Specifications

Chapter 1: The BT Studio Tool Set
Application Response allows you to measure actual, observed response time
from the end user’s point of view. In reports, it can show an average response
time for a monitored application, with total response time divided into client
time, network time, and server time. This allows you to determine whether
performance problems originate from the client, the network, or the server.
However, you might want more detailed information than an average response
time for the entire application. You might want response time for specific
transactions that are important to the success of your enterprise. You can use
the BT Studio tool set to specify the transactions to monitor. (BT is an
abbreviation for Business Transaction.) Application Response can then track
performance data for those transactions, in addition to the performance of the
application as a whole.
This section contains the following topics:
BT Studio
(see page 13)
Application Response
(see page 14)
BT Marker
(see page 14)
Applications
(see page 15)
Default Applications and Servers
(see page 15)
Recording Agent
(see page 16)
Events and Transactions
(see page 16)
About Rules and Rule Sets
(see page 17)
Module Sets and the Application Hierarchy
(see page 18)
About Servers
(see page 19)
About Alternate Rule Sets
(see page 19)
Default Servers
(see page 20)
About Response Paths
(see page 20)
About the Event Log File
(see page 21)
Measure Response Time
(see page 22)
Rule Development Process
(see page 23)
Determine the Transactions to Monitor
(see page 24)
Monitor Multiple Application Versions
(see page 25)
Upgrade Monitored Applications
(see page 26)
Update Application Rule Sets
(see page 26)
BT Studio
BT Studio is a tool that you use to develop the rule sets that Application
Response (AR) uses to recognize transactions to monitor for performance. You
use BT Studio to view the event log generated by the recording agent, write
rules using the Business Transaction (BT) language, check syntax, and test the
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