The 3 metrics of Alaloop portal

The Alaloop portal is open to standard market instruments in order to guarantee our customers the scalability needed for the construction phase of their dashboards.

The portal supports more than 100 tests that cover the standard measurement needs of most network devices, servers and applications. New tests can be quickly integrated into the framework of our project approach. The catalog of instrumentation supported by our portal is regularly updated. It is available for our customers upon request to the CSC.

1. Performance tests: validation of SLA

Measurements expressed in TIME (min, sec, ms)
A performance test is called OPERATION
Measurement done by AsA Agent (software / hardware / built-in portal)

Sample tests

Network

PING (delay, error rate)

IPSLA (Delay, Jitter, MOS, error rate)

IP Services

(Test access)

DNS, LDAP / Active Directory

FTP

Netbios

Telnet

HTTP, HTTPS

ICA (Citrix)

IMAP, SMTP, POP

SMB

SQL Services

SSH

VNC

TCP port ...

Applications

(Application request)

DNS

LDAP / Active Directory

NTP

POP (SSL)

FTP

TELNET

SFTP

SSH

HTTP / S (URL test)

SMTP

SIP (Call Manager ToIP)

SQL (Request)

Scripts

(Application using)

Web

Web Services

SIP (ToIP)

Any Windows application

SAP (*)

Web application script (or RIA)

Script for Web Services : SOAP, REST or JMS

XML Script for any SIP sequence

Keyboard input, mouse and display control with OCR

e-CATT script

2. Load & health testing: capacity planning for critical ressources

Collection of counters (unit : PERCENTAGE)
A load test of a resource is called a QUERY
Collecting SNMP / MIB, Web Services / WMI, Specific Plugins

Sample tests

Network

Standard devices

Acceleration/WAN Compression

Other

WAN & LAN (routers, switches)

Cisco (CBQos, NBAR, ...)

Cisco WaaS Central Manager

TCP Statistics

Bandwidth In/Out

One Access (Qos-Mib)

Riverbed

UDP Statistics

Errors In/Out

Bluecoat Packeteer

Active Directory (*)

Operating systems

& virtualization

Linux, Aix(*), Solaris (*), Windows,

VMware (ESX/ESXi)

CPU, memory, disk, Process..

CPU, memory per process

Mediation

Proxy

Firewall/ VPN

Squid

Cisco - ASA

Bluecoat Proxy

Checkpoint

ISA (*)

Applications

Messaging

ToIP

Databases

Application servers

WEB servers

Analytics

Lotus-Notes

Asterisk (*)

Oracle (*)

JVM

Tomcat

Apache Web Server

Google Analytics

Exchange (*)

Cisco Call Manager (*)

MS-SQL Server (*)

Websphere

Jboss

IIS (*)

Xiti (*)

Postfix

MySQL (*)PostgreSQL

Weblogic

Oracle Application Server (*)

3. Traffic analysis : "best practices" follow-up

collecting traffic information from any Netflow/IPfix compatible probe;
an analysis point is called PROBE

Sample analysis

TOP REPORTS: identify the main traffic
- Top Talkers
- TOP APPLICATIONS / SERVICES
- TOP SITES

CUSTOM REPORTS: Monitoring business traffic
- Definition of analysis filters for some specific applications
- Comparison and / or monitoring of critical traffic