This article provides some pointers on when to use agents or agentless approach for monitoring, and where one fits better than the other.

While monitoring your IT environment using HP SiteScope, wouldn’t it be great to see all your monitors in one view.
You might also want to see monitors grouped in different ways, instead of in the standard SiteScope hierarchical view.

And what about being able to view SiteScope on a tablet or on a large screen…

Synthetic transaction monitoring is often the preferred method of assessing application availability and performance, especially when applications such as third-party apps cannot be instrumented. Synthetic transaction monitoring can continuously test the systems that support critical online business flows on web and mobile applications, predicting availability and performance even before there is traffic on them. Here’s what you need to know to ramp up synthetic transaction monitoring.

By Yair Horovitz, Chief Functional Architect – Performance Anywhere & Analytics

We released HP Performance Anywhere in March to a lot of excitement and fanfare. This revolutionary Monitoring-as-a-Service offering monitors applications across web, mobile, and cloud environments.

We have collaborated with research firm TechValidate to find out what our customers really think of Performance Anywhere. Keep reading to find out the results of the survey.

by Chris Byrd, HP Diagnostics Architect

When an application begins to demonstrate performance issues, how do you get the right kind of information you need to quickly remediate the problem? This blog post demonstrates how an application owner can use HP Diagnostics as part of Performance Anywhere to drill into code-level detail and quickly isolate issues.

Today HP introduced a new offering, HP SiteScope version 11.22, which gives you further enhancements in agentless application monitoring software solution that is easy to install, configure and use to provide quick time to value. 

As DevOps gains momentum in the industry, it is taking on various interpretations and approaches. This blog is based on HP’s research and industry experience. It will propose a maturity model for DevOps, evaluate the key success factors and their evolution. Application owners, development teams and IT operations personnel who are looking to adopt DevOps or mature their DevOps practices, will be able to learn the DevOps landscape, assess their current position and work out their evolution path.

The IT industry is undergoing some radical changes today. Mobility, big data and cloud computing have changed the marketplace as a whole. Customers have high expectations and if IT doesn’t meet them, the corporate reputation may be at stake.

Continue reading to find out how you can meet customer demands and increase the cooperation between your teams.

Guest post by Fabio Sartori,

BSM Products Offerings Manager, HP Software as a Service

How well do your various stakeholders work together? Can they easily see into each other’s systems to uncover any problems? Do they play “The Blame Game” when issues arise?

Continue reading to find out how HP Performance Anywhere can revolutionize your environment and how you’re your teammates operate.

Written by Liat Snitovsky
Performance Anywhere | Product Manager
HP Software

Read up on this article to understand what the 3 virtualization monitoring products from HP's Operations Management portfolio offer. Learn who uses these products, and in what role.

Competing in a race car is a lot like competeing in your business. If you don’t have all the right mechanisms in place and if they aren’t running correctly, you will lose the race. It is the job of your head mechanic to make sure everything is operational.

Application performance management (APM) is part of the mechanic's toolkit; it monitors and manage the performance and availability of your software applications.  Now you have the opportunity to supercharge your business.

Keep reading to find out how HP Performance Anywhere can power your business. 

Your customer is your most important asset. But do you truly know the experience they receive on your website? If your site takes more than 2 seconds to load you are losing business and clientele—and you may never see them again.

Come watch this video to find out how easy it can be to maintain your expected levels of service.

How is visual analytics being used in various industries including IT, to help drive business and technical decisions?

How can visual analytics help to make a seemingly complex job a simple thing to do?

How does vPV use the principles of visual analytics in helping make the job of a vAdmin easier?

Check out other products in the virtualization monitoring space which use the tree-map representation to help make monitoring and problem/pattern identification easier for the vAdmins.

Find answers to these questions in this tech blog - which might be an eye-opener for some of you on the stated topics. Also provides link to a cool mp4 video - don't miss to watch the video.

By Petri Maanonen:  This blog will present a real-life example of using HP LoadRunner and Diagnostics to find the method level bottleneck in a slow end user transaction during pre-production. Customers can use similar Diagnostics capability in production environment, when they are analyzing the application performance bottlenecks and root causes to poor application performance. This info can be channeled back to the development organization so that the application performance issues identified in production can be quickly addressed in a patch or new application version. This type of detail level info sharing on performance issues and collaboration to remedy them, will improve the application performance management at any customer organization.

Businesses are increasing their reliance on mobile- and web-based solutions—industries today are dependent on them.  New tools that assure optimum end users experiences are mission critical.. Ideally, these tools provide proactive application monitoring and isolation of performance issues before the end-user is even aware of a problem.

Keep reading to find out how these tools can offer you the “ounce of prevention” you are looking for. 

Do you know what apps are hogging your network? The HP Network Flow Analytics is a free lightweight and flexible utility that provides a web-based console for viewing application and router traffic data in easy-to-understand Treemaps. This blog post will take you through how you can use Network Flow Analytics to more accurately understand the traffic patterns of your enterprise network.

By Udi Shagal, Analytics product manager, and Eran Samuni, Analytics R&D Manager — HP Performance Anywhere

Identifying anomalies and qualifying probable causes is an important process that leads to faster resolution and better performance. In this blog post, we explore how predictive analytics, machine learning and advanced correlation capabilities can work together to help automate anomaly isolation processes.

By Mark Pinskey
Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Automated Network Management

Wish you could speed up how you review device configuration? What if you could store device passwords and even compare the configs of devices? HP Network Device Configuration Inspector is a free tool that displays the current configuration of a network device, and highlights differences between two network devices. Here is quick look at how you can use it to verify and compare that various aspects of network device configurations.

By Mark Pinskey
Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Automated Network Management

Many administrators find it a challenge to discern how individual virtualized network devices are related. Here is how VMware Reporter, a new free network management tool, presents data in a way that lets you quickly access a complete inventory on a specified VMware vCenter Server, and drill down for more detailed information about each entity.

It all started with vPV showing me a few VMs with high degree of cpu "ready utilization". On investigation i was able to ascertain the root-cause - VM over-sizing. VMs allocated more vCPU than they really need. I have shared here the learnings i got from this exercise.

Do you see high ready-utilization in your environment too? How would you use vPV to localize this problem and get to the root-cause? What tools can you use to right-size the VM?

Read this blog and get answers to the above questions.

Are you getting advance notice on application performance problems? Would you like to have a real predictive monitoring solution for your business applications?

Now you can gain the advantage of HP Performance Anywhere to proactively address issues before your end users experience them. Continue reading to learn how you can get your hands on a beta version of HP Performance Anywhere.

Written by Alon Inditzky
Performance Anywhere | Product Manager
HP Software

Learn how SHO’s optimization can help you improve efficiency of your virtual host clusters.

How are event correlation and predictive analytics related? How can IT profit from Bigdata techniques? Here's how to start driving your BigData for IT strategy.

Monitoring your apps for a mobile world means more than simply making sure the app is running, and it has broader impact than you might have considered.

By Mark Pinskey

Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Automated Network Management

One of your most important jobs for any network administrator is confirming that network attached devices are configured to keep attack vulnerabilities to a minimum. Here is an overview of the new HP Network Port Scanner, a free network administration tool that easily and clearly identifies used and unused ports on a target host, allowing administrators to close these backdoors on devices that would-be attackers could exploit to gain access.

New software offering helps clients optimize usage and minimize audit liability through Oracle-verified discovery and automatic Oracle license compliance

By Mark Pinskey

Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Automated Network Management

Effective monitoring of Microsoft Lync-based Unified Communications deployments requires a complete view of the configuration settings of individual Lync users as well as dynamic information such as user registrations on the various Front End pools and servers. Here’s how a new free network administration tool can simplify managing Lync in your organization through detailed user inventories and dashboards.

How fast is your website? How fast is the website of your competition? Knowing this information is vital to your company’s survival.

Consumers expect access to your site within micro-seconds, and if you can’t keep up with their expectations, they will move to your competition.  Continue reading to find out how to keep up with your customer’s desires and keep their business.

By Mark Pinskey

Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Automated Network Management

Do you know the status of all the hosts in your network? This blog post, the first in a series about six new free network utilities HP now offers, explores how you can easily manage your IP address inventory, track changes and quickly assess the availability of your IP domains and hostnames for network devices on any subnet.

Welcome to the new way to manage your application performance. This morning HP unveiled the newest versions of HP Performance Anywhere and HP Agile Manager.  

Continue reading to find out how you can be one of the first to try out the new products, and be the envy of your colleagues.

Graphic 1:  HP Performance Anywhere Screen Shot, Business Impact