"Easy installation, concise IP information, excellent graphic analysis, and a trace facility, to boot. ServicePilot's NBA for z/OS presents all the network monitoring and diagnostic capabilities most of us will ever need."
(Technical manager of IT Operations & Infrastructure at one of the nation's largest pharmacy healthcare providers)
ServicePilot NBA for z/OS provides end-to-end IP and application performance monitoring for the z/OS environment. It captures real-time traffic flows, analyzes and alerts on abnormal behavior (bad application response time, bandwidth consumption, etc.), and detects malicious traffic on the enterprise network.
This innovative tool uses Deep Packet Inspection technology. It correlates and consolidates complex transactions into intuitive reports with the ability to drill down into detailed statistics.
Application Performance
ServicePilot NBA for z/OS enables IT teams to measure, analyze and maximize in real-time an application’s performance. It profiles and analyzes the typical behavior of an application and the underlying network. If there are any meaningful changes in application behavior and usage patterns, NBA for z/OS will pinpoint a potential problem and automatically inform the IT staff of its most likely cause, thereby reducing the time to resolution.
Real-Time Intrusion Detection
By adding ServicePilot NBA for z/OS to other security technologies, IT staff can have security oversight across the enterprise network with true, real-time feedback of the status. NBA for z/OS alerts and advises key security personnel when unauthorized devices or activities. Using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, ServicePilot NBA for z/OS looks for a pattern within a packet from a defined point and triggers a response according to the search result. It detects suspicious connections and analyzes network traffic to determine similarities with a defined set of rules, and generates real-time alarms.