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Compuware links multiple collection methods, makes good showing in our APM review
THE FOURTH ENTRY IN OUR application performance management Rolling Review is Compuware's Vantage 10. In our APM kickoff, we explored the myriad options vendors provide to collect application performance information. No matter what data collection tack you take, Compuware is ready, offering several synthetic transaction, server, and application agents; remote agentless collection; and probe-based traffic-capture options.
While each version of Vantage-ServerVantage, NetworkVantage, and Client Vantage-can be implemented singly, we found that they integrate smoothly into the VantageView Web-based console. From this single view, you can configure reports and see alerts across all Vantage monitoring databases.
In fact, the best part of Vantage is its Vantage View central monitoring, alerting, and reporting capability. Through the Web-based GUI, we were able to define real-time monitoring and historical reports from across all collection mechanisms and assign them to specific roles and users. We also configured Compuware's concept of dashboards to roll up performance and availability alerts from each of the client, network, and server monitoring methods. We configured a couple of parent-child dashboards and links from them to reports we had created earlier. While this linking flexibility was powerful, we did believe that object placement and the look and feel of the dashboards were static in relation to the portal capabilities of some competitors.
The Vantage server is only supported on...