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Bristol Releases Enterprise Transaction Monitor
by Alex Woodie
Bristol Technology last week
announced the immediate availability of TransactionVision Standard Edition 2.0, the
latest release of its enterprise transaction monitor. TransactionVision uses message queue
technology to monitor performance and to help debug distributed e-business systems that
rely on messaging middleware, which joins multiple application and database servers,
including OS/400, OS/390, CICS, Unix, and Windows systems.
Enhancements in this release improve OS/390 and CICS monitoring capabilities, which
still run the bulk of the world's transactions. The securities-trading, banking, and
insurance industries are the company's primary target markets for TransactionVision;
however, the Danbury, Connecticut, company also considers the manufacturing and retail
industries as part of its turf.
Additional enhancements improve the software's method of setting rules to trigger alerts.
TransactionVision uses IBM's
WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries) message queue technology to send information
about an application's performance to a centralized repository. These information-
gatherers are called "Sensors", and they pull information from the application's APIs.
Sensors do not affect performance or require changes to the application's source code, the
company says, and they run on the OS/400, OS/390, Unix, and Windows platforms.
The centralized repository, called the Analyzer Console, stores the capture transaction
data, analyzes the transactions, and then presents the information graphically. Users can
employ various filtering mechanisms to sift through mountains of data and locate the
nuggets of needed information. Often this involves tracing transactions that become lost
(perhaps "misplaced" is a nicer word) in a company's ordering system. The Analyzer
Console runs on Windows NT/2000 servers.
Bristol officials say the company plans to offer a version of TransactionVision that uses
Microsoft Message Queuing
(MSMQ) technology at some point in the future. For more information about Bristol, visit
www.bristol.com.
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