The Monitoring Agent

What is The Monitoring Agent?

The Network Performance Monitoring Agent

Introduce a key player to your team

Think of the agent as your network administrator

The Monitoring Agent is unique software we've developed to help you seamlessly measure network and application performance and availability

Four types of The Monitoring Agent are available.

All agents offer the same features to ensure easy deployment.

Software (Linux and Windows)

Hardware

Public

Virtual appliance (Hyper-V and VMware)

What can the agent do for you?

Device Monitoring

System/Network Monitoring

Cloud network monitoring

The Monitoring Agent is software

The Agent is software that we developed to measure the performance and availability of the network and applications. Four types of agents are available and they all have the same features. This ensures that deployment is easy, no matter where you want to increase visibility and monitor performance. This includes Public Monitoring Agents that are managed by Obkio on public clouds such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Visibility from the end-user perspective with The Monitoring Agent

By running performance tests directly from headquarters and branch offices, agents measure network and application performance as if they were real users. The exact location within the network may change depending on the architecture of the network. In some cases, the Agent is installed near the firewall to monitor ISP (WAN) performance and in other cases at the edge of the LAN network for a complete end-to-end performance monitoring solution.

Install and forget

Typically, Agents are installed in the same location where users (Headquarters and Branch Offices) and IT infrastructure (Data Centers and Cloud Environments) are located. In most cases, only one agent is needed per site, but many can be installed on large campuses for more visibility. Once installed, Agents receive their settings and software updates from the cloud platform without any user interaction. Facilitating monitoring is the agent's number one priority.

Distributed deployment

Now, companies that use SaaS and cloud service that are no longer hosted in a centralized location. This new architecture increases the pressure on IT teams to correctly and accurately monitor the performance and availability of services across all their locations. To simplify the process, agents run tests from all of their connected locations to provide a more distributed network monitoring solution compared to traditional centralized monitoring solutions.

Continuous Monitoring

Whether you're using them for Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) or Application Performance Monitoring (APM), agents are always working hard. With The Monitoring Agent continuous network monitoring, the agent gives users more visibility into performance issues that are often intermittent and difficult to identify. Get notified immediately when there's a problem or check past performance data to understand what happened after an incident.

Zero Impact

Because The Monitoring Agent is not online on the network, but installed as terminal devices, its installation and use does not affect IT operations. In addition to fully configurable speed tests, Agents do not perform stress tests on the network or applications. Performance tests performed by the Agent simulate the normal usage of a single user, which means there is no impact on IT operations. In addition, the installation does not require any port mirroring or traffic capture, which can cause privacy or confidentiality issues.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS