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Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.4 - Infrastructure Utilities User Guide

Monitoring Web transactions Monitoring network devices

Moving multiple transactions as a group

Moving multiple transactions in a single operation may be accomplished via the Transaction Management dashboard.

 
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NOTE: You may not deploy the same transaction to multiple agents within the same location.
To move multiple transactions in a single operation:
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On the Transaction Management dashboard, filter the transactions by location.
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On the Transaction Management dashboard, filter the transactions by agent.
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Select the transactions you wish to move.
The Move Transactions button is enabled.
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Click Move Transactions.
The Batch Edit Monitoring Locations dialog box is displayed.
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Select an agent on another Foglight Agent Manager.
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Click Move.
The Operation(s) Complete message box appears once the selected transactions have been redeployed from the original agent to the new selected agent.

Removing stale transactions from the Performance Browser dashboard

Occasionally, the list of transactions in the Performance Browser dashboard Quick View may contain a stale transaction that does not appear on the Transaction Management dashboard. You may remove stale transactions from the Performance Browser dashboard Quick View via the Foglight Data Management dashboard.

To delete a transaction from the Performance Browser Quick View:
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Stop the Foglight Agent Manager that is installed on the host where the Web Monitor agent is running
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NOTE: If you do not stop the Foglight Agent Manager first, the Web Monitor agent instance will still reside on the host. For details on stopping the Foglight Agent Manager, refer to the Agent Manager Guide.
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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Management Server > Servers > Data Management.
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Click All Services > Services > WebMonitor Pivot Service > Definition.
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Select the Transaction you wish to delete, click Delete.
The Delete Topology Objects message box appears.
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Click Delete to confirm the removal.
The Delete TopologyObjects Progress message box appears.
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Click OK.
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Restart the Foglight Agent Manager installed on the host.

Viewing and editing individual Web transaction details

Every monitored Web site is associated with a number of transaction-related settings. You can view and edit these settings using the Transaction Detail dashboard.

Figure 2. Transaction Detail dashboard

To access the Transaction Detail dashboard, click on a transaction name on the Transaction Management dashboard.

Figure 3. Transaction Name on Transaction Management Dashboard

For more information about the Transaction Management dashboard, see Exploring your collection of monitored Web sites. For complete details about the data appearing on this dashboard, see Transaction Detail view.

You can make changes to any transaction details that appear on this dashboard by clicking the appropriate Edit button and making the required changes.

Any changes you make to transaction alarm thresholds results in creating topology-scoped values of the registry variables that control these thresholds, and the other way around. The topology type used to contain Web transaction definitions is Internal Synthetic Transaction (Webmonitor), and the Internal Synthetic Transaction (Webmonitor) topology object names are the configured transactions names.

Figure 4. Synthetic_Transaction_MET_Warning Registry Variable

 
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NOTE: Access to Foglight registry variables, requires the Administrator role.

For more information about the Foglight registry, see the Administration and Configuration Help.

To edit transaction details:
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On the Transaction Detail dashboard, locate the settings that you want to edit.
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To edit basic transaction information, such as its URL, in the Basic Information view, click Edit.
The Update Basic Transaction Information dialog box appears.
Click the column that you want to update, and type the desired values.
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To start monitoring this Web site with a new set of monitoring agents, in the Monitoring Location view, click Edit.
The Edit Monitoring Locations dialog box appears.
Make your selections by selecting or clearing the check boxes next to the names of hosts on which the Web Monitor Agent is installed, as required.
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To specify different thresholds for alarm generation, or authentication and proxy settings, in the Advanced Settings view, click Edit.
The Update Advanced Settings dialog box appears.
To specify different thresholds for alarm generation, in the Response time alarm firing conditions area, type the desired values.
To change the authentication or proxy settings, in the Authentication and proxy settings area, select and type the desired values.
URL authentication required: Select this check box only if the specified URL requires user authentication. If that is the case, you need to ensure that you have proper credentials in place to enable the Web Monitor Agent to access this URL. Click Manage Credentials to review the existing credentials, or to create new ones, as required. For more information, see Configuring credentials to access Web sites requiring user authentication.
When finished, you can return to this dialog box using the breadcrumb trail.
Use proxy for URL connection: Select this check box only if the Web Monitor needs to use a proxy to access the specified URL. Click Manage Credentials to review the existing credentials, and create new ones, as required. For more information, see Configuring credentials to access Web sites requiring user authentication.
Server: If you need to configure proxy access, type the name of the proxy server followed by the port number.
Proxy authentication required: Select this check box if the proxy requires authentication.
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Click Save.
The dialog box closes.
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The view containing newly updated information refreshes, showing the new values.

Investigating the performance of Web transactions and monitoring locations

A typical monitoring environment includes a set of monitored Web sites and the Web Monitor agents that monitor them. These components are displayed on the Performance Browser dashboard. This dashboard provides an overall summary of your entire Web monitoring environment. Use it to see the state of individual Web transactions, and to understand the end users’ experience when visiting monitored Web sites.

Figure 5. Performance Browser dashboard

You can access this dashboard from the navigation panel. Under Dashboards, click Web Monitor > Performance Browser.

When you navigate to the Performance Browser for the first time, the Monitor tab, described in this topic, appears open. This tab provides an overall summary of your monitored environment. The FAQts tab is also available. For more information about this tab, see Exploring the FAQts tab.

Start by indicating the type of objects you want to investigate. To do that, select the appropriate tile at the top of the Monitor tab, Transactions or Locations. This causes the Quick View to display information about the selected objects. Next, select an object or group of objects in the Quick View, such as All Transactions or All Locations, to display additional information about that selection. For example, selecting all transactions identifies the locations with the lowest availability, the lowest MET (met expected time) data, and the highest consumed response time. For complete information about the data appearing on the Performance Browser, see Web Monitor Performance Browser views.

For more information, see the following topics:

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Drilling down on transactions
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Drilling down on locations via the Locations tab
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