The CA APM Environment Performance Agent (EPAgent) integrates metric data from non-Java sources into CA Introscope®.
The EPAgent takes advantage of the facility available in many operating systems for one process to spawn a sub-process and receive standard output from the sub-process via operating system pipes (standard IPC mechanism). When the ability to initiate a sub-process is combined with a flexible scripting environment (such as Perl) the result is an adaptable and powerful facility for gathering application performance information from virtually any source.
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