application discovery & mapping

If you don’t know what’s deployed in your application environment, how applications are interconnected, and how business is flowing through the system, you lack the basic information required for management and governance.

AmberPoint Management System discovers your application environment to provide a bird’s-eye-view across composite applications, making critical information available at a glance. Operations staff can use AmberPoint to identify their application topology, key components, network hotspots, etc. — the information they need to make better decisions when managing change within their environments.

AmberPoint Capabilities

Application Discovery
AmberPoint provides comprehensive capabilities to ease the lifecycle and configuration management burden on IT.

• Auto-discovers service components in every container
• Auto-discovers deployments and associated metadata
• Continuously tracks changes as service components are updated
• Classifies and manages containers and service components by lifecycle stage

Dependency & Business Transaction Discovery
AmberPoint provides end-to-end insight into applications to help manage dependencies.

• Continuous discovery of service dependencies and relationships
• Discovery of end-to-end business transactions
• No modification of messages or application code required

Network Visualization and Dependency Analysis
Rich visualization of dependency information to enable easy change/impact analysis:

• Displays logical and the physical dependences in an interactive, browser-based view
• Global dependency map across all services as well as local dependency map for individual services
• View aggregated dependences or drill-down to method-level interactions

Discovery Across Multiple Application and Technology Layers
AmberPoint's discovery capabilities extend across the entire stack, from client applications to the back-end system components, and across all types of message and transport protocols.

• Supports any type of distributed application, including SOA, Web services, Cloud, Web 2.0 and even home-grown applications
• Discovery of virtually any type of component, including hardware appliances, new transport protocols, and packaged applications
• Support for a wide range of application components, including databases, JMS and MQ messaging systems, EJB-based applications, and ESBs