For Mobile Users, ADEM is supported for GlobalProtect
deployments whether VPN is connected to or disconnected from Prisma
Access.
Endpoint monitoring—As soon as an app test is
assigned to a user, the ADEM service begins gathering health telemetry
about the device and the WiFi connectivity to help determine whether
the device or the WiFi is the cause of any performance issues. Information
collected includes:
CPU utilization
Memory utilization
Disk usage
Disk queue length
Battery level
WiFi information (SSID, RX and TX utilization, BSSID, and
Channel)
Real user traffic visibility—ADEM continuously provides
visibility into real traffic usage between your users and the applications
they are accessing, including traffic to SaaS applications, Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) applications, or other internet-based applications,
as well as traffic to applications in your own data center.
Synthetic Monitoring—The DEM-enabled GlobalProtect
apps and the cloud ADEM agents within Prisma Access use synthetic
tests to baseline end-to-end network quality metrics—latency, jitter,
and loss—for each segment from the end user to the monitored applications.
In addition, the ADEM agents and probes also use synthetic tests
to collect web performance metrics, which capture metrics about
the HTTP/HTTPS transactions to a specific application, including
application availability and uptime, HTTP latency, DNS lookup, SSL
connect, time-to-first-byte, and data transfer rate.
Because
the synthetic tests are layered, they give a good baseline view
of the digital experience segment-by-segment across all monitored
applications, and allow you to quickly visualize when and where
a change occurred that led to degradation of your users’ digital
experience.