CA recently announced the availability of Wily Manager for SiteMinder Web Access Manager, an extension of Wily Introscope, the enterprise application management tool.

According to the company, the Wily Manager for SiteMinder provides real-time visibility into the performance of the SiteMinder Web server agents, application server agents, and CA TransactionMinder agents. This provides Wily Introscope customers with an insight into the time transactions spend to check resources, identify users, and authenticate users to access protected resources.

"Wily Manager for SiteMinder provides support teams with an early warning system, enabling them to quickly detect, triage, and diagnose issues affecting SiteMinder operation before end users are impacted," said Mike Malloy, vice president and chief marketing officer for CA's Wily Technology Division.

The Wily Manager for SiteMinder, also allows IT teams to monitor comprehensive, real-time performance metrics from SiteMinder, including average response time for login, successes, failures, and errors per measurement period; and socket availability for SiteMinder processes.

In addition to the above mentioned functions, the offering also monitors SiteMinder Policy Server metrics such as version, port, cache availability and cache size for the Policy Server and individual SiteMinder agents.