Use the links below to access tools that help in managing, analyzing, and ensuring scalability for your site. Web stress tools simulate a Web environment so that you can test your site under real-world loads. Site health monitors help you ensure reliability and performance of your site. Other tools assist in managing your system environment, analyzing performance, and supporting remote administration.
Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool: This tool is designed to realistically simulate multiple browsers requesting pages from a Web application. It is available for download at http://homer.rte.microsoft.com.
SilkPerformer: SilkPerformer is a web stress tool from Segue Software that helps you ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of your mission-critical applications. SilkPerformer simulates thousands of users interacting with Web, application and database servers with one script; creates the realistic models simulating different business environments for Internet, ERP and legacy systems; and provides a repository of information to easily analyze and report results throughout application development. For more information, see http://www.segue.com/html/s_solutions/s_performer/s_performer.htm.
Keynote Perspective™: This custom, outsourced service shows you, in real time, how your end users experience your web site—how fast it takes for them to access content or execute transactions from their geographic location. Automatic summary reports and immediate alarms via email or pager notify you when performance problems do occur, and robust diagnostic support is available right from your Web browser so you can quickly pinpoint and solve problems before they turn into customer complaints. For more information see, http://www.keynote.com/.
SiteScope: SiteScope goes beyond standard monitoring methodologies, and offers instead tools designed for deep monitoring. Deep monitoring ensures Web site reliability and performance. For more information, see http://www.freshtech.com/.
OnePoint Directory and Resource Administrator: This tool gives you unlimited relational-like views of your organization through ActiveViews, which allow you to create sets of user accounts, groups, and resources in a domain or across domains. For more information, see http://www.missioncritical.com/.
Xbuilder: Xbuilder helps you analyze performance of an existing site to assist in planning for upgrades by compiling an e-Commerce site and building dynamic pages into static HTML pages. For more information, see http://www.xbuilder.net/home/default.htm.
Carbon Copy: This powerful remote control and file transfer software package for PCs operates under the Microsoft Windows or Windows NT environment. For more information, see http://www.networkingdynamics.com/carbcopy2.htm.
LapLink: This tool provides you quick, easy access to your desktop PC or network resources when you’re working away from the office. Access and transfer files, synchronize data, run desktop applications, read and send e-mail, even support remote users—all with one application. For more information, see http://www.laplink.com/Default.asp.
pcAnywhere: This tool helps to make file transfers and remote access fast and easy. It provides enhanced Internet functionality by supporting a wide range of connection methods on the Internet and other networks, including TCP/IP connections and standard modems. For more information, see http://www.norton.com/pcanywhere/index.html.