No single product can give you all of the answers, and yes, it's still difficult to pinpoint the problem without using multiple tools such as GlancePlus to monitor the HP 3000, LAN tools to monitor network traffic, server performance tools, etc. You have to understand what network behavior is all about. Networking people have a fiduciary responsibility to understand application behavior, and until you are able to engage in that conversation, you will have continuing performance interruptions. Inc. Jacek Milobedski ConAm Corporation Allen Dickerson ASP Technologies Second, when constructing your application, do it in a controlled environment, so that baseline performance can be measured. If the application executes to a certain performance level on a 10-node Ethernet LAN with a certain level of traffic, then as the application is deployed into production, the performance impact can be measured against that baseline.
Problems are easier to detect and solutions easier to implement when a baseline is known.
The requests should not affect the transactional processing taking place on the online databases. Unfortunately, not now. More than likely, a group of hardware, network, and database vendors will come up with the standard around which this product is developed. The roundtable included much discussion on the use of Visual Basic instead of some other development environment, because Visual Basic locks you into the Microsoft Windows client. Windows, while used extensively, is proprietary.