ManageEngine Adds Synthetic Traffic Testing Tool

Called the Real Browser Monitor, the idea behind the new module is to give IT organizations a tool for simulating the performance of an application before actually deploying it. That approach, said Gibu Kurian, product manager for the ManageEngine's Applications Manager, allows IT organizations to first record that synthetic traffic and then play it back to analyze what is happening to various systems in real time.

The Real Browser Monitor, which is priced at $1,495 a year, is part of a suite of network and application management tools that is now used in over 400,000 IT organizations. ManageEngine, a unit of ZoHo, develops most of its tools as a result of the parents company’s need for sophisticated application and network monitoring tools.

But the ManageEngine tools typically only cost 10 percent of what rival offerings from BMC, CA, Hewlett-Packard and IBM cost, which in part explains how ManageEngine has been able to gain so much traction in the enterprise.