Login VSI has announced Login PI, the Release Candidate for its newest solution. This is the second product from the company (the first being appropriately called named Login VSI) and introduces a new take on monitoring and alerting IT administrators to performance issues in their virtualized desktop environment, whether it be VMware Horizon View, Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp, or Microsoft RDS.
Login VSI has announced Login PI, the Release Candidate for its newest solution. This is the second product from the company (the first being appropriately called named Login VSI) and introduces a new take on monitoring and alerting IT administrators to performance issues in their virtualized desktop environment, whether it be VMware Horizon View, Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp, or Microsoft RDS.
Login PI has a unique user-centric design in order to evaluate performance. Instead of looking at systems-level performance or CPU, Login PI focuses on things that end users experience, including login times and application start times. Login VSI believes that this will allow IT administrators to design their business objectives around delivering rich end user experiences, stating that this is critical to success in any virtualized desktop deployment. As such, Login PI helps to keep IT administrators ahead of helpdesk tickets.
Login PI features include:
- Performance reporting: Login PI provides charts to view the current login and application performance of IT’s environment, showing the up-to-date results of the virtual user. This allows administrators to compare them to historical results in order to see if the current end-user experience matches the expected results.
- Alerts: Login PI can be configured to automatically display a task to alert IT when it detects performance issues within the virtualized environment. These alerts include: sending an email to an admin, sending an SNMP trap to a network management tool, or logging an event in the Windows Event Log. Any command line task can be executed automatically based on alerts.
- Customizable: Out of the box, Login PI measures log-on times and application launch times for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader. The workload can be customized to include other line of business apps for startup performance measurement.
- Extensible platform: A key goal of Login PI is to provide connectors to communicate with commonly management and monitoring tools. PI notifications can be pushed to the consoles already in use in IT today.
Availability and Pricing
The feature-complete version of Login PI Release Candidate is available now for evaluation at no cost. Special pricing includes 50% off for early adopters, which is effective until its formal release in March, 2015.
Those interested can navigate to www.loginvsi.com/products/login-pi to complete the registration form.
