Worldwide companies have adopted the "Web services" as the preferred technology for the integration of middleware enabled in your Web, e-business applications. Hundreds of sites offer Web services that provide useful services essential to the operation of B2B or B2C e-business applications. Many companies outsource items ranging from security services to its plants and offices to outsource packing and shipping, or even cleaning services. Companies specializing in Web services provide the latest exchange rates for any combination of more than 100 countries serving a. Web services companies with hundreds of clients B2B or B2C e-commerce/e-business who need their services (on a 24x7 basis) for the operation of its non-stop global businesses.
Examples of Web services include:
* Facilitate access to FedEx tracking information, taking a return tracking number and shipping status of FedEx
* Credit card maintenance and management
* Provide authentication
* Returning real-time information for flights in the air, taking into account an airline code and flight number, using current information from the online service.
* Calculation and provide shipping requirements in any currency
* A monthly lease payment calculator service
* Sending text messages to mobile phones, when given a list of countries and international dialing codes
* Provide an Internet time
* Recovery of news headlines from sites like CNN, CBS, or supply MSNmoney and news portals
* Provide up sports when changes to various channels
* Offer Web site management system, providing more than 100 functions
* ... And many more!
Vital issues involved in Web services business
As companies integrate Web services with hundreds of important clients B2B/B2C, become vital components of hundreds of billions of dollars in international trade and electronic commerce, manufacturing and business services. Since a transaction can not be completed without the input of service, any service interruption, delay in response, or system failure could spell disaster and untold loss deferred shipments, cancellations, and even stoppage of operations. Therefore, it is imperative that Web services to work correctly and efficiently each time.
Web services companies therefore always be carried out within the acceptable framework. There is little margin for error. That's why Web services firms tend to have signed SLAs with customers for delivery of functionality and performance. Any deviation could mean attracting censure, fines, or both.
What should be done to prevent exposure?
Clearly, the automatic and continuous control functionality and performance of a web site service is required. This web site monitoring should not only verify its functionality is delivered, but also the efficiency with which it is delivered. If the response time is always beyond SLA standards, must be registered and reporting services company of the anomalies, so the company can look inside and outside your firewall to rectify the situation.
Dotcom-Monitor.com has the solution.
Dotcom-Monitor. com can custom track through its Monitoring Service dotcom highly respected and recognized. This automated system, without stopping (24x7) service meets the needs of performance and functional control of a site, automatically alerting and reporting deviations from the site management, real-time through an integrated information system Dotcom-Monitor. This leads to site management for prompt corrective action.
How does Dotcom-Monitor
Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents strategically throughout the world, each acting as an Internet browser. After a customer creates an account, he or she gives the URL of service Web site, along with the functions to be controlled with inputs, algorithms, expected outcomes and performance standards. Then the process begins immediately. Global Agent Dotcom-Monitor checks the web service (s) to ensure it is accessible and acceptable levels of performance. If any of these are outside the specified parameters, the client receives a notification.
1. Functional monitoring: Dotcom-Monitor continuously checks the functionality of the service, making specifically calls for the site functional (application) server to check the accuracy of the results obtained in real time. It uses input representative of transactions / messages, algorithms, and the results provided by the Web service for this purpose. The monitor performs Dotcom-Monitor service at predefined intervals. Any deviation of the results provided are immediately informed of any appropriate action.
2. Performance Monitoring: Most companies use Web services SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) technology to architect receiving services transactions, serialization, processing, serialization and delivery. SOAP is a lightweight, stateless protocol, XML communication that allows applications to exchange structured messages / transactions over the Internet. Most current implementations use SOAP HTTP binding because of the wide availability of SOAP and the ability to pass through firewalls.
One of the features Dotcom-Monitor is to determine the level of performance available in SOAP implementations using appropriate test transactions / messages. First, Dotcom-Monitor checks the latency, the round trip time taken to send and receive a single transaction / message from the server monitoring service for the server and back. High resolution timers are used to measure the time required for each return. Dotcom-Monitor repeated this test in a defined interval. For the transfer, Dotcom-Monitor controls carried out to find the maximum performance available from each SOAP implementation using a number of concurrent threads driver records the number of full scans per second, compared with the standards provided.
Dotcom-Monitor carries out an independent exercise to measure the SOAP serialization and serialization overhead. Test driver sends a number of detail records to the server clients. The monitor captures the times required by the server to perform serialization and deserialization of SOAP transactions / messages. Any degradation in overall performance beyond the Web services defined by the limits are recorded and reported. A proper record of the checks is kept for further analysis.
In Conclusion
Just as business is vital to the economy, Web services are critical to electronic commerce. Web services should always be done with absolute integrity and consistent delivery without stopping the performance of B2B or B2C e-commerce sites. Since these sites are both concatenated with hundreds of e-commerce Web sites provide the vital functions of every business they serve, there is no margin for error or failure.
Service websites must plan for zero tolerance. While it is easy to plan and implement redundant hardware and network infrastructure, the exhibition is to deliver flawless functional in the desired response time, every time. That is only possible if the constant monitoring to correct functional output (s) and response time performance is maintained, and highlight any deviation in real time to take corrective action. A solution of 24x7 web site monitoring from Dotcom-Monitor.com is the real answer.
September 13, 2010, 09:08:34 PM