System Shepherd®
A Robust IT Performance Monitoring and Operations Management Platform
All of our offerings rely on System Shepherd® -A robust cost-effective IT performance monitoring and operations management platform that has been proven in real-world environments over the past 11 years. | |
- Collects extensive performance metrics from a variety of monitored systems
- Provides a single repository for data and events from throughout your IT stack
- Delivers an enterprise-wide view of system performance and alert status
- Provides visibility into your end user’s experience
- Automatically alerts the appropriate IT resources of potential problems
- Enables graphing and correlation of metrics across systems and applications
- Supplies analysis and reports based on real-time, recent, and historical data

Technical Summary
System Shepherd® supports the performance monitoring of the following application and infrastructure software.
Please contact Absolute Performance if you don't see your software or technology listed here.
| Application Software | - API calls - Web Services - GET/SET - Web page content verification - Txn validation - Database queries - Command parser - Custom application metrics |
| Web & Application Servers | - Apache - Tomcat - ColdFusion - Microsoft IIS - JBoss - MQ Series - OneWorld - WebLogic - WebSphere - .NET - PHP |
| Database | - MySQL |
| Operating System | - Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/2008/Vista - Linux - HPUX - AIX - FreeBSD - Solaris - Irix |
| Log Management | - Syslog - Eventlogs - Log parser - Log rotation - Regular expression filter |
| Virtualization | - VMware ESX - Citrix and open source XEN - Parallels Virtuoso - Microsoft Hyper-V |
| 3rd Party Applications | - MS Exchange - Handysoft Bizflow - Lawson |
| Network Routers & Switches | - Cisco - Foundry - Extreme - F5 - Nortel |
| Security: Firewalls, VPN, SSL-VPN | - Cisco - Juniper - Fortinet - Neoteris |
| Remote Access | - Cisco - Citrix - Nortel |
| TCP/IP | - DNS - SNMP - SMTP - PING - TRACEROUTE - NSLOOKUP - others... |
| System Shepherd® is a template-based Agent software with a lightweight 6-26MB memory footprint. It is fully remote configurable, but communicates with its monitoring portal (its backend) via SSL protocol, using only outward-directed messages. | |
