New release enhances capabilities of low-overhead Web services monitoring solution.
Boulder, Colorado— September 5, 2007 — Managed Methods announces the latest release of its solution for managing and monitoring Web service operations and SOA environments. JaxView version 3.5 adds agentless monitoring of SSL-encrypted service messaging to the products’ expanding list of SOA management and operational monitoring capabilities.
Architects, developers and IT operations managers working with Web services in production need visibility into the operation and service quality of XML-based services. Most solutions on the market provide a rich set of management features but require a significant investment of resources to implement them. Managed Methods has developed a unique Web services monitoring capability that can quickly plug into network infrastructure without the need to install messaging agents, modify service configurations, or change system architecture. This truly agentless solution also minimizes impact on the already high-overhead XML-based messaging traffic in the SOA environment. With the capability for monitoring of SSL-encrypted messages, Managed Methods has further enhanced security and flexibility in how JaxView can be deployed.
"Basically, other SOA management solutions on the market require the installation of messaging agents or the redirecting of message flows to pass through a service proxy in order to collect data." said Al Aghili, CTO of Managed Methods. "Solutions that use a proxy or service gateway architecture are called ‘agentless’ because the user doesn’t have to install agents on application servers. This kind of deployment usually requires modification of service addressing to send requests through the proxy. With JaxView’s agentless architecture, real-user Web service interactions are captured by listening to message traffic through a network connection. JaxView correlates the service messages and then records performance data, usage metrics, and other information."
"Our customers and prospects show a lot of interest in JaxView’s agentless deployment architecture." said Julie Cobb, Director of Sales at Managed Methods. "We hear architects and IT managers tell us how difficult it can be to deploy and integrate other SOA management solutions into their environments. JaxView offers them a solution that is very easy to install and quickly gives them the visibility they need into the operation of their production Web services. This agentless deployment can easily be fully operational in less than a day."
JaxView is the first Web services management solution that can auto-discover Web services and monitor real-user service messaging by simple integration with a network switch. This adds virtually no latency to request flow such as can occur with proxy-based solutions. This also minimizes network traffic overhead that is inevitable with agent-based deployments by eliminating the need to forward messages from agents to the management server.
JaxView provides IT development and management teams visibility into the operation of Web services including:
- Service performance metrics
- Operation throughput
- Fault message management
- SLA management metrics
- Client usage metering
- Message auditing
- Performance baselines for trend analysis
JaxView also provides automated alerting and reporting. JaxView’s single package design and affordable pricing model makes it easier to purchase and deploy, often without long budget approval cycles needed for higher-priced, distributed SOA management products. Managed Methods offers a 14-day trial of JaxView that can be downloaded from their Web site at www.managedmethods.com.
About Managed Methods
Managed Methods provides Web services management and runtime SOA governance tools focused on the needs of IT operations. We draw on over ten years of system management experience to build products that fit the dynamic pace and requirements of production IT environments. Based on open standards, our JaxView products are designed for ease of installation and integration into SOA environments. Nearly every aspect of JaxView, from integration, metric engine, alerting, data persistent, and aggregation, is customizable. Whatever stage you are in with your SOA implementation, JaxView can help you monitor, manage, and secure your Web services.
