Summary: In episode 183, Douglas Brown interviews Helge Klein, CTP, MVP and Founder of helgeklein.com. Helge and Douglas discuss the uberAgent for Splunk (uber Windows agent), how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About uberAgent for Splunk uberAgent is a Splunk agent for Windows. It does not just collect data – it gives you the information that matters. Other monitoring products rely on the performance counters built into Windows. uberAgent has its own metrics, covering key aspects of user experience and system performance. Application Usage Metering uberAgent easily answers questions like these: How many licenses do we need for application X? How many applications do we have in total? Which applications need to go into the base image and which apps are candidates for application virtualization? Logon Time Monitoring uberAgent for Splunk not only tells you if your logon times are good or bad. It shows you exactly where the time is spent. Is it the user profile loading slowly? Has the logon script become too big? Is group policy being processed efficiently? If group policy processing is slow – which client-side extension (CSE) is causing it? uberAgent shows you: Browser Performance – Per Website Browsers have become operating systems of their own. It is no longer sufficient to gather performance data for the browser as a whole. When Internet Explorer’s CPU usage is high, Administrators need to understand what caused that. Is it the business-critical ERP site or are people just watching fun videos on YouTube? Intuitive Information Display The user interface is not numbers only, of course. With the help of Splunk’s great charting capabilities, uberAgent displays information intuitively. It does so for user-specific information like logon times as well as for system performance data like IOPS. Automatic Application IdentificationuberAgent displays performance data per application. Tired of deciphering cryptic process names? We thought so. Process names are for machines, application names are for humans. The best thing about this: grouping processes to applications is fully automatic. If you want to dig deeper, you can get detailed data for each application individually (the same is available for machines, sessions and processes) More information and download: http://helgeklein.com/uberagent-for-splunk/ Helge's tools and blog: http://helgeklein.com/ About Helge Klein Helge has both consulting and development backgrounds. That combination has been very valuable to him on many occasions. As a consultant, programming expertise often comes in handy. Writing small scripts to automate tedious tasks is a no-brainer. The ability to quickly develop the perfect tools for complex migration scenarios is a real benefit for the customer. In more than 10 years of working for several large enterprises he had the ability to hone both his consulting and development skills. As a developer, consulting experience is a great asset. Helge was the architect of the user profile management product sepagoPROFILE which was acquired by Citrix and whose successor is now known as Citrix Profile Management. Why was sepagoPROFILE so successful? Because the development team’s consulting backgrounds helped them design the product in such a way that it fit neatly into heterogeneous environments, was easy to set up and maintain. When he got the chance to work with O’Reilly Germany, he did not have to think twice. He has proofread several books for technical correctness (among them the famous Active Directory book) and written his own little compendium, a guide to the command line tools in Windows.
