VMX-Capture uses probes to process and analyse data from network capture or sent by client applications in real time for performance analysis and fault diagnosis. Probes are positioned at Visibility Points.
We expect specific message types to take a pre-defined route through a network or application - such as the execution stack in a trading network - and we instruct Beeks Analytics to listen for these messages at the Visibility Points along this route and extract the information needed for analysis. This pre-defined route is called the Flow , and each flow is specific to a type of business object.
This data (both individual events and pre-aggregated statistics) is delivered to a set of Agent Points configured within VMX-Analytics, where further analysis (such as multi-hop latency analytics) is performed, and data is prepared for display in VMX-Explorer.
Agent Point
An Agent Point is an end point in VMX-Analysis that transforms business data events into the Attributes for a given Flow. The data comes from probes positioned at Visibility Points on the network. If needed, Agent Points can also be configured to retrieve Correlation IDs from independent sources.
Agent Points vs Visibility Points
A Visibility Point is a location on the network where data is captured from one or more Flows. Probes capture this data and pass it to a dedicated Agent Point for each Flow.