B-hive Conductor provides Data Application Owners with a new ability to view and analyze user transactions as they take place - and to take action if performance is not up to standard.

B-hive Conductor is a transaction router that resides within the data center network. With unique Apprehend™ self-learning technology, Conductor identifies user transactions and enables IT groups to monitor, analyze and control operations. While leveraging existing investments in infrastructure and tools, B-hive Conductor optimizes the availability, performance and application resource allocation of web-enabled transactions.

To obtain an integrated, meaningful picture of current conditions from the end-user perspective, you need an in-depth understanding of the transactions taking place. B-hive Conductor makes it simple with Automatic Transaction Mapping. It analyzes the traffic that flows between end-users, web applications, and back-end servers, and creates a graphical map of the different transactions occurring in the data center.

Conductor performs analysis at multiple points along the transaction path, and correlates the information to provide a coherent picture of multi-tier transactions. Conductor then provides real-time alerts about transaction-level performance and availability problems.

With B-hive Conductor, you can map transactions to business policies. Working from the unique graphical interface, you can analyze baselines, and define priorities and execution targets such as latency, availability, error rate and load.

Conductor monitors transaction execution and alerts to service level problems such as application module and server infrastructure failures. It also monitors network problems, ineffective resource allocation, performance events and service-level breaches.

As an intelligent transaction router, B-hive Conductor provides an effective, timely response to the problems it identifies. Conductor's real-time control features include:

Transaction availability and performance optimization: Conductor routes transactions to ensure successful completion, avoid underperforming application modules, and optimize usage of data center resources.

Service level resource allocation and optimization: Conductor manages service levels per transaction and end-user class based on the defined business policy.

Transaction failure recovery: In case of an application failure, Conductor can automate application recovery procedures and virtually redirect traffic within the application to ensure orderly termination of every transaction.

B-hive Conductor is an easy-to-install virtual appliance. Conductor passively listens to existing virtual or physical switches within the application infrastructure or network in order to monitor user-generated traffic. It is completely non-intrusive and does not use polling techniques on servers or run synthetic transactions that might negatively impact the production environment.