Monitoring NAS

[CommunityUser]

Hello,

I'm new to AppDynamics, I downloaded a trial of the pro version and configured the controller and the .NET agent.

The flow map looks good excpet that our application utlizies a NAS while processing the transactions, and I would like that to be represented in the flow.

The NAS is simply a shared folder setting on a windows server and we sometimes get low disk and network performance from that.

Is there a way to get this NAS tier in the flow? and is there a way to monitor disk and network performance for that server? How can Appdynamics serve in this senario?

Thanks.

[Raunak_Mohanty]

Hi Imarud,

Can you share with a use case on how you are accessing NAS from the .Net application ?

You should be able to define custom exit points (http://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO14S/Configure+Custom+Exit+Points) to monitor any kind of .Net application's interactions with NAS

Above configuration whould help in extending the flowmap by showing exit calls to NAS.

Let me know if this does not address your query.

Thanks,

Raunak

[CommunityUser]

Hi Raunak,

Thanks for your reply. I'll look into the custom exit points and see if it works for us.

Basically the NAS is a windows server that has a shared folder that our .NET application writes and read files from directly through UNC paths.

[Raunak_Mohanty]

Sure Imarud. I think "Custom Exit Point" would be the perfect solution for your requirement.. All you would need to do is find that calss and method which makes exit call to these UNC paths.

You can actulally look into the snapshot of the Business Transaction to identify the proper class/method combination.

Let us know if you face any issues.

Thanks,

Raunak