Argent Defender: Web Site And Intranet Load Testing And Analysis

How many times have you "gone live" with a web or intranet application only to see it blow up in your face? You 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. Users will not understand when performance and reliability decreases. You need to ensure that these applications are fully tested and analyzed prior to deployment. Yet how can you emulate hundreds, if not thousands, of end users? The Argent Defender is a stress testing and analysis solution that predicts the reliability and load bearing capabilities of web sites and intranet applications. The Argent Defender alerts you if the web site or intranet application slows below pre-defined thresholds. Stress testing, capacity planning and performance monitoring -- all in one solution.

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 web site or intranet application. Any number of sessions can be recorded with the Argent Defender. In the second test phase, between one and n regional agents load the web site or intranet application with complete transactions. 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 web site 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 web site 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 web site or intranet application. In this role, instead of stress testing the pre-production web site 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 your pre-defined thresholds, alerts are executed using Argent's powerful monitoring and alerting backbone, the Argent Guardian. Thus the full power of the Argent Guardian's alerting capabilities ensures all production web sites and intranet applications meet your customer's Service Level Agreement requirements.

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A single tool capable of automating variety of testing such as:

• Web Performance Testing - To quickly test the performance of your websites and web-based applications. Its automatic analysis enables you to accurately emulate the traffic of thousands of users to identify and isolate performance bottlenecks and optimize the user experience within minutes.
• Web Functional Testing - Client Side functional testing of web applications using simple Record and Playback technique with support for Checkpoints to validate the web page under test.

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A software testing tool capable of automating a variety of testing such as:

• Web Performance Testing - To quickly test the performance of your websites and web-based applications. Its automatic analysis enables you to accurately emulate the traffic of thousands of users to identify and isolate performance bottlenecks and optimize the user experience within minutes.
• Web Functional Testing - Client Side functional testing of web applications using simple Record and Playback technique with support for Checkpoints to validate the web page under test.
• Java Application Functional Testing - Functional testing (Black-box Testing) verifies the applications behavior against the behavior stated in the functional specification.
• Java API Testing (White-box Testing)- To test the functionality of API's such as RMI API's, EJB components etc.,
• Regression Testing - Nightly build testing to check if the Java application reproduces same results under repeated testing without any compromise on other parameters.
• Java Application Performance Testing - To measure the performance of distributed multi-tier applications, hit count and latency period of APIs for J2SE / J2EE applications.

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Use Simulation Toolkit to:

• Test management applications by simulating large, complex network environments.
• Evaluate new management products prior to purchase and customize them after purchase.
• Train network engineers, administrators, and technicians without impacting your live network.
• Demonstrate the capabilities of the network management product easily and effectively.
• Develop management applications in parallel with agent development through simulation of device prototypes.

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The SNMP tools can communicate and interact with any SNMP-enabled device. Also it is very helpful for debugging and testing. The SNMP Utilities has a simple and intuitive graphic user interface that allows you to perform various functions in a mouse-click.

AdventNet SNMP Utilities consists of the following tools: MIB Browser, SNMP Trap Viewer, SNMP Proxy Configurator, SNMP Decoder, Proxy Forwarder, and i18N Editor.

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