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Chapter 5 Event Management
Enable or Disable SLA Monitoring of Transactions
YoucanenableordisableSLAmonitoringforspecifictransactions.Tomonitoratransaction,SLAmonitoring
mustbeenabledfortheapplicationtowhichitbelongs.
DisablingSLAmonitoringofatransactiondoesnotremoveanysavedthresholdsettings,howeverthe
transactionisnolongermonitoredforchangesinperformancelevels
basedonthosethresholds.
IfSLAmonitoringisdisabledforanapplication,youcannotenableSLAmonitoringofitstransactions.
Enable or disable monitoring of a specific transaction
IntheThresholdSettingstable,clicktheOnorOfficonintherowfortheperformancethreshold.
Enable or disable monitoring of all transactions
OntheThresholdSettingstoolbar,clickMonitorAllorUnmonitorAll.
Set Thresholds
Thethresholdvaluedeterminestheperformancelevelthattriggersachangeinthestateofatransactionor
application.Foreachtransaction,youcandefinethresholdsforlatencyanderrors.Youcansetthreshold
valuesorhaveAppSpeedcalculatevaluesbasedonperformancetrendsovertime.
Define Thresholds
YoucansettheSLAthresholdsforlatencyanderrorsforaspecifictransaction.
Manually define thresholds
1OntheThresholdSettingspagefortheapplication,selecttherowfortheperformancethreshold.
ThethresholdsettingsareshownintheThresholdpanebelowthetable.Thetransaction’sperformance
relativetothethresholdsisindicatedon
theaccompanyinggraph.Thethresholdsareindicatedby
colorcodedlines.Ablacklineindicatestheperformancetrendforthedefinedtimeframe.
2Typethethresholdvalueintheappropriatestatetextbox.
Whenthethresholdvalueisexceeded,thetransactionstatuschangestotheselectedstate.
Thethresholdlineonthe
graphisadjustedaccordingtoyoursettingsothatyoucanviewtheperformance
datarelativetotheproposedthreshold.
3 (Optional)ClickReverttoreverttotheprevioussavedvalues.
4Whenyoufinishsettingthethresholds,clickUpdateTable.
ThevaluesareupdatedintheThresholdSettingstable.
5ClickApplyChangesto
acceptthechanges.
Use AppSpeed Threshold Suggestions
Youcanusesuggestedthresholdvalues.AppSpeedcalculatesthesethresholdvaluesbasedonperformance
trendsovertime.AppSpeedcancalculatevaluesforallthresholdsforallapplicationtransactionsoronlyfor
thosethresholdsforwhichnovaluesexist.
Ifyouusethesuggestedthresholdsettingsforalltransactions,youcanstill
disablemonitoringforspecific
transactions.Youcanalsoeditvaluesforaspecifictransaction,asdescribedin“DefineThresholds”on
page 35.