Determining the stability of Internet and web applications is the single most important thing organizations can do to ensure end user satisfaction. The Argent Defender enables customers to measure the amount of "bend" available before the "break" by providing web site stress testing, capacity planning and performance observation in a single solution. The Argent Defender also simulates complete traffic flow by playing back scripts to find and correct performance issues.
The Argent Defender is a stress testing and analysis solution that predicts the reliability and load bearing capabilities of websites and intranet applications in testing and after the applications go live. The Argent Defender alerts customers through the Argent Console if the intranet or web application suffers performance issues.
Application Performance Management:Key Features And Benefits
The Argent Defender: Website And Intranet Load Testing And Analysis
Companies are faced with a daunting task in today's tight economy deliver web and intranet applications in a timely manner and under budget, and, at the same time, deliver a reliable solution.
Customers will not accept poor performance or reliability. Companies need to ensure that these applications are fully tested and analyzed prior to deployment. The emulation of thousands of end users allows companies to see what will happen before the end user does.
The Argent Defender sends alerts if a website or intranet application slows below pre-defined thresholds via the Argent Console. Stress testing, capacity planning and performance monitoring all in one solution.
Performance Management Systems: How The Argent Defender Works
The first phase of using the Argent Defender is to record a session. This session acts as the basic template that is used to drive the second phase, which is the actual stress testing of the website or intranet application. Any number of sessions can be recorded with the Argent Defender.
In the second test phase, between any number of regional agents load the website or intranet application with complete transactions the website or intranet application cannot tell it is not a real human user. Individual transactions vary in the number of screens, and the pauses between screens. The Argent Defender has the concept of personalities, whereby the rate at which information is entered on the screens can be varied, to precisely mimic different types of users.
The Argent Defender tests a website or intranet application with an unlimited number of real transactions from one or more agents. These agents can be located in the same server room, or can be located across the world. The test is coordinated and monitored from a central control server that prepares and manages the agents. The Argent Defender is essential for effective capacity planning.
Once a website or intranet application is put into full production, the Argent Defender can be used in its second role, that of monitoring the on-going performance of the website or intranet application. In this role, instead of stress testing the pre-production website or intranet application with thousands of complete transactions every minute, one or two transactions are executed per minute and the page-to-page, as well as the overall response times are monitored.
If any variable exceeds pre-defined thresholds, alerts are executed using Argent's powerful monitoring and alerting backbone, the Argent Console. Thus the full power of the Argent Console's alerting capabilities ensures all production websites and intranet applications meet Service Level Agreement requirements.