Essentials

Silk Performer Monitor Workbench (Silk Performer) provides a GUI that allows for the specification of name-value pairs that enable the testing of script parameterization. Such scripts can be uploaded directly to applications such as Performance Manager to instantiate new business transaction monitors. This capability provides immediate use of script parameterization and lets users reuse uploaded projects with different input values.

Silk Performer projects can be uploaded to Performance Manager and saved as Essential. Such projects become available as business transaction monitors for all Performance Manager projects — and Silk Performer project attributes act as customizable variables.

With the functionality of Silk Performer — and the ability to reuse, customize, and integrate projects with Performance Manager — Essentials offer a wide range of possibilities, allowing you to:

• Monitor applications, servers, systems, and networks.
• Scan for security problems.
• Take corrective actions on remote (server) systems:
  • Restart systems and processes.
  • Manipulate directories, files, and services. For example BDL, VBScript, Shell (Rexec, secureshell), FTP, LDAP, and others.
• Send notifications:
  • Activate pagers through a proprietary HTTP based pager service.
  • Forward alerts to enterprise management systems.
  • Send custom emails with attachments.
• Spawn and control other programs.
• Collect business metrics:
  • Integrate with ERP systems, for example gathering revenue numbers.
• Perform verifications:
  • Web business transaction verification.
  • End-to-end monitoring.
  • Usability checks.
  • Complex service target validation.
  • HTML syntax conformance.
• Perform root-cause analysis:
  • Special “on-demand” tasks, for example after receiving a Performance Manager alert, an administrator may wish to run HTTP traceroute to check network connectivity.
• And more...