Managing change in your IT environment can be challenging, especially for keeping pace with evolving business demands and IT environments. CA Application Performance Management Healthcheck (CA APM Healthcheck) assesses the current state of your IT environment in order to identify opportunities for improved performance and effectiveness.
CA APM Healthcheck delivers recommendations to enhance the value of your investment through process and technology improvements.
IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to deliver more services at a faster rate while providing a flawless end-user experience. Composite applications span environments, increasing the importance for IT organizations to strive for optimal performance, provide the quality experience that end users demand and reduce complexity. IT organizations are challenged to:
The CA APM Healthcheck service is a detailed diagnostic engagement that evaluates the current state of deployed CA APM products and the underlying infrastructure. CA APM Healthcheck focuses in detail on technical vitality, as well as related procedures that may contribute to platform instability.
This service reviews the current state of the deployed CA APM products and recommends specific technical remediation and optimization activities. This activity is especially beneficial if the performance or stability of APM products are of concern or in anticipation of an upgrade or with the introduction of new workload.
CA APM Healthcheck includes assessment of the following:
CA APM Healthcheck reviews an existing CA APM Cluster to verify that it is meeting performance and stability goals. Generally, the health check reviews the operating characteristics and established KPIs and collects summary views at six hours and at 30-day historical ranges to document trends and recent abnormal or undesirable behaviors. Once individual enterprise managers are evaluated in isolation, failover events are documented and each collector is placed in contrast with each other. Agent configurations are overviewed, searching for excessive metrics and a summary of the nature of the agent configuration is completed.
The CA APM Healthcheck Report is prepared, with a presentation that includes:
– Its correct or abnormal operation, including number of agents managed, number of historical metrics encountered, number of workstation users and overall trend of usage
– Details of the hardware platform hosting the various enterprise manager instances
There are two delivery options available: