SL Corporation® Announces Important Enhancements to RTView
Based Largely on Customer Requests, RTView Version 5.8 Boasts Over 100 New Features
Corte Madera, CA – December 7, 2010 – SL Corporation®, a leading provider of application performance management and component-level infrastructure monitoring software, today announced over 100 new features and enhancements to its RTView product lines, the majority of which were in direct response to customer requests. Key enhancements include:
- new REST web service interface provides alternative access to RTView data
- a new data compaction feature that condenses the history table of a cache for more fine-grained control and greater performance
- an enhanced cache data source that allows time-range queries to transparently access historical databases
- a new symbol library with 100+ pre-configured symbol images, as well as image import capabilities
“At SL, there is a lot of focus on gathering the top desired enhancements from our customers and delivering them in a timely fashion,” said Rodney Morrison, vice president of Products for SL Corporation. “RTView 5.8 has some extremely interesting new features that facilitate the creation and management of RTView solutions, open up the RTView platform to be extended into a variety of web application development environments, and significantly increase performance.”
New REST Web Service Interface Provides Alternative Access to RTView Data
This new REST web service interface can be used to access RTView data using standard REST protocol, and make it available to any type of web-based application. In this capacity, the RTView Data Server can now be used simply as a centralized way to gather, normalize and perform calculations on data from disparate sources, all in RTView’s internal memory caches and accessed by the REST interface. The REST interface can also be used to execute SQL queries against remote databases.
New Data Compaction Feature Condenses the History Table of a Cache for More Fine-Grained Control
A new data compaction mechanism has been implemented for the Cache Data Source. This feature condenses the history table of a cache by periodically applying a calculation (average, minimum, maximum, etc) to each column and storing a single result row in another cache table. This feature complements the Historian’s data compaction feature, which can be configured to compact rows in database tables as the data “ages.”
Enhanced Cache Data Source Allows Time-Range Queries to Transparently Access Historical Databases
The Cache Data Source has been enhanced to use SQL to extend the time range of a cache's history table. Now, a cache can be configured so that an SQL query will be used to transparently retrieve data from an external database if the time period specified in a data attachment extends beyond the range available in the cache's in-memory history table. This feature provides a convenient way to retrieve cache data that was stored in a database by the RTView Historian and use it on displays.
A New Symbol Library With 100+ Pre-Configured Symbol Images
A new Symbol Library has been added to the RTView Builder that includes 100+ pre-configured, pixel-oriented monitoring symbol images to choose from, with the option to import the user’s own custom images into the library. This helps to ensure standardized presentation of symbols and company branding elements across monitoring applications.
Enhanced Performance of Displays Containing Table Objects With a Large Number of Rows of Data
A new RTView Display Server option has been added to help improve the performance of displays containing table objects with a large number of rows of data. The option enables server-side table paging and sorting of the table data rows in a thin client, rather than sending all of the rows to the client at once. RTView manages all of the complexity of determining which rows are being displayed, and how those rows are sorted and navigated, significantly improving performance.
Additional features worth mentioning include:
- A multi-threaded display servlet provides significant improvements in performance when many users access the system simultaneously.
- The RTView Builder Indicator Palette has been enhanced, providing useful and commonly used indicator styles.
- A new converter enables automatic conversion of FX objects to an Apple®-supported format.
- Several alert enhancements and new command-line options.
The complete set of RTView 5.8 release notes detailing the over 100 enhancements to the product can be found at: http://sldownloads.sl.com/.hi/upload/rtv_qa/ERTV_rn_58c1.html. For more information regarding the RTView, please visit http://www.sl.com/products/rtview.shtml. To request an evaluation copy of any products in the RTView product line, please visit http://www.sl.com/products/downloads.shtml.
About SL Corporation
Over the past 25 years, SL Corporation has become the most knowledgeable and responsive provider of real-time monitoring, analytics, and visibility solutions. SL’s flagship product, RTView, addresses a broad spectrum of enterprise visibility challenges spanning application performance management (APM), business activity monitoring (BAM), and component-level infrastructure monitoring. RTView has also become the de facto standard for extending the visualization of TIBCO middleware, in-memory data grids, complex event processing (CEP) engines and custom applications. SL’s exclusive focus on real-time visibility solutions, commitment to customer success, and partner-centric culture are why thousands of industry leaders have chosen to work with SL to support their most critical applications and businesses. SL Corporation can be reached at +1 415-927-8400 or on the web at www.sl.com.
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