Monitoring network services
The NetProfiler defines a service as all clients, servers, applications and ports involved in the end-to-end delivery of a network service. A service is composed of one or more service segments that can be monitored, reported and alerted on individually.
Each service segment comprises a client component, a server component, and the applications and ports in use between them. The components are groups of user or server machines. The applications and ports in use between components are treated as connections.
Information about services can be displayed on the dashboard or in the service reports. As part of defining a service, you can select performance metrics to be monitored for the service. This automatically creates policies that can detect and alert on excessive changes in the values of the monitored metrics.
Alerts are displayed on the service dashboard and in service reports. Service reports also indicate trends and provide comparisons and summaries.