SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF COMPUTERS ON NETWORK

摘要

Performance on a networked system is monitored through five interlocking monitoring techniques. A network monitoring process (1) Causes pseudo messages to be sent from various points in the network and monitors the progress of the pseudo messages. A client-server monitoring process (2) monitors server availability and receives logs from various client-server processes and determines the performance of both server and server processes, which can be grouped by end-user location. A mainframe monitoring process (3) monitors the performance of the various hardware and software components on a mainframe. A reporting and administration process (4) compiles reports and makes them remotely available over the Internet. An e-business monitoring process (5) Monitors servers accessible to customers over the Internet by use of a Java applet which sends time stamps indicating access. The five processes are tied together through a central data repository, called a data mart.