Overview

XRatel Performance Suite is a complete system monitoring solution, covering networks, computer servers and workstations. XRatel Performance Suite allows users to access from any computer in the network powerful and meaningful real-time and historical graphics, generate and register alarm and events, log and automatically send e-mail messages. It is easy to install and configure and there is no need to use local agents or data providers. It joins in the same product high performance, flexibility and reliability.

Network Monitoring

XRatel Performance Suite monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage as well as many other network parameters like error rates, collision rates, etc. You can also monitor many other aspects of managed switches, printers, and other network components as long as they are SNMP enabled. Generating many KPIs, such as device's overall performance and Network Health, it provides valuable information for system administrators to optimize the efficiency, layout and setup of WAN and LAN links, routers, servers and other network components. It also monitors the downtime and access time of unmanageable devices.

Computer Monitoring

XRatel Performance Suite also monitors MS Windows computers using WMI technology (local or remote monitoring), providing the necessary information for system administrators to manage computer servers and workstations. It can get from a computer more than one million different variables, including:

• many performance counters such as disk usage, memory consumption and CPU load
• hardware information such as cooling fan speed and memory bank status
• operational system information such as running version, installed updates, registry entries and logged users
• application specific information, if it is available (depends on the application).

Users can create custom probes that calculate any expression involving WMI variables and predefined probes are automatically generated, as the health probe, which expresses the overall status of a specific computer. Support for non-MS Windows computers is also available.

High End Architecture

XRatel Performance Suite has been built using a multi-threaded core and an optimized data sampling algorithm, providing high performance operation. All historical data is stored in a built-in database engine, and an external database is not required. It also uses a client server architecture that lets you have as many monitoring stations as you want connecting to the monitoring server. You can also connect to XRatel monitoring server using any OPC DA client, giving even more flexibility to your Network Management System. XRatel Performance Suite gives the user a flexible and reliable solution to monitor critical mission networks, servers and workstations, even if you have a large sized application or environment. It was designed to meet all business, office and industrial requirements.


Application example

Performance Data

Raw SNMP and WMI data can be difficult to analyze. XRatel Performance Suite gathers raw data from devices and continually performs statistical calculations to generate useful performance data, such as bandwidth utilization, error rate statistics, memory and disk utilization and computer/network health. End users can quickly summarize the status of their network and servers by using XRatel Performance Suite predefined probes. The Health Probe calculation is based on leading indicators for the entire network or computers and XRatel Performance Suite allows the user to easily establish the importance of each indicator.


Application example

User Defined Probes

Users can also create user defined probes that calculate custom expressions. This feature gives much more flexibility to the product, allowing new probes creation using either WMI or SNMP raw probes or SNMP traps.

Server Configuration Screenshot

Devices Hierarchy

XRatel devices hierarchy system gives the IT administrator total flexibility to reflect in the monitoring environment the network's topology, the geographic distribution of its servers or any other grouping aspect of its system.

After network scan, the devices list can be easily handled, making possible groups creation or configuration of relationships between groups. Complex topologies can be represented, as long as groups of servers by function (database, application, e-mail, etc.) or by manager.

Server Configuration Screenshot

Probe Explorer

XRatel Performance Suite Probe Explorer is a powerful tool for data visualization, monitoring, analysis and management.

Probe Explorer allows the user to access from any computer in the network the data available through XRatel Performance Suite Server. It is able to generate powerful and meaningful real -time and historical graphics. Powerful scooters let you navigate through values, showing the current value for each chart point, even if you are monitoring a string variable. Various 3D resources also help user with data analysis.

Probe Explorer Screenshot

Health Analyst

Health Analyst is a graphic module for viewing the health of devices, network links and the overall system. Health Analyst automatically gets from XRatel monitoring server the system's device hierarchy and shows, for each monitored equipment or network link, the health trend on the last hour, day, week or month. It also shows the same trend of each health component, making fault analysis work easier.

The health analysis of an equipments' group, of a network sector or even the entire monitored system is within arm's reach. An event area allows tracking last alarms announced by the server, also helping with the monitoring work.

Health Analyst Screenshot

XRatel Reports

XRatel Reports provides to the user the ability to generate customized html reports, with valuable information about each probe considered. The reports can be put available at any web server, giving access to all information monitored by XRatel through any browser. For that, the user selects the variable and some parameters, getting access to the charts for that probe and its main statistics, including minimum, maximum, average values and the availability of it on a specific timeframe. The reports can be created on demand or scheduled with many recurrence options.

Configuration

The software configuration is made very simple with the embedded configuration wizards for the Server Configuration. The Scan Devices feature automatically retains IP address, determines IP range and scans the network. User can also manually set IP scan range. After this, predefined probes are automatically scanned and the Server is updated. There is another wizard in Server Configuration that helps you create custom expressions for User Defined Probes.

Features

• OPC DA Server 2.0 specification compliant
• Support for WMI and SNMP V1, V2c and V3 versions
• Support for SNMP traps
• Import/Export for system configuration and user profiles
• Automatic scan of network for WMI and SNMP devices and objects
• Automatic predefined probes generation for the network and its computers
• Easy-to-use configuration wizards
• Optimized for high performance real-time data monitoring
• Alarms/events monitoring and email message generation
• Reliable historian server with number and string variables storage

Product Technical Support and Upgrades

XRatel Performance Suite 5.0 includes free upgrades for new releases within 01 (one) year after license purchase. After this period, you must contract XRatel SMS (Service, Maintenance and Support) for XRatel Performance Suite to receive upgrades.

XRatel Performance Suite 5.0 also includes free technical support within 01 (one) year after license purchase. After this period, you can use our Knowledge Base, Users Forum or FAQ. You can also contract XRatel SMS to continue receiving technical support from our team.

Note: For the license types in which XRatel SMS is not available (up to 10 and up to 50 probes), free E-mail support will be available within 90 (ninety) days after software purchase. After this period, only other support resources will be available, such as User Forum, XRatel FAQ, Online Manuals and Knowledge Base.