Benefits

• Gain visibility into application dependencies in dynamic environments, including virtualization, SOA, and cloud computing

• Accelerate application troubleshooting by pinpointing components that are associated with a specific application

• Quickly assess the service impact of infrastructure events or outages

• Improve change management and reduce risk by identifying  applications that depend on a particular server or network device

• Determine application dependencies to reduce risk associated with cloud migration, server virtualization, and data center consolidation

• Provide detailed, accurate information to business unit stakeholders about the complete application environment, including enabling components of the underlying infrastructure

Key AppMapper Xpert Features

• Automatically discover relationships among application and infrastructure components for complex, multi-tier applications
• Leverage existing performance management instrumentation
• Produce “run-time” application maps that accurately reflect dependencies at the time of execution
• Create a detailed map of an application’s dependencies, starting with a single application identifier (e.g., server name, URL, method name, process, database query, etc.)
• Combine network-level information with application details regarding processes, classes, components, and databases
• Visualize dependencies through simple application maps
• Easily add/delete relationships
• Search for any element throughout the application infrastructure, such as a user, host, URL, method name, SQL query, etc.
• Authenticate users using LDAP, Active Directory, Radius, and TACACS+
• Available through Software-as-a-Service or licensed software
  

Compare AppMapper Xpert to other solutions

• AppMapper Xpert provides a run-time model of application dependencies uniquely suited for operational workflows, unlike CMDB-based solutions that focus on static IT dependency models
• AppMapper Xpert automatically determines the dependency map for all kinds of applications, including “home grown” ones. Other solutions commonly rely on pre-determined architecture models for popular third-party applications, or manual input to define dependencies
• AppMapper Xpert is uniquely suited to dynamic operating environments, such as virtualized servers and SOA applications, because it produces an accurate run-time model of the application at the time of execution. Static models cannot achieve the same level of accuracy
• The SaaS delivery model minimizes up-front costs and accelerates benefits

Integrations

• Discover inter-server relationships, leveraging AppResponse Xpert's or AppTransaction Xpert agents’ visibility into network traffic
• Understand server roles within the architecture by adding detailed data from AppInternals Xpert
• Obtain system- and process-level information for servers and clients using integration with AppSensor Xpert
• Retrieve database user and transaction information for servers and clients leveraging integration with AppSQL Xpert
• Incorporate application maps into AppResponse Xpert dashboards and troubleshooting workflows

Testimonials

"AppMapper Xpert is awesome. Mapping applications in NetQoS is a completely manual process, and even then we do not see the mapping between hosts."

Network Engineer
Financial Services Company

"OPNET's capabilities in AppMapper Xpert... are indeed an impressive combination of practical, easily deployed options that deliver unique insights into real-time, application-to-application, and application-to-infrastructure interdependencies."

OPNET's AppMapper Xpert Brings Real-time Perspectives to Application Ecosystem Performance and Optimization,
Enterprise Management Associates