Extensions and integrations to the basic system
In addition to having a scalable, distributed architecture, the basic system can be extended via advanced features and integrations with other products.
Advanced features
The product has the following advanced features so that you can do more with it than the basic system allows:
- CDN Visibility—Enables you to measure the performance of web applications hosted (in whole or part) by a content-delivery network (CDN). To achieve this goal, you must use resources included in the Web beacon toolkit.
- RIA Visibility—Enables you to measure the performance of applications that manage user interaction, display content without communicating with the server (for example, using Flash and Flex technology), and use the web primarily for data transfer. Such an application is sometimes known as a rich internet application (RIA). To achieve this goal, you must use resources included in the RIA Visibility toolkit.
- Real User Cloud Probe—Enables you to extend performance monitoring to applications deployed in the cloud. To achieve this goal, you must deploy a Cloud Probe on each server deployed in the cloud.
Integrations
To enhance its value in significant ways, you can integrate this product with other products.
- BMC Application Diagnostics—An optional bidirectional integration, BMC Application Diagnostics extends the ability of BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring to trace sessions, pages, and objects behind the web server (into application and data tiers, for example).
- BMC Atrium CMDB—This product provides a service-context dimension to monitored applications (or other monitored traffic segments), which means that you can pinpoint the configuration item (CI) associated with an application-performance problem.
BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time (BMC TM ART)—This product monitors the end-user experience by simulating an end user through synthetic (or robotic), script-based transactions.
This product can also be integrated with the following BMC products to enrich them with data related to the end-user experience:
- BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management via the BMC PATROL Knowledge Module for Real End User Experience Monitoring and via the BMC End User Experience Management and BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Event Integration Pack
- BMC Service Level Management via the BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring plug-in
You can also use the data-export and configuration APIs available in this product to integrate it with business-intelligence and reporting products, management solutions, and custom applications.
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