Anacapa Software

NetScore Intelligent Agent
Demonstration

The following pages in this demo have live links that allow you to navigate through all the setup parameters and to view the response time charts and listings. The actual data shown in this demo was taken from previous real NetScore operations.


NetScore Intelligent Agent software is meant to be installed on a users PC . In this demo it was on a Windows 3.11 platform. It was then setup to generate various operations and transactions. Navigate around the demo by scrolling and clicking, to see how easy it is to setup NetScore and how simple it is to interpret the resulting data. This demo was setup to accomplish its operations every 60 seconds to a file server and several web sites, one a corporate intranet server. Click on Setup New Operation? to see the scripting choices available and how you might set up NetScore to monitor your users service levels.

Once each minute NetScore performed the background operations to these locations and recorded the round trip response times. The setup information determined threshold settings for marginal response time and for critical. When these were exceeded the graphic display bar chart so indicated by color. Red is below critical setting, yellow is between the marginal and critical settings and green indicates response time faster than either threshold.

The NetScore Main Page or Summary Page shows at a glance, what the service levels were to each location and operation. The last response time reading (Tc), the average, the minimum and maximum times are shown. Clicking on Details... next to the chart, takes you to a larger chart and a tabular listing of the results of each operation. Other links take you to a page for modifying setup parameters or to see information about that PC. You can view key system information about memory size, memory available, disk size and available space. You can view (though not edit) system .ini files, autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

The "Name" cell on the Main Page tables may be any descriptive alias you wish to setup. The demo of course, has pre named these. Try clicking on Setup New Operation? You can fill in the form to get a feel, but since this demo is not online it won't be operational.

The kind of data shown in this demo is available to network administrators via a standard browser from any location that has connectivity to any PC with NetScore Intelligent Agent installed. The administrator must of course know the IP address of that PC. If the PCs IP address is randomly assigned for each session then a means of resolving that assignment must be available (at least for that session). NetScore Intelligent Agent requires an IP stack (Winsock in the caes of a Windows platform) as does a browser, therefore even though the PC user might only rarely connect via IP, the stack will come up automatically when NetScore is started. It then performs the operations automatically and in the background with out user knowledge if you prefer.

One last point

Even though NetScore requires an IP stack it does not use IP to send operations to non IP resources. For instance it will send file i/o requests to IPX servers and clock the resulting round trip response time. NetScore works at the application level and is transparent to protocol. If the client PC has a path to a resource NetScore uses the same paths, links, routers, hubs, brigdges etc. No additional hardware or software is necessary.

A companion system, NetScore Surveillance Center is under development. It will collect data from many NetScore Intelligent Agents anywhere by polling them periodically for data accumulated. The resulting long term database will be key for baselining and modeling as well as a central point for setting up and controlling NetScore Intelligent Agents anywhere.

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