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Overview
Tool Sets

Argent Omega

Argent Omega is the next-generation Argent monitoring product.

Argent Omega provides an easy-to-use interface with integrated AI learning.

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Argent Compliance Automator
Argent Omega Baseline
Argent Omega for Microsoft 365
Argent Omega for SNMP
Argent Omega for SQL Server
Argent Omega Web Defender

Argent Guardian Ultra

Argent Guardian^® Ultra is the world’s most scalable monitoring solution for all Windows, Linux, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, SCO, Solaris), and iSeries Servers. Using a patented agent-optional architecture, Argent Guardian^® Ultra monitors servers with or without installing agents, providing the power and flexibility to define the monitoring architecture to match customers’ exact needs.

Argent Guardian^® Ultra monitors the health and performance of servers and when issues arise, alerts are executed via Argent Console. Argent Console can be viewed using both a traditional GUI interface, as well as a web-based interface. Over a dozen different types of alerts can be executed using Argent Console, such as alphanumeric paging, email, and SMS. Argent also can take corrective measures, such as restarting stopped or stalled services and even rebooting servers. As a result, IT personnel are notified and issues are addressed automatically before end users even know problems exist. Argent makes SLA commitments easy to meet.

Find out why more than 2,000 organizations worldwide rely on Argent to enhance the reliability and performance of their enterprise.

Agent-Optional Architecture

Using a unique and patented agent-optional architecture, Argent Guardian® Ultra is the leading solution for monitoring all aspects of the enterprise from a central console. Argent Guardian® Ultra supports all Windows, Linux, Unix and iSeries systems. The product is delivered with powerful, pre-defined Rule Sets containing over 10,000 Rules and pre-defined reports enabling customers to immediately maximize the reliability of production servers and applications through the automatic detection and correction of problems and issues. For example, Service Level Agreement reports can be generated each day and then automatically emailed to management.

Lower Support Costs And Increased Reliability

Argent Guardian® Ultra decreases the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while at the same time increasing the reliability of production servers, all from a central console that can be viewed using both a traditional GUI interface, as well as a web-based interface. Over 10,000 pre-defined Rules enable customers to effectively and comprehensively monitor all production servers within two hours of installation.

Flexible Architecture: Scales To Meet Requirements

Only Argent supports a number of different monitoring architectures. Install Argent Guardian® Ultra on a single server and, in a matter of minutes, monitor all the servers in the enterprise. For larger organizations, install Regional Agents for greater flexibility. For customers with unique needs, Argent Guardian® Ultra supports both remote (agentless) and agent-based monitoring in the same domain. As a result, whether there are 10 servers or 10,000 servers, Argent Guardian® Ultra is the ideal solution.

Argent is the choice of four of the five largest law firms on the world.

Unique n-Tier Architecture

No other product has Argent Guardian® Ultra’s true n-tier architecture. Monitoring Groups and SuperConsoles can easily be created to group servers along business lines, geographic location, or server type; the possibilities are unlimited.

Only Argent Console enables customers to view all outstanding alerts from all Monitoring Groups worldwide on a central console as well as issue alerts when problems arise. For example, servers can be grouped by type – all SQL Servers in one monitoring environment, all Exchange Servers in another, all IIS Servers in another, and so on and yet still view them all on the same console.

A Total Solution

Argent Guardian® Ultra is a complete and integrated solution. Unlike other vendors who sell separate consoles and GUIs, Argent Guardian® Ultra provides everything needed to completely monitor the enterprise at one cost-effective price. Argent Guardian® Ultra integrates with help desk solutions such as Remedy, as well as all common hardware monitors, such as Dell OpenManage and IBM Director.

Windows Monitoring

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

CPU

CPU overload
Processor bottleneck
Excessive CPU utilization by process
Processor errors

Disk

Free space
Used space
Disk queue length
Disk I/O by processes

Memory

Available memory
Excessive memory usage by processes
Memory shortage

Network

Network bottleneck
Network availability
Inbound traffic
Outbound traffic
Network errors
Cluster network availability
Cluster network interface availability

Processes

Hung processes
Key application processes

Service Level Agreement

Windows API
TCP/IP Ping
Port Status Checks
File Share Accessibility
SSH Logons

Services

ArcServe
Backup Exec
DB2
DHCP Client/DHCP Server
Lotus Domino
IBM Websphere HTTP
IIS
Oracle
Routing And Remote Access
Print Spooler
SQL Server
ICA Browser
Terminal Services

System

Availability
Registry Keys
System Uptime
Service Pack Levels
PowerShell/WMI Connectivity

Linux/Unix Monitoring

Because of Argent’s unique architecture, Argent installs in under 10 minutes and is monitoring your environment in under an hour.
Argent gives you the choice of any – or all – of the following seven methods to monitor your Linux and Unix servers:

Centrally Located Scripts – No Confusion

Argent holds all Unix and Linux Rule Scripts on central W200x servers, so all your Rule Scripts for all Unix and Linux platforms are centrally maintained – easy to find, easy to use, and easy to backup. No more searching for the machine holding that critical but elusive script, and no more confusion with 10 different versions of the same script on 10 different servers.

Argent gives you the choice of any – or all – of seven methods to access your Unix and Linux servers.

Script-based Flexibility – No Learning Curve

Argent monitors all Unix and Linux platforms using Rule Scripts, providing Customers with complete flexibility and ease of use. Argent provides a complete set of Rule Scripts for all platforms covering all your common, day-to-day monitoring needs. And you can easily add to your own scripts.

Total Testing – Saving You Time

Argent provides total testing for all scripts before they go live – even today most vendors have no test facilities or test logs. Argent is designed for the real world, where you reside.

Partial Rule List

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.

CPU

CPU utilization
CPU trend analysis
1-minute load average
Excessive CPU by process

Disk

Free disk space
Used disk space
Swap space used
Available swap space

Memory

Free memory
Excessive memory usage by process

Network

Network bandwidth
Network traffic
Network issues
Network performance
Network connections

Processes

Oracle user processes
Running processes
Sleeping processes
Zombie processes

Databases

Oracle
MySQL
Sybase

System

TCP/IP Ping
DB2 port check
Oracle listener port check
SMTP port check
POP3 protocol verification
SMTP protocol verification
Server response time
Connected users
OS level

Daemons

lpsched
NFS biod
NFS lockd
NFS mountd
NFS nfsd
NFS statd

Miscellaneous

System log
Boot log
Cron log
FTP log
Sendmail log
Postfix log
NTP log

iSeries/AS400 Monitoring

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

CPU

CPU utilization
Job CPU usage

Disk

Free disk space
Used disk space

Jobs

Job not active
Job state
Job Queue status
Batch jobs ended with
Batch jobs ending
Batch jobs held
Batch jobs held on job
Batch jobs on held job
Batch jobs on unassigned
Batch jobs running
Batch jobs scheduled
Batch jobs waiting

Network

Line/Control Unit/Device/Network Interface/Network Server status
TCP stack not active

System

Oracle
Server response time
TCP/IP ping
Library size
Concurrent users
Messages in Message Queue
Output Queue status
Subsystem not active
System ASP utilization
System Pool size
System Pool status
Job Audit log
Journal Audit log
QHST log
Concurrent users
Additional storage too low
ASP system storage too low
Auxiliary storage lower limit too low
Current unprotected storage used too high
Main storage size too low
Main storage size of all pools too low
Maximum unprotected storage too high
Overflow storage too low
Total auxiliary storage too low
Users signed off
Users signed off with printer output
Users signed on
Users suspended due to group jobs
Users suspended due to SYSREQ

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent AWS

AWS is new, AWS is exciting, and AWS is grossly undermanaged.

While Amazon has done a superb job, an independent, agnostic, and even-handed outside auditor and monitor is essential for all production AWS implementation.

This is precisely what the new Argent for AWS provides.

AWS is growing by the day, and it is getting more and more difficult to have a global view of your entire AWS environment.

Argent for AWS provides the following baseline facilities:

Ability To Monitor All Aspects Exposed By AWS Console And AWS SDK
Integration With Argent Console, The World’s Leading Alerting Console
Integration With Argent Predictor For Long-Term Trend Analysis (Not Just 14 Days)
Capable Of Native Monitoring of Windows And Linux Applications
Comprehensive S3 Monitoring
Complete Log Monitoring On S3, EBS Volume Or EC2 Instance Store Volume

EC2

Instance State
Instance Status
System Status
CPU
Disk Read Operations
Disk Write Operations
Disk Read Bytes
Disk Write Bytes
Network Incoming Bytes
Network Outgoing Bytes
Network Incoming Packets
Network Outgoing Packets

EC2 Credits

CPU Credit Usage
CPU Credit Balance

EC2 Operating System

Windows Performance Rules
Windows Service Rules
Windows Event Rules
Windows File Log Rules
Linux Script Rules
LINUX File Log Rules

Elastic Beanstalk Application

Health Status
Health Color
App Events

RDS

Database Status
RDS Events
DB Connections
Free Storage Space
CPU
Freeable Memory
Swap Usage
IO Disk Queue Depth
IO Read IO OP
IO Write IO OP
IO Read Throughput
IO Write Throughput
Network Receive Throughput
Network Transmit Throughput
Replica Lag

RDS Credits

CPU Credit Usage
CPU Credit Balance

DynamoDB

Table Row Count
Table Size
Conditional Check Failed Requests
Consumed Read Capacity Units
Consumed Write Capacity Units
Provisioned Read Capacity Units
Provisioned Write Capacity Units
IO Read Throttle Events
Query Returned Item Count
Stream Returned Bytes
Stream Returned Records Count
IO Successful Request Latency
IO Successful Request Count
System Errors
IO Throttled Requests
User Errors
IO Write Throttle Events

S3

S3 Object
S3 Log
Bucket Size
Object Count

CloudWatch

All CloudWatch Metrics

Argent Console

Argent Console is the world’s leading alerting console.

With Argent Console, Alerts can be consolidated from customer applications, third-party products, as well as from all Argent products.

All Alerts and alarms from customer applications and third-party products can be consolidated using Argent’s powerful ActiveX and XML interfaces. Any number of third party packages can send Alerts directly to the console as well.

Argent Console is the perfect solution for a customer’s central console. Argent Console allows tracking of and creates Alerts about all events as they occur on the network.

Enterprise Application View

What Argent provides today is an Enterprise View of Customer’s critical applications. Rather than just monitoring the CPU load in isolation, Argent integrates this single metric into a custom weighted scheme.

For example, take an Exchange 2007 environment running on four servers.

If one server fails, then Argent reports the Exchange environment has been degraded by 20% and sends out one set of Argent Alerts.

If two servers fail, Argent Enterprise View reports a 50% degradation and send out additional Argent Alerts.

If three servers fail, then Argent Enterprise View will report a 85% degradation.

Customers can adjust the parameters to meet their needs. The impact of a single event can be entirely different than that of multiple events.

Argent Enterprise View looks at all of the application’s critical components. It does not matter if the various components are distributed throughout the world.

Argent monitors all aspects of your critical applications.

Unprecedented SNMP Support

Argent Console provides a new level of support to receive alarms and Alerts from any SNMP device and record it on the central Argent Console.

Unlimited Alerting And Alert Escalation

Argent Console has long been known for its powerful array of Alerts such as Email Alerts, Alphanumeric Pager Alerts, Network Message Alerts, SMS Alerts, SQL Alerts (that fire customer created SQL scripts as an Alert), and Service Alerts (to stop and restart Windows Services).

These Alerts can be used with pre-existing applications — the alarm is simply sent to Argent Console, the customer specifies which alert is to be fired and Argent does the rest.

Escalating Alerts allow customers the ability to specify a detailed alerting sequence for any particular issue. For instance, if employee X is alerted via email and does not respond, then employee Z will be alerted via pager, etc. Customers have complete control over escalation details including who will be notified and how the alert will be sent.

Ease Of Use

The Total Support Interface, part of Argent Console, enables the sending of any customized Alerts directly to the console.

Because of the universal nature of Argent Console, the ActiveX interface allows the sending of alarms and Alerts from literally any language, from PERL to Visual Basic, to C++.

The Total Support Interface provides complete code samples, technical notes, and engineering notes and an SDK.

Automation

Argent introduces a powerful new automatic report distribution facility to allow the receiving of specific reports that are considered important to the customer. Reports can be scheduled of the customer’s top-10 issues or weekly reports of the top-10 problematic servers. And of course, the revolutionary Argent calendaring features, popular in Argent AT and Argent Job Scheduler, are fully supported.

Argent divides Alerts into two categories, Notification and Correction Alerts.

The following table lists some of the installed Alerts.

Notification Alerts

Alphanumeric Pager
Email
Network Message
SMS
System Alarm
Third-Party Help Desk
Twitter
Unix Action Script
Windows Event Log

Correction Alerts

iSeries Commands
ODBC/SQL Query
PowerShell Action Scripts
Service Start/Stop/Restart
SNMP
System Commands
System Reboot
Linux/Unix Action Scripts
WMI Action Scripts

SuperMaps lets you quickly see the Alerts for your entire enterprise

Any image can be used as a SuperMap — geographical maps, network diagrams, floor plans or a even a digital photo of a server rack

SuperMaps represents Alerts as dots, varying from red, orange, yellow, or green — all configurable of course

Individual SuperMaps can also be hot-linked together, allowing you to effectively zoom in from macro to micro within a few mouse clicks

SuperMaps can also be viewed and shared using a web browser through Argent’s revolutionary Web 2.0 dashboard — Argent Commander

To discuss SuperMaps with an Argent professional, please email
SuperMaps@Argent.com

Argent for SharePoint

All SharePoint environments need complete automation and Instant Best Practices.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

Keep your worldwide SharePoint environment running smoothly with Argent for SharePoint – Instant Best Practices, Automation, Crystal Reports, Management, and Monitoring all in one fully-integrated solution.

If you’re serious about SharePoint, you’ll need a serious solution with Instant Best Practices.

For a live demo site, visit http://help.argent.com/#e_sp

Details

Argent for SharePoint monitors and reports on SharePoint baselines, such as crawling properties, SSPs, fat documents, web applications, and site counts.

Argent for SharePoint comes with pre-defined reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of SharePoint.

Understanding SharePoint Monitoring

The do’s and dont’s of monitoring SharePoint are readily accessible as a free Argent White Paper

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

Until Instant Best Practices, you’d have to read tedious White Papers, download and install quirky scripts, install so-called “Management” packs, find a slew of vendors’ add-ons, etc, etc, etc.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

MOSS Configuration

Excessive Keywords Per Site
Excessive Managed Properties
Excessive SSPs
Excessive User Profiles

MOSS Search

Deep Crawls
Excessive Crawls Per SSP

SharePoint Configuration

Excessive Web Applications

SharePoint File System

Excessive Fat Documents
Excessive Flat Folders

SharePoint Sites

Excessive Number of Subsites
Excessive Number of Sites
Overloaded Web Sites

Connectivity

Windows NetRemote TOD API Check
TCP/IP Ping

Performance

CPU Utilization
Free Disk Space
Memory Utilization
Network Utilization
SharePoint Search Query Count

PowerShell Management

Active Directory Disabled Accounts
Unauthorized Network Shares

Services

SharePoint Search Service
SharePoint Timer Service
SharePoint Admin Service
SharePoint Writer Service

Argent for Exchange

Argent for Exchange is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for Exchange is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure Exchange runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

The most significant aspect of Argent for Exchange is the use of a number of different approaches to monitoring Exchange: PowerShell, Exchange Management Shell, WMI, and classic Windows APIs are all used in different parts of the product. Think of Argent for Exchange as four or five discrete products all integrated into one super-product.

Details

Exchange 2016 and below are fully supported — Argent for Exchange is tightly integrated with the Exchange Management Shell, and it can automate all the Exchange administration work. Also, any future Microsoft update on Exchange can easily be added.

.NET environments are also fully supported by incorporating a powerful Argent PowerShell engine. Any custom Exchange script, either PowerShell or WMI, can easily be added.

Product configuration is greatly simplified. No need to explicitly configure customer profiles, etc. Argent for Exchange also takes advantage of the auto-discover function in Exchange without tying to an explicit Exchange Client Access Server. In contrast, in other products, customers may need to configure customer profiles, which are customer-specific and confusing when the logon the customer uses is different from the monitoring service account.

With Argent for Exchange, customers can now monitor Exchange from the viewpoint of an end user – the product supports the complete set of client-access protocols used in Exchange, namely:

Round Trip Test

MAPI interface, which is the default Exchange protocol for Outlook

Outlook Anywhere, which is the mobile Exchange protocol for Outlook

Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Outlook Web Services

With Argent for Exchange, customers can now monitor Exchange server baselines including DNS, Active Directory, Service Health, System Health and System Messages.

With Argent for Exchange, customers can now monitor Exchange server infrastructure especially the Transport functionalities.

With Argent for Exchange, customers can monitor Exchange mailbox servers as a whole, as well as the individual mailbox. The information is guaranteed to be consistent with the data reported by Exchange management tools.

With Argent for Exchange, customers can now monitor mail flow by directly analyzing message tracking log. We detect bad mail as well as providing statistics on traffic of individual account.

With Argent for Exchange, customers can still monitor legacy Exchange 2003/Exchange 2000/Exchange 5.5 system through custom WMI rules, legacy protocol rules and legacy MAPI rules. This can help with a smooth migration process.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

System Performance

CPU Utilization
Free Disk Space
Memory Utilization
Network Utilization

End-to-End User Experience

Mail Flow (Round Trip) Latency
MAPI Connectivity and Latency
Outlook Anywhere Latency
Outlook Web Access (OWA) Latency

Infrastructure

DNS Resolution Time
Active Directory Logon Delays
System Health
Service Health
Excessive Message Count In Queue
Exchange Connector Down
ActiveSync Testing
Exchange Search Testing

Information Storage

Mailbox Database Size Too Large
Mailbox Size Limit Exceeded
Mailbox Message Count Exceeded
Mailbox Inactivity
Mailbox Quota Exceeded
Public Folder Database Too Large
Public Folder Size Limit Exceeded
Public Folder Message Count Exceeded
Public Folder Inactivity

Exchange Mail Flow

Undeliverable Email Events
Delayed Email Events
Delivery Status Notification Events
Message Delivery Failed Events
Maximum Delivery Attempts Exceeded Events
Excessive Emails Sent From An Account
Excessive Emails Received By An Account

Exchange Accounts

Account Creation
Account Modification
Account Deletion

Services

Exchange Services

Connectivity

MAPI Logon/Logoff
TCP/IP Ping
POP3, SMTP Protocol Verification
Windows NetRemote TOD API Check
Too Many Users Logged On
Exchange Server Unreachable
IMAP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP Server Stopped
PowerShell Management

Clusters

Cluster Node/Group/Network/Network Interface/Resource Check
Cluster Resource Offline/Failed

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for Java

Designed and architected by technology visionary James Gosling in the mid-1990s, Java is a very popular programming language that has been adopted by many software developers. Programs written in Java are used today on millions of devices worldwide.

Java is the buzzword today everywhere.

Google’s Android phones are a key factor and, while Android dominates the smartphone industry, Java is increasingly used in home appliances like televisions, refrigerators, dishwashers, and security systems. Java is an important technology driving the explosive growth of the Internet, especially smart devices and the ‘Internet of Things’. Keep counting the number of computers and devices that use Java as the list is growing day by day.

Java’s rapid adoption and growth cannot be attributed only to Android. Java can be easily ported to a wide variety of operating systems and platforms. Java can be used in Web applications, mobile apps, and complex user interface (UI) programs. Java can be used to integrate divergent legacy applications in extract-transfer-load (ETL) scenarios.

With so many Java programs all around us, it is important to manage and monitor existing and emerging Java-based applications.

What is Argent for Java?

Argent for Java is a comprehensive tracking, monitoring, and management solution focused on Java-based applications across your enterprise.

Argent for Java provides a rule-based monitoring engine that collects statistics and metrics about your Java applications and reports and generates alerts for exception conditions.

Why Argent for Java?

Although Java has been ported and migrated to many operating systems and platforms, the language and run time performance is rarely optimized for each particular platform. Independent Software Providers (ISPs) and IT departments are often most concerned about delivering application features and functionality as a priority ahead of performance and reliability.

The performance and reliability of Java-based applications vary widely and are not consistent. A Java application developed for a UNIX platform may perform poorly on a Windows platform (and vice versa).

Tracking, monitoring, and managing your Java-based applications’ performance and resource utilization is critically important, especially in non-stop environments such as customer-facing website applications.

Monitoring CPU and memory utilization can provide useful information but does not help you relate that information to your Java applications.

Argent for Java makes monitoring and managing your Java applications both easy and efficient. With Argent for Java you can forget about memory leaks, deadlocked and blocked threads, CPU overload, and more.

Argent for Java helps ensure your Java-based applications perform smoothly and reliably across your entire enterprise.

Argent for Java screens both JVMs and base servers via Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology.

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Java incorporates a design architecture called the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JVM is a hypervisor that executes the Java programs written for it. An implementation of the JVM is part of making Java available on a given platform and operating system. Without an implementation of the JVM, Java programs can not run. Java programs running within the JVM provide platform independence. This is because JVM converts the Java program’s commands to the native language of the machine or device where the JVM and the Java program are installed.

When a Java application is launched, a JVM is instantiated for that application and persists in memory until the application completes. Internally, within a given operating system, there will be as many JVMs as there are Java applications launched.

Under Microsoft Windows, this is comparable to running a console-style application within a DOS command prompt window: There will be as many DOS command prompt windows as there are console-style command line programs active.

Since a JVM is a run-time environment for a Java application, each JVM will consume computer resources such as memory, CPU, and so on.

Argent for Java provides collects vital statistics for the JVM (and, correspondingly, the companion Java application).

Metrics and statistics collected include: Memory and CPU usage, CPU time consumed, thread and handle usage, thread counts, locks/deadlocks, and many more.

Argent for Java also keeps track of similar metrics for host machine where the JVM has been instantiated.

Memory Management

Within an instantiated JVM, memory must be allocated for new objects. Each JVM divides memory allocation into two categories: Heap Memory and Non-Heap Memory.

Heap Memory

Java heap memory from the Operating System is allocated by the JVM and it manages the heap for its Java Application. Every time the Java application creates a new object, the Java Virtual Machine gives out an adjacent space or an array of heap memory to store it within the heap memory already it took from the OS. “Live” objects that are frequently referenced by other objects are retained in the heap and those not referenced anymore are emptied from the heap or Garbage Collected by the JVM. This frees the heap memory.

The most newly created objects are referred to as “Young” generation by JVM algorithms and they become “Old” generation after they endure a few garbage collection processes. The Young generation holds on to a small but extremely active segment of the heap where new objects are allocated. When the space allocated for Young generation gets full, a special garbage collection called Young collection frees up some of the Young heaps by moving or promoting the oldest of the Young heaps to the Old heap. This frees up some space in Young heap, which lets the JVM to allocate new objects again. Old collection frees up space in the Old heap by running a garbage collection in the Old heap.

Young generation heap is again split into Eden Space and Survivor Space.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

General

JVM Uptime
JVM CPU Usage
JVM CPU Time
JVM Total Compile Time
JVM Physical Memory Usage
JVM Swap Space Usage
Custom MBeans Attributes
Unix Rules

Garbage Collector

JVM Garbage Collection Count
JVM Garbage Collection Time

Heap Memory

JVM Survivor Space Statistics Rules
JVM Eden Space Statistics Rules
JVM Old Space Statistics Rules
JVM Overal Heap Memory Space Utilization

Non-Heap Memory Statistics

JVM Metaspace
JVM Compressed Class Space
JVM Code Cache Statistics
JVM Overall Non-Heap Memory Space Utilization

Class Loader Statistics

JVM Total Classes Loaded
JVM Current Classes Loaded

Thread Statistics

JVM Live Thread Count
JVM Live Daemon Thread Count
JVM Peak Live Thread Count
JVM Total Threads Started Count
JVM Total Threads CPU Time
JVM Deadlocked Threads

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for SNMP

Argent for SNMP is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for SNMP is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential, but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure your SNMP devices run smoothly.

Here are some of the features that Argent for SNMP provides:

Reliable SNMP Discovery
Network Topology Discovery
Argent Universal MIB Library
Support for all SNMP Versions
Enhanced SNMP Trap Handling Model
Readability of SNMP Events
Automatic Monitoring — monitor devices in a few clicks

For a live demo site, visit http://help.Argent.com/#e_afs

Automation – Automate All Your Work

With uniquely powerful built-in scheduling, customers can prioritize SNMP monitoring and schedule data collection for performance reports to take place in real time, once an hour or only in the evenings and advanced calendaring options allow any number of different monitoring policies.

See The Benefits For Yourself

The benefits of Argent for SNMP over its venerable predecessor are numerous — read the Argent Encyclopedia document at http://help.Argent.com/#e_afs

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Management

Built-in MIB and OID Browser
Formula Expressions
Long Walk
OID Aliases
Walk Within Branch

SNMP Rules

3Com
APC
Banyan
Brocade
Checkpoint
Cisco
Compaq
Dell
Emulex
Extreme Network
Fortinet
Foundry
HP
IBM
Intermec
JetDirect
Lannet
Lexmark
Liebert
Linux/Unix
Lucent
Microsoft
Netscreen
Novell
Sonic
UPS
Web Logic

Performance and Latency

Bandwidth Usage
Port Status
Throughput
TCP/IP Ping
TCP Port Check
Packet Loss %
SNMP Service Availability

SNMP Trap Rules

3Com
APC
Banyan
Brocade
Checkpoint
Cisco
Compaq
Dell
Emulex
Extreme Network
Fortinet
Foundry
HP
IBM
Intermec
JetDirect
Lannet
Lexmark
Liebert
Linux/Unix
Lucent
Microsoft
Netscreen
Novell
Sonic
UPS
Web Logic

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for Storage

Storage is a critical component in most enterprise networks, and like all critical components — it can’t go down.

To make matters worse, storage devices have many sub-components in and of themselves — Storage Processors, Disk Array Enclosures, Buses, Disks, LUNs, Fibre Channel, Tape, Switches, Clusters — the list goes on.

The question “What should I be monitoring, and what thresholds?” is the immediate response for most Storage Administrators.

Argent for Storage’s Instant Best Practices does the heavy-lifting for administrators, and provides expert recommendations on thresholds that typical enterprises would need. With Argent for Storage you can be up and running in 45 minutes, not 45 days; Argent for Storage is meticulously engineered to ensure you are not flooded with thousands of meaningless alerts.

And Argent is vendor-agnostic — Argent for Storage aims to cover all the major players: EMC, NetApp, HP, IBM and Dell.

Proactive Monitoring and Reporting

Argent for Storage proactively detects and stops SAN-related issues before your enterprise is impacted.

Critical data is collected for historical reporting and trend analysis, and visualized through Argent Reports and Argent Commander.

Argent for Storage also provides corrective actions by integrating with vendor-specific CLI or PowerShell that can be run in response to an issue. Additionally, detailed notifications that pinpoint the exact Disk, Bus, and Enclosure can be sent via email or SMS to the Storage team.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

EMC VNX

Array Status
Array Power Status
Standby Power Supply Status
Main Power Supply Status
Storage Processor Engine Power Status
Hard Read Error
Hard Write Error
Soft Read Error
Soft Write Error
Disk Utilization
Raid Group Utilization
Defragmentation\Expansion – Performance
Storage Processor Utilization

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for XenApp

Argent for XenApp is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for XenApp is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure XenApp runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?
The most significant aspect of Argent for XenApp is the use of a number of different approaches to monitoring XenApp, unifying a centralized monitoring platform for XenApp running on all Windows or Linux/Unix systems. Think of Argent for XenApp as four or five discrete products all integrated into one super-product.

Details

Argent for XenApp monitors and reports on XenApp baselines, such as availability, access rules, authentication, licensing and ICA session rules.
Argent for XenApp integrates with pre-defined Argent Reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of XenApp.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

XenApp Application Monitoring Rules

Anonymous Connection Rules
Application Availability Rules
Application User Count Rules
Disabled Application Rules
Process CPU Usage Rules
Session Usage Time Rules

XenApp Availability Rules

AppController Rules
Citrix License Server Rules
Common Citrix Communication Port Rules
EdgeSight Rules
Password Manager Rules
StageManager Rules
XenApp Rules
XenClient Rules

Accessibility Monitoring Rules

Desktop Access Rules
Directory Access Rules
RADIUS Rules

Agent Monitoring Rules

Citrix Safeword Rules
RSA Rules
User-Agent HTTP Header Rules

Authentication Monitoring Rules

Access Gateway Authentication Rules
Anonymous Logon Rules
Context Look-up Failure Rules
Invalid Authentication Rules
Novell Directory Services[NDS] Rules
Two-factor Authentication Rules
Web Interface Authentication Rules
Workspace Control Rules

Miscellaneous

Citrix Online Plugin Monitoring Rules
Citrix Streaming Service Monitoring Rules
Citrix XML Service Monitoring Rules
Client Detection Monitoring Rules
Event ID File Monitoring Rules
ICA File Signing Monitoring Rules
Password Manager Monitoring Rules
SSL Connection Monitoring Rules
Secure Ticket Authority Monitoring Rules

Configuration Monitoring Rules

Protocol Transition Service Rules
Site Configuration Rules
Web Interface Configuration Rules

Permission Monitoring Rules

Client For Java Rules
Client Installer Rules
Language Pack File Rules
Server Monitoring Rules

Server Error Rules

Server Farm Rules
Server License Rules

Citrix CPU Utilization Management User Rules

CPU Entitlement Rules
CPU Shares Rules
CPU Usage Rules
Long-term CPU Usage Rules

Citrix IMA Networking Rules

Bytes Received Per Second Rules
Bytes Sent Per Second Rules
Network Connections Rules

Citrix Licensing Rules

Average License Check-In Response Time Rules
Average License Check-Out Response Time Rules
Last Recorded License Check-In Response Time Rules
Last Recorded License Check-Out Response Time Rules
License Server Connection Failure Rules
Maximum License Check-In Response Time Rules
Maximum License Check-Out Response Time Rules

Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server Rules

Application Resolution Time Rules
Application Resolutions Per Second Rules
Cumulative Server Load Rules
Data Store Connection Failure Rules
Data Store Bytes Read Rules
Data Store Bytes Read Per Second Rules
Data Store Bytes Written Per Second Rules
Data Store Reads Rules
Data Store Reads Per Second Rules

ICA Session Rules

Input Audio Bandwidth Rules
Input Clipboard Bandwidth Rules
Input COM Bandwidth Rules
Input Control Channel Bandwidth Rules
Input Drive Bandwidth Rules
Input Font Data Bandwidth Rules
Input Licensing Bandwidth Rules
Input Printer Bandwidth Rules
Input Seamless Bandwidth Rules
Input Session Bandwidth Rules
Input Session Compression Rules
Input Session Line Speed Rules
Latency – Last Recorded Rules
Latency – Session Average Rules
Latency – Session Deviation Rules
Output Audio Bandwidth Rules
Output Clipboard Bandwidth Rules
Output COM Bandwidth Rules
Output Control Channel Bandwidth Rules
Output Drive Bandwidth Rules
Output Font Data Bandwidth Rules
Output Printer Bandwidth Rules
Output Seamless Bandwidth Rules
Output Session Bandwidth Rules
Output Session Compression Rules
Output Session Line Speed Rules
Output ThinWire Bandwidth Rules

Secure Ticket Authority Rules

STA Count of Active Tickets Rules
STA Good Data Request Count Rules
STA Good Ticket Request Count Rules
STA Peak All Request Rate Rules
STA Peak Ticket Request Rate Rules
STA Ticket Timeout Count Rules

XenApp Server Monitoring Rules

XenApp Server Load Rules

XenApp Service Status Monitoring Rules

CPU Rebalancer Service Rules
Resource Management Service Rules
Citrix Independent Management Architecture Service Rules
Citrix Licensing Service Rules
Citrix Licensing WMI Service Rules
Citrix MFCOM Service Rules
Citrix Print Manager Service Rules
Citrix Streaming Service
Citrix Virtual Memory Optimization Service Rules
Citrix WMI Service Rules
Citrix XML Service Rules
Citrix XTE Server Service Rules
Remote Desktop Service Rules

XenApp Session Monitoring Rules

Active Session Count Rules
Connected Session Count Rules
Disconnected Session Count Rules
Listening Session Count Rules
User Specific Session Count Rules

Argent for Active Directory

Argent for Active Directory is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for Active Directory is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure Active Directory runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

The most significant aspect of Argent for Active Directory product is the use of a number of different approaches to monitoring Active Directory: PowerShell, WMI, and classic Windows APIs are all used in different parts of the product. Think of Argent for Active Directory as four or five discrete products all integrated into one super-product.

Details

Argent for Active Directory monitors and reports on Active Directory baselines, such as DNS, LDAP response times, file replication, trusts and authentication.

Argent for Active Directory comes with pre-defined SLA reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of Active Directory.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

Active Directory

Bad Password Counts
Created Users
Disabled Users
Group Members
Locked User Counts
Unchanged Passwords

Authentication

Kerberos Authentication Rates
NTLM Authentication Rates
Check Logon Authentication

Connectivity

Active Directory Web Services
Distributed File System Replication
Global Catalog Server
Kerberos
LDAP SSL
RPC Server
Server Message Block (SMB)
SMTP Replication

Directory Services

DRA Inbound/Outbound Bytes/Sec
DRA Pending Replications
Name Cache Hit Rate

DNS

DNS Authentication
DNS Event Logs
DNS Resolution (Any Record Type)
DNS Server Services
Connectivity

File Replication

Binding Errors
Change Orders
File Errors
Packets Sent/Received
USN Records

LDAP

Bind Times
Client Sessions
Custom LDAP Queries
Services
Distributed File System
Intersite Messaging
Kerberos Key Distribution Center
Net Logon
Resultant Set of Policy Provider
Routing and Remote Access
Windows Time

System

CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Disk Storage Usage
File Accessibility
Protocol Verification
System Uptime
Service Pack Level
TCP/IP Port Checks

Argent for SAP

SAP runs your business, Argent for SAP ensures your SAP runs flawlessly.

Argent monitors your SAP landscape in real time ensuring critical business functions never slows down, or worse, stop.

Argent simplifies monitoring the complex SAP environment and helps administrators troubleshoot issues before they become critical.

Argent for SAP installs in under 10 minutes, but has more power than any product on the market.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

General

Access Point Status
Dispatcher Queue Status
Enqueue Lock Counts
Enqueue Server Statistics
Host Agent Status
Instance Status
Open Alerts
Process Status
SAP/Oraclce Services
Trace Files

Java

Garbage Collection
Heap Memory
Java Instance Components
Java Instance Thread
Cache
EJB Sessions
Remote Object Connections
Shared Memory Table

ABAP

System Log Rules
Work Process Rules

ICM

Cache Entries Count
Cache Size
Proxy Connection Status
Thread Status
Worker Thread Count

Operating System

CPU Usage
Disk Usage
Memory Usage
Service Level Agreement
Windows Events

Argent Job Scheduler

The days of manually scheduling and managing batch processes are over. Business process automation lowers overall IT costs, ensures application efficiency, enhances IT service, and assists with compliance automation. Argent Job Scheduler and Argent Queue Engine automate business processes, alert customers via Argent Console when issues occur, and provide Service Level Agreements so that management receives the Business View of IT. Argent Job Scheduler provides a single point of control across all operating systems, applications and databases for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO and iSeries Servers.

Business process automation is simplified with Argent Job Scheduler and Argent Queue Engine. Installation requires no reboot. Argent Job Scheduler has a comprehensive feature set, including complete forecasting, auditing, calendaring, and failover, as well as job and file dependency support.

World View Web Interface

Argent World View is a Web 2.0 interface for Argent Job Scheduler.

Argent World View integrates Argent Job Scheduler GUI and the Queue Engine functionalities into a single pane of glass.

Once installed, Argent World View can be browsed from anywhere as long as sufficient security and access rights are provided.

For a live demo site, visit http://WorldView.Argent.com

Centralized Job Scheduling

From a central scheduling server, Argent Job Scheduler can submit jobs to an unlimited number of servers where the batch jobs actually execute. All jobs on all servers regardless of platform can be viewed on the central console, which is also web-enabled. Any user – with the appropriate rights – on any workstation or server can view the central job scheduling console. With the powerful filtering capabilities, administrators, operators, and users can quickly and easily obtain customized views of their own jobs. From a central client GUI, jobs can be submitted to an unlimited number of Argent Queue Engine Servers including Windows, Linux, Unix, iSeries and other platforms where the batch jobs actually execute.

Queue Priorities: Critical Work Runs First

Up to 256 batch queues can be defined on a server where batch jobs execute. Each queue can have its own execution priority – customers can define one queue for high-priority jobs, another queue for intermediate priority jobs, and a third queue for low-priority jobs. Thus all jobs in the high-priority queue get CPU resources before all jobs in the other two queues. Each batch queue can run almost 33,000 jobs.

Argent Exploits SMP Architecture

Individual queues can be associated with specific processors in an SMP environment. For example, on an 8-way server, CPU-7 can be associated with a queue and the jobs in that queue will only use that processor. This facility gives you the performance of true load balancing, and makes the most of expensive and powerful SMP Servers.

Complete Work Load Balancing

Argent Job Scheduler provides complete server load balancing, whereby a job can be submitted to the server that currently has the lowest CPU load. This enables the most efficient use of hardware resources. Once defined, this load balancing is automatic and requires no manual intervention.

Total Job Dependency Support

Argent Job Scheduler provides full job dependency support so that complex job streams are easily created and managed. Automatic job failure retry permits job streams to restart without manual intervention.

Total File And ODBC Dependency Support

File dependency support enables a job to automatically start executing only after all the files required are present on one or more servers. Argent Job Scheduler also has full file dependency support for files located on FTP sites.

Uniquely Powerful Calendaring

Some businesses may start the fiscal year on July 1st while the U.S. federal government starts its fiscal year on October 1st. Employees may get paid biweekly or on a monthly basis. Regardless of the calendar, Argent Job Scheduler is easily customized to meet specific needs. Argent Job Scheduler is delivered with a number of pre-built calendars that can be customized to meet exact requirements. Creating calendars based upon fiscal years, manufacturing cycles, payroll periods, etc., allows customers the freedom easily to customize the product to best suit their organization.

Alerts You When Jobs Fail

Argent Job Scheduler in conjunction with Argent Console has extensive alerting facilities so the appropriate parties can be alerted when jobs fail. Alerts can be issued via email, alphanumeric pager, SMS, pop-ups, and beeper. Argent Job Scheduler also provides the ability to automatically resubmit failed jobs. Argent Job Scheduler is tightly integrated with Argent Console, resulting in customers benefiting from all the advanced console and alert escalation features of Argent Console when jobs fail.

Full Redundancy

An unlimited number of backup servers can be defined for Argent Job Scheduler so that if the primary job scheduling server fails or it loses its network connection, job scheduling continues on a backup server. Once defined, the failover process is automatic. Once the primary scheduling server is operational again, all processing reverts back to the primary server.

Reporting

Argent Job Scheduler has a full set of reports, enabling Operations Managers to create reports that run on a daily, weekly, monthly, or on an ad-hoc basis. In addition, projected load reports are also available that enable seeing the CPU and other resources needed to run the day’s jobs.

Uniquely Powerful Simulation

Argent Job Scheduler’s job simulation feature allows the quick simulation of when and how often jobs will run over a period of time. A simulation of a large block of time, such as a full day, can be performed in just seconds since the computer’s time is rapidly incremented.

Argent WorldView

Argent WorldView is a Web 2.0 product that integrates with all your existing Argent Job Scheduler installations

Argent WorldView serves as a primary web interface for Argent Job Scheduler; here are the benefits:

Customers no longer need to login to the server physically, or using remote desktop to see the status of jobs.
Overcomes the limitation on the number of users accessing the data through remote desktop
Seamlessly integrates the Argent Job Scheduler and Argent Queue Engine functionalities into a single web console
Once installed, Argent WorldView can be browsed literally from anywhere; provided you have sufficient access rights

Supporting Browsers: IE 9 and above, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Supporting Devices: Standard computers, Tablets, Smart phones

For a live demo site, visit http://WorldView.Argent.com

Argent Sentinel

Argent Sentinel is a comprehensive web URL and Server monitoring product from Argent

Below are important features and benefits of Argent Sentinel

1. End-To-End Web Monitoring:

Handles all known HTTP error codes
Check for one or more known error codes for each URL

Example: Check bad request error (400) for a specific URL
Example: Check unauthorized error (401) for a secured URL
Example: Check all HTTP errors for a home page

Benefit

Preconfigured error cases: Argent Sentinel has a list of all known HTTP errors

These errors can be tested across all licensed URLs

2. Root Cause Analysis And Correction

• Run WMI and Linux/Unix scripts if a web server is offline or slow
• Preconfigured scripts for checking system resources like CPU, memory, NIC traffic, etc
• Screenshot capturing

Benefit

Identify and correct the root cause of an issue without manual intervention

3. Load Testing For Web Sites Using Virtual Concurrent Users

Benefit

Stress testing of websites can be done using a user-configurable number of simulated virtual users

4. Robotic Web Testing

• Mimics user interactions
• Supports manual operations such as mouse clicks and keyboard input
Example: Automatically provides username and password to user’s CRM and login to authenticate user credentials

Benefit

Automatically run laborious, pain staking web testing which normally requires human interaction

5. Web Data Scraping

• Retrieves data from web pages and makes it available as variables in Script

Example: Go to finance.yahoo.com, retrieve Apple’s stock price, and alert if it crosses a threshold or store the stock price in Argent Predictor for Analytics

Benefit

Configure Notification Alerts based on data updated in websites

Can use Argent Predictor and Argent Reports for web-scraped data

6. Script Driven

Easy to understand, edit, and maintain

Benefit

Enhance a recorded Script with Argent APIs or customer’s APIs

7. Automatically Integrates With Existing Argent AT Installations

Benefits

Easy to install and upgrade; easy to prepare and configure infrastructure and environment
Exploit Argent AT Notification Alerts, Argent Console, etc

8. State Of The Art Development Tools

Headless (No Graphical User Interface) Chrome or Chromium browser works with lowest resource and is the fastest
Puppeteer (native API access to Chrome and Chromium) is the leading tool used for web automation

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent Sentry Ultra

Argent Sentry Ultra monitors websites, FTP sites, and email servers. It can identify website issues during development and after deployment in production. Argent Sentry Ultra integrates with Argent Console for flexible alerting and event escalation so issues can be dealt with promptly, even before the end user sees them. Argent Sentry Ultra’s flexibility enables customers the power to maintain any size environment and provides full reporting.

Argent Sentry Ultra also has fraud prevention techniques, checking for changes to web pages. Argent Console will then alert customers if any unauthorized modifications are detected. Customers have full control over which web pages are monitored.

Total Web Integrity

Total Web Integrity protects critical websites and intranets against all forms of attacks.

Total Web Integrity is based on a simple idea: a web property is really just a collection of files.

If these files are constantly monitored for hacker attacks and changes, the hackers are defeated.

Automatic restoration provides complete automation before, during, and after an attack.

Website Response Time Monitor

Ongoing response time monitoring is essential for reporting website performance at various times and for detecting problems with a website. Argent Console generates alerts if the response time slows to a specified threshold and the performance data can be saved for trend analysis.

Website Reliability

Improve website reliability by eliminating broken links and missing files. This feature traverses a website checking for broken links, missing images, etc. Argent Console generates alerts if any issues are found.

FTP Site Monitor

FTP site monitoring can be setup to check for specific files on the site and optionally test downloading the files. Alerts are generated by Argent Console if specified files are missing or fail to download. Alerts can also be triggered if a specified file exists on the FTP site.

Email Performance Monitor

Argent Sentry Ultra will monitor the email sending and receiving capabilities of a mail server and test round-trip email performance. The performance data can be saved for trend analysis. Argent Console can generate alerts if the email round-trip performance exceeds the specified threshold.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Connectivity

TCP/IP Ping
TCP Port Check
FTP, HTTP, HTTPS Service Availability
Windows Internet Connectivity API Check

Web Site Change

Web Page Changes
Hacking/Defacement Attempts

Web Site Response Time

Web Server Offline
Excessively Slow Pages

Web Site Reliability

Web Page Availability
Broken Links

Email Performance

Email Round Trip Test
Broken Links

FTP

FTP Download Test
FTP File Existence

Argent for Compliance

Government regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA are changing the ways companies do business worldwide. Argent for Compliance collects, scans, and consolidates all critical data from across the worldwide enterprise into one or more centralized SQL Server and/or ODBC databases, regardless of the hardware platform. Argent for Compliance can process data residing on Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, SCO, Solaris, iSeries, and SNMP devices.

Argent for Compliance is completely scalable, extremely robust, and provides a complete audit trail for management. Now, companies can effectively comply with audit requests and initiate internal audits in response to “keywords” and behavior uncovered with a searchable centralized database.

In today’s unstable world, it is not a question of need — all companies and organizations require the security of data archiving and reporting.
Argent for Compliance comes with out-of-the-box Instant Best Practice Reporting for the following critical compliance acts:

Australian Privacy Act – APA
Criminal Justice Information Services Act – CJIS
Federal Information Security Management Act – FISMA
General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR
Graham-Leach-Bliley Act – GLBA
Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act – HIPAA
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI
Sarbanes-Oxley – SOX

Click Here For Sample Reports
Additionally, Argent for Compliance provides many features to ensure customers stay compliant:

Proactive Monitoring

Instead of waiting for issues to occur, Argent for Compliance allows customers to keep an eye on events as they are unfolding
For example, monitoring if there are numerous, repetitive Event ID 529s or 4625s allows administrators to take action, ban a user or IP address before a brute force hack becomes successful
Similarly, monitoring Linux/Unix message logs, SYSLOGs, IIS logs, SQL Server logs, and iSeries logs for warnings can prevent catastrophes before they have the chance of reaching a critical point

With Argent’s 18 different Alert types and robust customization, customers can ensure they are notified well in advance

Data Archiving

All data relating to compliance needs to be retained with the capability of being analyzed.
With Event Logs (or any log for that matter), data bloat can become a major nightmare for daily backups, poor reporting performance, and just a general feeling that the data being collected is a complete mess to sort through
With Argent for Compliance, Security Logs are carefully and intelligently analyzed, and only the pertinent information is parsed into different fields in the database
The database structure has been carefully designed for maximum performance for reporting and minimizes the growth of the database

Instant Best Practice Reporting For All Compliance Acts

When an auditor arrives, Argent’s reports do the heavy lifting for customers
All reports are broken down by compliance act.
Reports can be scheduled automatically to provide administrators with full visibility on who, what, and where changes occurred

Scalability

Argent for Compliance has a true n-tier architecture, supporting from the smallest to the largest networks. Agents may be installed or all archiving can be done without installing any agents on the production servers; there is no difference in the price.

All common hardware platforms, such as Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, SCO, Solaris, and iSeries
Argent for Compliance can even archive the data from networking equipment like routers and switches.

Robust Design

Complete fault tolerance is engineered into Argent for Compliance to handle slow or erratic networks and hardware failures.
Trusted Agents can be replicated so if one server fails, another server immediately takes over the collecting, scanning, and consolidating of data.

Load balancing is provided to handle large amounts of data collection (in excess of 1,000 gigabytes per day).

Automation

Argent for Compliance has a built-in scheduler in order to optimize resource consumption. Customers can schedule data archiving in real-time, or only during the evenings, on the weekends, or at night, when network load is minimal.

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for Security

Argent for Security alerts you whenever an employee copies a file to a CD or mem-stick or any USB device.

The leaking of over 200,000 U.S. Top Secret files by a person who copied these files to writable CDs disguised as Lady Gaga audio CDs would have been prevented by Argent for Security.

You spend a fortune to block Russian hackers breaking into to your network, but the biggest threat is from disgruntled employees, as the Lady Gaga case chillingly shows.

There are a small minority of employees who are actively looking to steal your trade secrets — business plans, blueprints, compensation plans, sales projections and CRM databases — to sell to your competitors.

With the Internet, it’s simple to send money to Panama or other countries with opaque banking systems, and some of your employees today are looking at what they can steal from you. You only need one breach for your company to be put out of business or for you to be fired for “gross negligence”

Argent for Security guarantees the safety of all your servers and all your desktops.

Argent for Security installs in under 10 minutes and uses no dangerous kernel mode code and no dangerous device drivers — Argent for Security is safe and easy to use.

Argent for Security can optionally interface to Active Directory, or you can use Argent for Security as a free-standing product.

If you have compliance requirements such as Sarbanes, HIPAA, PCI, etc, then Argent for Security is a must-have: these strict compliance laws require you to be safe from external Russian hackers and also from internal disgruntled employees.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

CD/DVD Events

CD/DVD Media Loaded
CD/DVD Media Ejected

USB Storage Events

USB Storage Attached
USB Storage Detached

File/Directory Changes

File or Directory Created
File or Directory Deleted
File or Directory Renamed
File or Directory Modified

Event Logs

Audit Logs Cleared
Audit Logs Stopped
Hacking Attempts
Unauthorized Account Changes

System Management Scripts

PowerShell Scripts
WMI Scripts

Argent for Hyper-V

Argent for Hyper-V adds to Argent’s Single Pane of Glass technology and provides real monitoring of all critical aspects of Hyper-V, out of the box.

Details

Argent for Hyper-V monitors and reports on both Hyper-V Hosts and Hyper-V Guests, along with all Operating System baselines

Argent’s legendary alerting with 18 different types of alerts is fully integrated into Argent for Hyper-V.

Argent for Hyper-V comes with pre-defined SLA reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of Hyper-V.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Instant Best Practices for Hyper-V Hosts

Argent for Hyper-V monitors all the following critical parameters for hosts, out of the box:

Hypervisor Logical Processor

Guest Run Time
Hypervisor Run Time
Idle Run Time
Total Run Time
C1 Time
Total Interrupts per Sec
Context Switches per Sec

Hypervisor Virtual Processor

Guest Run Time
Hypervisor Run Time
IO Instructions per Sec
Total Run Time
Total Intercepts Cost
HLT Instructions per Sec
Emulated Instructions per Sec
CPUID Instructions per Sec

Hyper-V Hypervisor

Logical Processors Count
Total Bootstrap Pages Count
Virtual Processor Count
Hypervisor Partitions Count
Monitored Notifications Count

Hyper-V NUMA Node

Node Page Count
Node Processor Count

Virtual Network Adapter

Packets per Sec
Bytes per Sec

Virtual Storage

Write Bytes per Sec
Read Bytes per Sec
Virtual Storage Flush Count
Virtual Storage Write Count
Virtual Storage Read Count

Virtual IDE Controller

Write Bytes per Sec
Read Bytes per Sec

Root Virtual Processor

Guest Run Time
Hypervisor Run Time
Total Run Time

Instant Best Practices for Hyper-V Guests

Argent for Hyper-V monitors all the following critical parameters for different types of guests, out of the box:

Virtual Machine State Rules

Running
Stopped
Paused
Suspended

Virtual Machine Integration Service Rules

Time Synchronization Service Status Rules
Heartbeat Service Status Rules
Key-Value Pair Exchange Service Status Rules
Shutdown Service Status Rules
Volume Shadow-Copy Service Status Rules

Miscellaneous

Dynamic Memory Rules
Smart Paging Rules
Resource Metering Rules
VM Operational Status
VM Replication Rules

Argent for VMware

Argent for VMware provides Instant Best Practices for ESX/ESXi Hosts and all types of VM Guests.

With a vast array of Rules delivered out of the box, Argent is ready to monitor the entire VMware cloud the moment it is installed:

Datacenters
Datastores
Clusters
Resource Pools
ESX/ESXi Hosts
VM Guests – Performance Rules, Event Logs, Services, etc. for both Windows and Linux/Unix guests
VM Logs, Events, and Patch Versions
vMotion

VMware is everywhere.

And VMware is the most important Cloud Facilitator – VMware is what makes The Cloud a reality.

VMware makes all existing monitoring products obsolete – why use a product based around servers when VMware is now the center of your universe?

Old server-centric monitoring makes no sense.

Are you missing out on the technology needed for your company to stay in business?

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Instant Best Practices for ESX/ESXi Hosts

Argent for VMware monitors all the following critical parameters for hosts, out of the box:

Status and Connectivity

Datacenter Status
ESX/ESXi Connectivity
TCP/IP Pings
VMware Logons

Clusters

Cluster CPU
Cluster Memory
Cluster Status

Resource Pools

CPU Summation
Active Memory
Grantd Memory
Shared Memory

Datastores

Free Space %
Free Space MB
Datastore Visibility to Host

ESX/ESXi Hosts

CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Disk Usage
Network Utilization
Host Status
Version and Patch Levels
Host Hardware Failures
SSH Scripts

VM Events

Kernel Faults
Errors/Warnings
Startup Failures
Migration Failures
VM Creation/Removal
vMotion Events

vCenter

Idle Sessions
Client Out-of-Date
Client Uptime
Client State
Heartbeats
PowerCLI Scripts

Instant Best Practices for VMware Guests

Argent for VMware monitors all the following critical parameters for different types of guests, out of the box:

VMware Guest Performance

Active Guest Memory
Consumed CPU
Consumed Memory
Network Utilization
Overall Status

VMware Guest Storage

Disk Space %
Unused Provisioned Storage %

Windows VM

Windows Commands
Windows Performance Counters
Windows Services
PowerShell Scripts
WMI Scripts

Linux/Unix VM

SSH Logons
Linux/Unix Shell Scripts

Argent for XenServer

Argent for XenServer is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for XenServer is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure XenServer runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

Details

All versions of XenServer are fully supported.

Argent’s legendary alerting with 18 different types of alerts is fully integrated into Argent for XenServer.

Argent for XenServer comes with pre-defined SLA reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of XenServer.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Instant Best Practices for XenServer Hosts

Argent for XenServer monitors all the following critical parameters for hosts, out of the box:

XenServer Pools

Overall CPU Usage
Overall Memory Usage
High Availability Status
High Availability Failures
Workload Balancing
Future Hosts
Failover Plans
Over-Committed Status
Change Status

Storage Repository

Physical Size/Allocation
Virtual Allocation
Free Space

Hosts

CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Master Status
Host Alive
Host Status
Resident VM Status

Instant Best Practices for XenServer Guests

Argent for XenServer monitors all the following critical parameters for different types of guests, out of the box:

XenServer Guest Performance

Overall CPU
Overall Memory
Network Traffic
Virtual Disk Traffic

XenServer Guest Status

Crash Dump
Power State
VM Run Status

Operating System

Windows Performance Rules
Windows Services Rules
Windows Event Rules
System Down Rules
SLA Rules
PowerShell Scripts
WMI Scripts

Argent BoardRoom

With Argent’s patented BoardRoom technology, you can generate CIO and management drill downs out-of-the-box in minutes – Argent’s BoardRoom is easy, fast, and flexible.

Argent’s BoardRoom is delivered with an extensive portfolio of pre-defined Frames, and you can add as many new Frames as you like.

And only BoardRoom allows you to integrate web, intranet, and classical GUIs all on the same screen, so it doesn’t matter if you’re creating the CIO’s personal desktop, or a map of your worldwide operation for the 50 inch monitors in your Network Operations Center.

And Argent’s unique drilldown facilities means BoardRoom is more than just a pretty face – it’s the world’s first fully interactive Universal Media Presentation Manager.

Argent Commander

Argent Commander is an interactive, real-time facility based on Web 2.0 technology that integrates with your existing Argent Advanced Technology installation.

Argent Commander provides pre-defined “command modules” that report on key performance indicators, Top X charts and tables, as well as event and alert summaries for all the individual servers in your enterprise.

In just three clicks, go from macro to micro — drill down from an enterprise view to your individual servers and devices, to individual metrics and events.

Argent Commander fully integrates with Active Directory to provide maximum security and customization of rights and privileges.

For a live demo site, visit http://Commander.Argent.com

Argent Global Manager

Argent Global Manager provides web-based access and full control of all Argent AT and Argent XT products. Within the past decade, the web browser has become one of the most popular and functional access devices on the desktop in virtually all business environments. Whether it’s Firefox or Internet Explorer, a web browser is often the very first application opened when a user logs on to their computer each day.

In fact, because Argent Global Manager is fully compatible with all of the award-winning Argent products, customers can now create web-based business views of their entire enterprise.

For a live demo site, visit http://Global.Argent.com

Fully Secure Environment

Argent Global Manager conforms to the security settings within each Argent product, preventing unauthorized access to all Argent solutions.

Increased Flexibility

Web-based access to critical systems and applications results in an unprecedented level of flexibility to manage Argent products.

Increased Control

With virtually all of the functionality of Argent AT built into Argent Global Manager, customers never had so much control over their company’s critical applications.

Ease Of Use

Like all Argent products, Argent Global Manager is inherently easy to use; the web-based architecture makes it even easier.

Argent Reports

Argent has used industry-standard Crystal Reports in all Argent products for over 15 years

To help customers better leverage Web 2.0 in their use of Argent, Argent has created a new customizable reporting product, which we’ve dubbed “Argent Reports” (very imaginative, you say)

Argent Reports is a clean and crisp product you can use to instantly create your own reports

You can see a read-only version of Argent Reports at http://ArgentReports.Argent.com

Just think of it — a few clicks on a simple Web 2.0 template and you’re done

An easy-to-use but exceptionally powerful scheduler is built in so you can create your own Reports and Report Groups in minutes — no hassle, just automated productivity

For a live demo site, visit http://ArgentReports.Argent.com

Overview
What's Monitored

Argent for MySQL

Argent for MySQL is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for MySQL is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure MySQL runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

The most significant aspect of Argent for MySQL is the use of a number of different approaches to monitoring MySQL, unifying a centralized monitoring platform for MySQL running on all Windows or Linux/Unix systems. Think of Argent for MySQL as four or five discrete products all integrated into one super-product.

Details

Argent for MySQL monitors and reports on MySQL baselines, such as connection statistics, replication status, locks, cache hit rates and custom SQL queries.

Argent for MySQL integrates with pre-defined Argent Reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of MySQL.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

General Statistics

Database Instance Availability
Server Uptime
Total Connection Attempts To Server
Number Of Current Connections
Number Of Aborted Connections
Number Of Aborted Clients
Number Of SSL Client Connections
Number Of Threads Running
Number Of Threads Created
Number Of Threads Cached
Number Of Current Connections per User
Data Traffic Total Bytes Sent To Clients
Data Traffic Total Bytes Received From Clients
Binary Log Status
Replication Master Status
Replication Slave Status
Replication SQL Thread Status
Replication Slave Lag Rules

Performance Statistics

Number Of Table Locks Waited

Performance Statistics

Number Of Table Locks Waited
Number Of Slow Queries
Number Of File System Reads
Number Of Full Joins
Key Read Efficiency
Key Write Efficiency
Table Cache Hit Rate
Allowed Client Connections Usage
Query Cache Hit Rate
Database Size Usage
Database Available Free Space
INNODB Deadlock Detection
Number Of Temporary Memory Tables
Number Of Temporary Files Created
Percentage Of Temporary Tables Created On Disk

Custom SQL Query Rules

Query

Operating System

Service Level Agreement Rules
Windows Service Rules

Argent for Oracle

Argent for Oracle is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for Oracle is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure Oracle runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

Details

Argent for Oracle monitors and reports on Oracle baselines, such as blocked processes, long queries, table space, CPU, memory and more.

Argent’s legendary alerting with 18 different types of alerts is fully integrated into Argent for Oracle.

Argent for Oracle comes with pre-defined SLA reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of Oracle.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Storage Management

Data File Size
Data File Free Space
Log File Size
Partition Tables
Tablespace
Unchanged Passwords

Performance

Available Process Percentage
CPU Usage
Database Performance
Execution Times
Memory Usage
Parallel Query Server
Query Parse Times
Sessions
Shared Memory Usage
System Global Area (SGA)

Oracle Query Rules

Custom Queries
Long Running Queries
Session Statistics
Tablespace Used

General Rules

Bad File Count
Blocked Sessions
Control File Count
Database Mode
Datafile Offline
Logon Triggers
Object Names
Owner Counts
Parallel Processing
Process Count
Table Counts

Miscellaneous

Oracle Logon Checks
PowerShell Scripts
Linux/Unix Shell Scripts

Argent for SQL Server

Argent for SQL Server is more than just a monitoring solution — like all Argent products, Argent for SQL Server is a complete automation solution, automating all the essential but labor-intensive chores that all customers must perform to ensure SQL Server runs smoothly.

With all the layoffs, there are fewer people to do more work – this is why Argent’s unique Instant Best Practices is essential – who has the time to read White Papers?

The most significant aspect of Argent for SQL Server is the use of a number of different approaches to monitoring SQL Server: PowerShell, WMI, and classic Windows APIs are all used in different parts of the product. Think of Argent for SQL Server as four or five discrete products all integrated into one super-product.

Details

SQL Server 2000 through to SQL Server 2016 environments are fully supported.

Argent for SQL Server monitors and reports on SQL Server baselines, disk I/O rates, queue lengths, soft and hard page faults, and tracking logs – all within a single interface.

Argent’s legendary alerting with 18 different types of alerts is fully integrated into Argent for SQL Server.

Argent for SQL Server comes with pre-defined SLA reports that can be automatically emailed every morning to show the actual health and performance of SQL Server.

What are Instant Best Practices?

Instant Best Practices are Argent’s unique technology that combines the best expert knowledge into one fully-integrated solution.

All these tedious chores took you time and not to mention all the finger pointing from different vendors.

Rather than being a manager and looking to move up the food chain, you were stuck wasting your time doing the donkey work of trying to make yet-another badly written script work for your environment.

Argent Instant Best Practices – Ready For Tomorrow

With Argent’s unique technology, hassles are a thing of the past.

There are a lot of critical variables, thresholds, metrics and components you need to be on top of.

But there’s the rub – what variables should you monitor?

Even after you’ve read all the dozens of Technical Papers, Tuning Guides, downloaded all the scripts, you now have to decide what values make sense.

With Argent’s Instant Best Practices, all the donkey work is done for you – Instant Best Practices has all the critical variables and values defined.

In one click you can have Argent Instant Best Practices working for you.

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Backups

Database Backup Due Dates
Database Integrity Checks

Configuration Checks

Log and Data File Growth
Log and Data File Locations
Max Server Memory
Processor Cores
TempDB Space and Data Size
SQL Security

Database Statistics

Database Free Space
Transaction Log Size
Database Free Space
Fragmentation
Offline Databases
Transaction Log Shipping

Database Settings

Auto-Create Statistics
Auto-Shrink Options
Auto-Update Statistics
Page Verify

General Statistics

Login/Logout Per Second
Processes Blocked

SQL Statistics

Batch Requests
Re-compilation Ratios
SQL Compilations

Performance

Buffer Cache Hit Ratios
Page Life Expectancy
Checkpoint Pages
Lazy Writes
Free Pages
Memory Grants
Page Splits
Lock Waits
Deadlock Counts
Latch Waits
Memory Usage
CPU Usage
Disk Usage and I/O
Replication Latency
Concurrent Users

Queries

Custom SQL Query Rules
Blocked Queries
Runaway Queries

SQL Agent

SQL Job Status
Blocked Queries
Runaway Queries

OverView
What's Monitored

Argent for Sybase

Argent for Sybase provides the complete monitoring of aspects of Sybase ASE database servers.

Argent for Sybase monitors all the important performance indicators of Sybase ASE database server and notifies through Alerts, if the performance metrics are beyond a given threshold.

This helps the DBA to easily pinpoint the issues which affect the overall Sybase ASE database.

Argent for Sybase provides Rules for:

Sybase Capacity
Sybase Availability
Sybase Disk I/O
Sybase Kernel
Sybase Data Cache
Sybase Procedure Cache
Sybase Metadata
Sybase Database Usage\
Sybase Network
Sybase Custom Queries
Sybase Error Logs
Sybase Active Transactions
Sybase Wait Events

The following is a partial list of installed Rules. Out-of-the-box, Argent handles over 95% of your day-to-day needs.
Argent solves all your day-to-day problems — automatically.

Sybase Availability

ASE Logon Rules
Offline Engines
Blocked Sessions

Sybase Capacity

Active Connections
Connections Remaining
Connections Utilization
Connections Per Second
Locks Remaining
Locks Used
Locks Utilization

Sybase Metadata

Open Databases
Open Database Utilization
Open Objects
Open Objects Utilization
Open Partitions
Open Partitions Usage Percentage
Open Indexes
Open Indexes Utilization

Sybase Database

Database Count
Database Free Space
Transaction Log Free Space

Sybase Data Cache

Data Cache Searches
Data Cache Hit Rate
Data Cache Hits Per Second
Data Cache Space Used By Objects

Sybase Procedure Cache

Procedure Cache Hit Rate
Procedure Cache Size
Procedure Cache Utilization
Procedure Cache Space Used By Objects

Sybase Disk IO

Disk Reads
Disk Writes

Sybase Disk IO

Disk Writes
Disk Reads Per Second
Disk Writes Per Second
Disk IO Per Second

Sybase Kernel

Engines Online
Engine User Busy Usage Percentage
Engine System Busy Usage Percentage
Engine IO Busy Usage Percentage

Sybase Error Logs

ErrorLog Archiving
ErrorLog Monitoring

Sybase Active Transactions

Active Transaction Count
Long Running Transaction

General Statistics

Query Response Time Rules
Deadlock Detection
CPU Usage Of Currently Executing T-SQL Statements
Slow Running Query
Instance Uptime
Instance License Expiry

Operating System

Service Level Agreement Rules
Windows Service Rules
System Down Rules