Technical Papers

As the nature of real-time information has evolved, the requirements for analysis and visualization of data have become more complex and sophisticated. There are key lessons to be learned from the process control industry’s decades of experience in dealing with real-time mission-critical data. This whitepaper discusses how lessons can be taken from traditional process monitoring applications and applied in today’s more complex multi-dimensional environments in order to deliver more effective and successful Business Activity Monitoring solutions for the enterprise.

There are many sources of information about best practices using JMX, focused primarily on common usage conventions and design patterns. However, the use of JMX in custom application monitoring systems brings with it an array of unique challenges involving the aggregation, analysis, and visualization of real-time data. This paper discusses practical issues regarding data content and design of MBeans for optimal use in such systems. Some commonly overlooked requirements are explored and recommendations made for minimizing client-side development efforts.

In today's large scale business IT departments, a new class of problem has emerged, which is not solved by traditional infrastructure management products. The need to monitor and control complex integrated applications and huge data flows is increasingly important as dependencies on the systems grow.

SL-GMS is known worldwide as the most complete, high performance dynamic graphics system available for real-time monitoring and control applications. SL-GMS is widely used in various industries such as process automation, network monitoring, power distribution and traffic control.