Monitoring With Tmt - Insight Into Distributed Systems

TMT is a Test and Monitoring Tool for distributed systems. Despite of their complexity these systems generally have to fulfill two key requirements near perfect availability and provision of functionality delivered within predictable time. A major development problem is the tracking-down of hard-to-find, sometimes sporadic failures and the verification of correct operation.TMT addresses this problem. If has a graphical monitoring front-end that visualizes system internal registration, communication and synchronization events based on recorded traces. Sophisticated monitoring and testing functionality helps to detect errors in the sequence of events and to verify correct behavior. TMT employs a flexible concept of tracing backends that allows automated tracing for the middleware standards ((D)COM/CORBA/Java RMI) as well as instrumentation for proprietary systems. Thus, TMT can be applied to the entire spectrum of distributed IT and embedded systems. TMT has already proven ifs benefits in several Siemens in-house projects.