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Foglight for Infrastructure 6.0.0 - Infrastructure Utilities User Guide

Monitoring Web transactions
Configuring credentials for Web sites requiring user or proxy authentication Exploring your collection of monitored Web sites Investigating the performance of Web transactions and monitoring locations Exploring Web Monitor services Generating reports Configuring Web Monitor agent properties View reference
Monitoring network devices

Removing Web sites from the existing collection

The Transaction Management dashboard allows you to remove URLs from the existing collection of monitored sites. Removing a URL from the list causes the Web Monitor Agent to stop collecting Web site transaction information about that URL. The data collected from a removed URL is kept in the Foglight database in accordance with the existing persistence settings. For more information, refer to the Administration and Configuration Help.

To stop monitoring a Web site:
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On the Transaction Management dashboard, select the Web site that you no longer want to monitor, and click Delete.
The Confirm message box appears.
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Click Yes to confirm the removal and close the message box.
The Operation(s) Complete message box appears.
Click OK to close it.
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In the Transaction Management dashboard, review the list of monitored transactions.
The newly removed Web site no longer appears in the list.

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.
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