bridging the gap between pre-production testing and production monitoring
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HP LoadRunner, SiteScope & BAC
Bridging the gap between pre-production testing and production monitoring
Faraz Syed
Director – Performance Testing &
Business Service Management
+1 412.444.0554 x 550
Agenda
• Brief overview of Genilogix
• Performance and availability lifecycle
• LoadRunner, SiteScope and BAC
• Live Walkthrough
Genilogix overview
• One of 12 HP Software Platinum Partners
• HP-authorized tech support and training partner
• HP integrations• Cognos Virtual Users for LoadRunner
• VMWare MonitorBridge
• VMware VIP Enterprise Partner
• Offices in PA, NY, NC, MN, TX, and CA
Customer sampling
What is performance and availability lifecycle? • What?
– Managing performance and availability in both pre-production and production
• How?
– By integrating testing and monitoring solutions to drive efficiency, mitigate risk, and reduce costs
Why is it important?
Run Load Tests
Record Business Processes
Deploy and Monitor
Record Business Processes
Testing Operations
PerformanceRequirements?
“86% of IT projects experience performance problems when first put in production” Gartner
Performance and Availability lifecycle scenario
Monitor and Optimize
Reuse Business ProcessScripts
Test and Optimize
Record Business Process Scripts Bidirectional
Asset Reuse
TESTING OPERATIONS
Leverage Real and Synthetic User Information in QA
Reuse Business Processes Scripts/SLAs from Testing in Production
Unified Diagnostics
New application deployment
Continuous improvement
(Hot packs, fixes etc)
Major upgrades
Performance and Availability Lifecycle Process
MONITORING AND OPTIMIZATION
Build Test Scripts & Scenarios
Plan Capacity
Gather Performance Requirements
Diagnose Root Cause & Optimize
Run Performance Tests
Detect and Isolate Problems
Develop Monitoring Strategy
Diagnose Root Cause & Optimize
Gather Performance Requirements
Monitor App and Infrastructure
Build Monitoring Scripts
TESTING AND OPTIMIZATION
Validate Results
DevelopmentPerformance EngineerQuality Assurance
OperationsPerformance Engineer
Application Support
Deploy
BidirectionalScript Reuse
GoNo-Go
Reuse Business Processes Scripts/SLAs from Testing in Production
HP’s LoadRunner HP’s BAC & SiteScope
LoadRunner in a nutshell
HP’s LoadRunner
• Demonstration
What are the benefits of SiteScope?
• Agentless, enterprise-ready architecture that lowers TCO
• Monitors more than 65 different target types for critical health and performance characteristics
• Enables proactive alerts before end users experience problems
What are the key features of SiteScope?
• Can initiate automated corrective actions such as restarting servers, clearing disk space, and executing commands
• Generates daily, weekly, and monthly summaries of monitor readings with built-in management reports
• Seamlessly integrates with LoadRunner, Operations Center and System Availability Management component of Business Availability Center
Agentless monitoring with SiteScope
HP’s SiteScope
• Demonstration
HP BAC – End User Management
• End User Management provides two modules: Business Process Monitor (BPM) and Real User Monitor (RUM)
• BPM emulates the synthetic user by utilizing scripts that perform business functions
• Real User Monitor provides visibility into the real user experience by capturing the users session data for analysis or problem resolution
HP’s BAC
• Demonstration
