Application Performance Management Essentials (APM200) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: SteelCentral AppInternals

  • Architecture overview
  • Critical concepts
  • Desktop console user interface
  • SteelCentral Web Analyzer integration
  • J2EE and .NET terminology
  • Multi-tier application architecture
  • Cross-tier transaction tracing
  • Transaction trace analysis
  • Performance tuning & memory analysis
  • SteelCentral Portal (RPM Dashboards) integration

Module 2: SteelCentral AppResponse

  • Products and features
  • Using the desktop console
  • Configuration best practices
  • Application discovery and definition
  • Deployment planning & installation
  • Using tables & charts
  • AppResponse insights
  • Gathering baseline information
  • Report generation
  • Configuring alerts
  • System administration tasks
  • Define & export packet traces
  • Integration with SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer

Module 3: SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer

  • Workflow and methodologies
  • Capture and import strategies
  • Planning application deployments
  • Generating reports
  • Troubleshooting and predicting application & network performance
  • Understanding delay components
  • Understanding parallel effects
  • User think time
  • Troubleshooting and predicting the impact of TCP on application performance