powerStress

Lantares

Overview

Companies need tools to help monitor and test the workload of mission-critical systems, to optimizes service levels and ensure accurate infrastructure sizing. powerStress is designed to provide accurate assessments of these systems during software implementation processes, as well as perform workload tests to assess future performance.

The system is specially designed to perform stress testing in a business intelligence environment. It is completely integrated with Cognos platforms (IBM Cognos Series 7 and IBM Cognos 8 BI). It is developed with Cognos SDK and Web Services, so integration is simple and fast. And it has the ability to modify those parameters for monitoring and measuring.

Every Cognos project demands the right hardware environment, so Cognos customers should consider purchasing powerStress for stress testing. The solution as designed for large and small businesses in any industry.

Benefits

  • Platform sizing: A key aspect of any software project is to size precisely the platform and the environment. powerStress allows you to simulate the workload of each process, create several scenarios, and reproduce problems before they appear, so you can asses and recommend the best platform.
  • Guarantee response times: You can simulate the workload for the total number of users you will have in production, and estimate the average response time per user within your hardware environment.
  • Anticipate performance issues: By periodically stressing your systems, you can simulate new requirements for more reports, users, data, or complexity. This allows you to guarantee the adaptation of the current platform to changing needs.
  • Predict response times: Simulating workload stress situations allows you to predict response times and evaluate upfront if you need to upgrade your systems .

Features

  • Developed with the Cognos SDK
  • High performance
  • Web-services enabled
  • The workload is configured for these parameters: number of users, volume of reports, data volume, simultaneous (asynchronous)
  • Analyze different (configurable) metrics: Memory Used per Process, Memory Pages, % CPU, CPU Time, Time per Process, I/O Bytes

Architecture

  • powerStress is completely integrated with Cognos platforms
  • Multi remote asynchronous Windows client
  • Microsoft .Net Framework enabled
  • Scripted scenario configuration
  • Windows and Unix support
  • powerStress modules:
  • Repository : Audit logs (flat files or db)
  • powerMonitor : This is installed on the server, and provides the client console with instant performance metrics.
  • Client Console : This administrator’s application is used to design the stress testing workloads, launch the processes, and monitor them.

Availability

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