandberg, and Polycom telepresence systems

Transaction analysis

• Report web application performance for all individual transactions
• Trace user transactions over Citrix XenApp servers for end-to-end visibility
• Monitor performance of database transactions, pinpointing specific SQL statements responsible for application delays
• Supports Oracle, SQL Server, DB2/UDB, Teradata, Sybase ASE, and Informix databases

Network analysis

• Network traffic monitoring
• Troubleshoot DNS and network-layer issues
• Troubleshoot quality of service (QoS) issues and DHCP
• Monitor microburst activity and alert with microsecond granularity
• Support for IPv6

Web console

• Out-of-the-box Quick Views
• Flexible, user-defined, custom views

Miscellaneous

• One-minute resolution for aggregated performance statistics is more precise than the typical 5- and 15-minute collection intervals
• Stores performance and forensic data in large capacity, long-term storage for sub-sequent troubleshooting, trending, and capacity planning
• Alert against SLA violations using dynamic thresholds that automatically adjust limits based on historical performance
• Seamlessly drill down from dashboards to details for fast root cause analysis
• Export flow data to Riverbed Cascade Profiler for end-to-end network monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting

Deployment and customization

• Flexible deployment options include both hardware and virtual appliances
• Diverse family of appliances supports a broad range of
• throughput and storage requirements
• Virtual appliances restore visibility of traffic between virtual machines within a server
• Dashboards and reports are easily customizable to provide application- specific, intuitive screens and workflows adapted to your needs

Project Integration:

• Cascade Profiler application-aware network management solution provides enterprise-wide reporting and analysis, combining data from Cascade Gateway, Cascade Shark, SteelHead, and Riverbed AppResponse appliances, as well as virtual solutions into a single, integrated view.
• Cascade Pilot packet analysis software uses an intuitive, graphical user interface to help you work faster by rapidly isolating the specific packets needed to diagnose and troubleshoot complex performance issues. It enables you to quickly analyze multi-terabyte packet recordings on remote Riverbed AppResponse appliances without having to transfer large packet capture files across the network. Because Cascade Pilot uses indexing to speed analysis, it can quickly dissect large trace files to focus on specific transactions for multi-tier user transaction analysis and performance prediction in Riverbed AppTransaction.
• Riverbed AppTransaction oftware provides detailed analysis of multi-tier application transactions. Using code-level and network-level forensic data from Riverbed AppResponse and other sources, it builds a detailed transaction model for root-case analysis and predictive studies.
• Riverbed AppMapper software automatically discovers application and infrastructure relationships to create a runtime application dependency map. It leverages the instrumentation from Riverbed AppResponse and other Riverbed solutions to build a comprehensive model of the application ecosystem.
• Riverbed AppResponse BrowserMetrix software utilizes JavaScript instrumentation to measure actual end-user experience for web applications.
• Riverbed AppSensor software provides broad infrastructure monitoring for a more complete picture of the application’s operating environment. It uses remote instrumentation interfaces to capture performance information from servers, application components, the application delivery network, and vendor-specific management systems.
• Riverbed AppInternals software traces user transactions through the application and provides deep monitoring for the individual components.

Specifications:

¹ Raw Disk Capacity does not not take into account disk formatting, RAID overhead, software installation, or OS usage

² Hotswap not available

³ Any platform that supports VMware Workstation 9.0.2 or higher. The host system must be 64-bit. ⁴ Intel’s VT-x or AMD’s AMD-V virtualization technology is required. VT must be enabled in BIOS in addition to being supported on the processor.

Documentation:

Download the Riverbed SteelCentral Performance Management Brochure (.PDF)

Download the Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse Spec Sheet (.PDF)

Download the Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse Datasheet (.PDF)