Monitoring applications on Windows 7

[CommunityUser]

Hey there,

I've installed and tried appdynamics with a controller installed on my Win7 and a standalone application (.NET) running on windows server and it works really great.

I'm wondering if it's possible to install a .NET agent on a Windows 7 machine (in order to monitor client side performance) I can't find any information and my attempt to install the regular .NET agent on my Win7 failed.

Since I post, i was also wondering if it was possible to follow a specific call (like client A calls a service B method which calls a service C method)

Thanks a lot for any piece of information!

Thomas

[CommunityUser · Accepted solution]

If the client is a web browser, you don't have to install an agent. Instead you can use our Web real user monitoring solution to get the information you want, complete with client to server side correlation of individual requests.

If the client is a Windows stand-alone application, then it becomes a "tier" in you AppDynamics application, and you can install a .NET agent on the Win 7 box and follow the correlation from that box to whatever services it connects to just like any other tier-to-tier interaction. In terms of Win 7 compatibility, I see the following in our docs page:

Requirements

The following Windows services must be enabled and running:

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC): MSDTC must run under the "NT Authority\NetworkServices" account. See "Verify MSDTC" on Resolve .NET Agent Installation and Configuration Issues.

COM+: See "Verify COM+ Services are enabled" on Resolve .NET Agent Installation and Configuration Issues.

Windows Management Instrumentation

I believe as long as these are running, the .NET agent should run on Windows 7.

[CommunityUser]

Hi rbaco, 

First, thank you for your answer. I've installed successfully my .NET agent on my Windows 7 machine, but I have not data from my winform application.

My company would use AppDynamics mainly for monitoring application client side. I'm talking winform application which calls WCF services. 

The ultimate goal would be to be able to find bottleneck client side when users experience problem not visible on services.

It looks like appdynamics only allows to monitor entrance point of an application (webmethods, WCF contract methods etc)

Could you tell me if I'm mistaken and if there is a way to monitor bottlenecks in a winform application with AppDynamics?

This would be my last question.

Thanks once again for your time.

Thomas

ps: Because it's an other question, i'll create a new post. Thanks