Fluke Networks Unifies Performance Monitoring

That’s the premise behind version 6.0 of Visual Performance Manager from Fluke Networks. The Fluke Networks’ software started out as a tool that only network managers would use to discover how packets were behaving on the network. But over time, Fluke Networks has evolved the tool to the point where it can capture a wide variety of system management information that can be correlated with data gathered from across the network.

With version 6.0, systems management information can then be tailored into a specific presentation based on the role of the person within the IT organization. For example, network managers can get a detailed view of the network, while senior executives can use the tool to create a presentation that shows how a specific application is performing across the entire enterprise.

This creates an opportunity for IT organizations to consolidate the number of performance monitoring tools they have deployed to first save money, and then secondly create a common framework to help resolve performance problems without having to argue first over how the data is being acquired and presented.

With this release, Fluke Networks has also added a new IntelliTrace capability that allows IT staff to track the retrieval of a specific file as part of an effort to ascertain service level performance.