ITRS Group

Monitoring complex, high availability, high volume environments

You need a holistic view of your application and technology estate, not simply at an instrumentation metric level, but also at a business level interpreting the message transformations as they progress through the trade lifecycle.

The Geneos monitoring solution allows you to see and understand more at every level. At its heart lies a powerful combination of information collection and interpretation technologies that are key to the proactive monitoring of your business management systems and services. Between them, these technologies facilitate both business activity monitoring (BAM) and business transaction management (BTM) processes

Geneos - performance monitoring at every level

ITRS Geneos provides vital visibility in real-time and informs you of changes at a micro-second level in your technology infrastructure, business critical trading, risk and settlement applications. It provides out-of-the-box performance monitoring for critical trading infrastructures.

The Geneos environment has been built from the ground up with an in-depth knowledge of the appropriate data-monitoring points across complex trading, risk and compliance systems where high-volume, high availability and time-critical transactions are vital.

The whole trading infrastructure can be ready to monitor in days rather than months, with pre-configured monitoring interfaces and new system roll-outs instrumented in hours instead of weeks.

Powerful three-tier architecture

Geneos is based on a three-tier architecture to create this powerful enterprise-wide performance management and monitoring environment. It comprises of an:

• instrumentation tier
• analysis and consolidation tier
• visualisation and presentation tier

Meaningful alerts delivered to the most appropriate resource

The instrumentation tier is made up of customisable software agents known as NetProbes. These typically sit on all monitored system nodes and report back on their performance to the relevant Geneos Gateway. Meaningful alerts are then routed from the Gateways through email, SMS or PDAs to the most appropriate support resource.

Intuitive graphical interface

On the top tier the Geneos Workstation provides an intuitive graphical interface that allows operations staff to take corrective action. This is achieved by generating new rules and automated responses to create a self-healing environment or, alternatively, by setting Geneos to undertake initial diagnostics automatically.

It all adds up to a performance management and monitoring solution that evolves with your systems and can be rapidly deployed to provide a rapid return on investment.