Category: Argent Encyclopedia

Argent Encyclopedia

The Argent Encyclopedia is the world’s leading independent source for all monitoring technology. Here you can find monitoring methodologies for all common products, both Microsoft as well as third-party products. If you need an additional encyclopedia created, please email ArgentEncyclopedia@Argent.com; there is no cost.

Argent Architecture Guide

This document discusses the various architectures available in Argent, and how Argent can achieve total monitoring with higher availability, failover, and load-balancing.

Argent Atlas Secrets

This Argent Encyclopedia is the quintessential guide to all of the powerful features of Argent Atlas, Argent’s open CMDB-X. The document covers everything from network discovery, network topology, and application discovery through to command-line and advanced import/export techniques

Argent Guardian Benefits

This document discusses the benefits of the Argent Guardian and its server/application monitoring capabilities.

Argent Hogs Benefits and Features

How can an administrator know who is consuming the bandwidth of the organization? How can the specific user and machine be determined? How can the consumption be classified into good and bad? How can applications or devices that are consuming most of the bandwidth be determined? Argent Hogs monitors and analyses network traffic by capturing […]

Argent Integration with Puppet

This document discusses the powerful command-line tools that Argent provides to integrate with all automation and configuration management software, including the venerable Puppet software

Best Practices with Argent

This document discusses the best practices of what to monitor using Argent’s patented and award-winning products.

Monitoring Java

This document discusses how Argent provides complete monitoring for all aspects of Java.

Monitoring Microsoft Clusters

This document discusses the various Microsoft cluster objects, and how Argent licenses and monitors all cluster components.

Monitoring SAP

This document discusses how Argent provides complete monitoring for all aspects of SAP.

Oracle RAC Monitoring

This document discusses how Argent provides complete monitoring for all aspects of the Oracle RAC environment.

Reporting Examples

This document demonstrates how you can use Argent Reports to create essential reports for trend analysis and capacity planning.

SNMP Overview

This document discusses how Argent provides complete monitoring of your SNMP-compliant network.

SQL Server Monitoring

This document discusses the best practices for monitoring performance and health metrics of SQL Server.

Synthetic Application Monitoring

This document discusses how Argent can simulate synthetic transactions to monitor the user experience of your critical web sites, as well as mimic database read/write operations for database application monitoring.

Total Monitoring for iSeries

This document discusses how Argent provides total monitoring for all aspects of iSeries, as well as a set of best practices for different stages of monitoring.

Unix Monitoring Overview

This document discusses Argent’s comprehensive monitoring and architecture for all the major flavors of Linux and Unix.

Weekly SLA Report Sample

This document is a sample weekly report that Argent generates for a large European bank. This report is bound and printed by Argent, and copies are sent by FedEx each Friday to arrive on the CIO’s desk every Monday morning. For more information, please email SLA_Reports@Argent.com