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Foglight APM for Real User Experience 5.9.9 - Administration and Configuration Guide

Getting started Configuring traffic capture
Managing Sniffers Managing Archivers Managing capture groups Managing sessionizing policies Managing monitored ports Managing monitored IP addresses Managing monitored subnets Managing identifiers for virtual addressing schemes Managing private keys Managing web services and SOAP operations
Configuring traffic analysis Configuring analyzers Capturing traffic outside the network Configuring advanced options Integrating Foglight APM with other products Maintaining and troubleshooting Appendix: Building regular expressions in Foglight Appendix: Traffic analysis processing
Understanding the traffic analysis workflow Stage 1: Run hit analysis Stage 2: Run sequence analysis Stage 3: Finalize stopped sequences Stage 4: Finalize the session Example of interdependent analyzers Online-Only Topics
Removing items from a table Defining extraction expressions Adding, copying, and editing archivers Testing archivers Configuring archiver database shard settings Adding, copying, and editing sniffers Testing sniffers Adding and editing capture groups Testing capture groups Adding and copying sessionizing policies Editing sessionizing policies Selecting session identifiers from a discovery list Adding and editing session identifier variables Organizing session identifiers Selecting user name variables from a discovery list Adding and editing username rules Selecting URL prefixes from a discovery list Adding or adding URL prefixes Selecting ports from a discovery list Adding or editing monitored ports Selecting IP addresses from a discovery list Adding or editing monitored IP addresses Looking up host names for all monitored IP addresses Associating private keys with IP addresses Selecting subnets from a discovery list Adding and editing monitored subnets Adding identifiers Editing identifiers Finding IP addresses in HTTP headers Configuring a custom HTTP header using Microsoft IIS Manager Adding and editing local private keys Adding and editing HSM private keys Exporting keys using Microsoft Management Console Adding or editing web services Importing WSDL files to define web services Managing custom fields and metrics Adding, copying, and editing custom fields Removing custom fields Editing custom metrics Removing custom metrics Managing sensitive data Adding, copying, and editing sensitive hit detail policies Adding, copying, and editing sensitive content expression policies Modifying members of pivot categories Selecting aliases from a discovery list Adding, copying, and editing domain rules Adding, copying, and editing large hit details Adding, copying, and editing URL classifiers Reviewing rules for browser category, browser, and operating system hit details Adding user-defined user agent rules Adding and editing additional parsed response types Adding and editing captured request body types Adding, copying, and editing scripts Removing scripts Referencing configuration objects in a script Testing regular expressions Syntax for test data Adding simple hit analyzers using the Setup Wizard Adding simple sequence analyzers using the Setup Wizard Adding analyzers Copying analyzers Editing analyzers Adding and editing conditions Creating a simple Boolean expression Creating a complex Boolean expression Disabling standard metrics generated by a hit analyzer Adding custom metrics Editing custom metrics Selecting pivot categories Breaking out metrics into dynamically-named topology objects Publishing metric timeslices for the Geographical Perspectives dashboard Changing SLA thresholds Adding custom field updates Editing custom field updates Adding scripts to an analyzer Editing scripts Creating new scripts on the fly Adding hit storage restrictions Editing hit storage restrictions Adding sequence events Editing sequence events Adding static page elements Editing static page elements Viewing resource files defined by static page elements Adding and editing subnet filters Exporting configurations Exporting encrypted configurations Restoring a previous configuration Importing saved configurations Importing hit analysis configurations from Foglight Experience Viewer Using the Import Configuration Wizard

Finding the Foglight APM dashboards

To find the Foglight APM dashboards, in the Foglight navigation panel, under Dashboards, expand APM. Top-level APM dashboards enable you to view aggregated data by sequence, transaction, or geographical perspective. The rest of the dashboards are organized into menu groupings that reflect configuration tasks, search activities, and support tasks.
The APM menu contains the following menu items:
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Configure—configure the software components, modify what data is captured, and define how the data should be handled or analyzed before being stored.
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Traffic Analysis—configure what happens to the data after it has been captured. You can define applications, analyzers, and sensitive data policies.
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Traffic Capture—configure the software components and assign them to capture groups. Set options to resolve gaps in the data captured by default, decrypt secure traffic, and capture additional information that makes the data more meaningful.
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Configure Advanced Options—integrate with other products and configure less frequently used options to better reflect your environment. Usually, you can leave the advanced options with default values until you need to change them.
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Error Explorer—display the top sampled requests with errors for a selected transaction during a selected timeslice.
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Geographical Perspective—assess the performance of your web sites and applications by city, country, or region.
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Response Time Breakdown—display the top sampled requests for a selected transaction during a selected timeslice.
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Search—search the Archiver databases for details about hits, sequences, and sessions. For example, this workflow uses the Hits dashboard to verify that Foglight is collecting data.
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Sequence Explorer—assess the performance of important workflows in your web applications.
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Support—monitor the performance of your appliances and manage saved configurations.
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Transactions—monitor real user experiences with or without the other transactional data captured by Foglight.
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Web Site and Endpoints—assess the performance of your web sites and endpoints.
Figure 2. APM dashboards menu
This Getting Started workflow introduces you to some of the dashboards available under the Configure and Search menus. The rest of the dashboards are covered in the other sections of this guide and in the Foglight APM User Guide.

Registering Sniffers and Archivers

 
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NOTE: If you are using an All-in-One Appliance with no additional appliances, you can skip this step. The local Sniffer and Archiver are already preregistered and assigned to a default capture group.
In a multi-appliance environment, you may have one or more Sniffers and one or more Archivers hosted on different appliances. Sniffers capture, decrypt, and analyze web traffic, and transmit content and metrics to one or more Archivers within the same capture group as the Sniffer. Archivers capture content and metrics collected by Sniffers, analyze that content, and maintain databases used for searching, reporting, and replay. For more information about how Archivers work, see Understanding how Foglight captures real user data.
To see the data being captured and stored by Sniffers and Archivers, you need to register the Sniffers and Archivers and optionally organize them into capture groups.
This section covers the following topics:
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Creating Capture Groups
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Registering Sniffers
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Registering Archivers

Creating Capture Groups

By default, all registered Sniffers and Archivers are assigned to the Default Capture Group. If you want, you can create your own capture groups to separate data coming from distinct areas of the network or different geographical locations. For more information, see Planning capture groups.
To add a capture group:
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Click APM > Configure > Traffic Capture > Capture Groups.
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Click Add.
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In the Add Capture Group dialog box, complete the options. For help with options, see Defining capture groups.
 
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NOTE: The Sniffers and Archivers areas are display only. To add Sniffers and Archivers to the group, see Registering Sniffers and Registering Archivers.
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Click Save.

Registering Sniffers

When using an All-in-One Appliance, the Sniffer component comes preregistered as the Local Sniffer—you do not need to register it. For installations with standalone Sniffer Appliances, you need to add and configure the Sniffers.
To add a Sniffer definition:
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Click APM > Configure > Traffic Capture > Sniffers.
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Click Add.
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In the Add Sniffer dialog box, complete the options. For help with options, see Defining Sniffers.
 
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NOTE: From the Capture Group list, you can select a capture group you defined earlier. For more information, see Creating Capture Groups.
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Click Save.
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