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Chapter 5 Event Management
To enable or disable monitoring for a specific transaction
IntheThresholdSettingstable,clicktheOnorOfficonintherowfortheperformancethreshold.
To enable or disable monitoring for all transactions:
OntheThresholdSettingstoolbar,clickMonitorAllorUnmonitorAll.
Setting Thresholds
Thethresholdvaluedeterminestheperformancelevelthattriggersachangeinthestateofatransactionor
application.Foreachtransaction,youcandefinethresholdsforlatencyanderrors.Youcanspecifythreshold
valuesorhaveAppSpeedsuggestvaluesbasedonperformancetrendsovertime.
Define Thresholds
YoucansettheSLAthresholdsforlatencyanderrorsforaspecifictransaction.
To manually define thresholds
1IntheThresholdSettingspagefortheapplication,selecttherowfortheperformancethreshold
(Latency orErrors).
ThethresholdsettingsareshownintheThresholdpanebelowthetable.Thetransaction’sperformance
relativetothethresholds
isindicatedontheaccompanyinggraph.Thethresholdsareindicatedby
colorcodedlines.Ablacklineindicatestheperformancetrendforthedefinedtimeperiod.
2Typethethresholdvalueinthestatefield(Warning,SLA,orUnavailable).
Whenthethresholdvalueisexceeded,thetransactionstatuschangestotheselected
state.
Thethresholdlineonthegraphisadjustedaccordingtoyoursettingsothatyoucanviewtheperformance
datarelativetotheproposedthreshold.
3Whenyouhavecompletedsettingthethresholds,clickUpdateTable.
ThevaluesareupdatedintheThresholdSettingstable.
4ClickApplyChangestoacceptthechanges.
Use AppSpeed Threshold Suggestions
YoucanhaveAppSpeedsuggestthresholdvaluesbasedonperformancetrendsovertime.AppSpeedcan
suggestvaluesforallthresholdsforallapplicationtransactionsoronlyforthosethresholdsforwhichno
valuesexist.
Ifyousuggestthresholdsettingsforalltransactions,youcanstilldisablemonitoringforspecifictransactions.
To suggest values for all thresholds
1In
theThresholdSettingspagefortheapplication,click SuggestforAllonthetoolbar.
Aprogressbarisdisplayedwhiletheprocessisperformed,whichmighttakeseveralminutes.
Whentheprocessiscomplete,anypreviouslysetvaluesintheThresholdSettingstableareoverwritten
bythesuggestedvalues.Aflag
iconnexttothetransactionnameindicatesthatitisoverwritten.
2Toeditasuggestedvalueforaspecifictransaction,selecttherowfortheperformancethreshold(Latency
orErrors)andeditthevalueinthecorrespondingstatefield(Warning,SLA,orUnavailable),asdescribed
in“DefineThresholds”onpage 37.
3Click
ApplyChangestothesavethevaluesintheThresholdSettingstable.
NOTEToreverttothepreviouslysavedvalues,clickRevert.
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OTEToreverttothepreviouslysavedvalues,clickRevertAll.