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Making Applications Behave In Production Environments


Wily, PATH introduce management tools for 'live' apps

By David Rubinstein
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February 15, 2003 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Claiming that software testing falls short once an application is placed into a live environment, two companies-Wily Technology Inc. and PATH Communications Inc.-late last month released products into what is being called the application behavior management space.

Wily released version 4 of its management solution, which includes Introscope version 4 and two new extensions to Introscope-Transaction Tracer and Leak Hunter. Transaction Tracer brings visibility to transactions down to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) level, according to Lew Cirne, founder and CTO of Wily (www.wilytech.com), while Leak Hunter is designed to help IT teams find memory leaks in production applications.

"There are lots of tools that help developers develop, test and deploy, and there are lots of application monitors," said Mike Malloy, marketing communications vice president at Wily. "Now, developers are told by systems management that the app isn't running right and it's your problem; you figure it out." Wily's new tools, he said, give developers the specific details they need to fix problems because they're running on the app in a live production environment, not on a desktop or in a QA lab.

"It's so difficult and expensive to replicate a production environment in a staging environment, that folks reboot systems on a frequent basis just to avoid having to deal with a leak problem," Malloy said. "That's not real good systems management. What you're doing is destroying quality of service. Your availability goes into the low 90s, and if you have a 24/7 critical app, that's unacceptable."

Meanwhile, PATH has released version 3.5 of its Path Application Manager (P.A.M.), which utilizes intelligent agents to recognize patterns of behavior in software and anticipate failure, according to Oded Noy, co-founder and CTO of PATH (www.contactpath.com).

"We're getting into an area where applications are so intertwined that things occur [in the application] that never happened in testing. What we do is really a software MRI," Noy said.

The P.A.M. solution includes Examiners, which are the intelligent agents-discrete Java applications-that can be placed on multiple servers to take snapshots of applications when they are running, looking at throughput, responsiveness, resource utilization and XML parsing, among other things. These snapshots then are processed in a central server, which establishes a pattern of behavior for the software.



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