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Foglight Experience Monitor 5.8.1 - Installation and Administration Guide

Installing and configuring Multi-appliance clusters Configuring the appliance Specifying monitored web traffic Transforming monitored URLs Managing applications Foglight components and the appliance Using the console program Troubleshooting the appliance Appendix: Third party software Appendix: Dell PowerEdge system appliance

Monitoring PeopleSoft applications

PeopleSoft’s applications help to improve and maintain critical relationships with customers and employees. By enabling PeopleSoft monitoring, the appliance monitors the web pages (HTTP request and responses) being passed between the client and the server. Any critical business processes delivered by PeopleSoft applications are monitored. Metrics and data from these processes are displayed in the web console.

Figure 80. PeopleSoft page

Configuring the Peoplesoft options controls which URLs are treated as Peoplesoft requests. Hits with URLs that match any regular expressions (configured on the Peoplesoft page) are processed by the appliance to reconstruct the user's actions based on the sequence of Peoplesoft URLs and then determine the performance of these user actions. These Peoplesoft user actions display in the Page category.

For more information, see these topics:

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Monitoring PeopleSoft applications
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Configuring how URLs display

Monitoring PeopleSoft applications

Configuring PeopleSoft monitoring involves defining a set of regular expressions and installing a set of pre-defined configuration settings.

To configure PeopleSoft monitoring:
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Navigate to the Configuring > Applications > PeopleSoft.
Adding regular expressions
2
Enter a Perl regular expression in the box. For example, if you know where the PeopleSoft applications are located (all components are found under quest.com/mypeoplesoft/support/), enter the expression (in this case, quest.com/mypeoplesoft/support/.*).
Multiple regular expressions can be added.
3
Click Add and proceed to Testing regular expressions validity.
Alternatively, if you don’t know where application components are located, click the Pick a Directory link to display a window that lists the directories in use on your site.
This window allows you to easily select an existing directory to serve as the basis for a regular expression. By selecting an item in this window, the box will be initialized with a regular expression that matches the directory you chose. This list is not obtained by an active search of your web site, but rather from the list of URLs that have been monitored and recorded by the appliance in the past.
4
From the Directory List, navigate to and select a directory.
This directory is added to the Selected Directory section (some directories contain subdirectories, directories that are nested beneath the top-level directory. For example, my.prod.quest.corp is a subdirectory of my).
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Click OK.
The directory is added to the regular expressions list.
Testing regular expressions validity
6
To display a list of URLs that match the regular expression, click Test.
This test is performed against the list of URLs that have been monitored and recorded by the appliance in the past.
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Close the window when you are finished reviewing the resource list.
Configuring PeopleSoft configuration settings
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In the PeopleSoft Configuration Settings section, click Apply to install pre-defined configuration settings.
The appliance will monitor servers previously configured on the Servers page use these settings.

Configuring how URLs display

When PeopleSoft monitoring is configured, the appliance records when information is transmitted to and from the server. You can define how the URLs display in the appliance using several options. For example, you can display request methods (POST, GET) in URLs by setting the Show HTTP request methods in URL option using the Advanced Options on the URL page. For more information, see Advanced URL options.

PeopleSoft as well as other applications encode their URLs. For ease of use, you can decide whether to display URLs encoded or decoded. For information about displaying URLs in the web console, see Encoded and decoded URLs.

Figure 81. Variable Rules page

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When you apply the pre-defined configuration settings, the system automatically populates a list of default variable rules. You can customize a variable rule defining how the system will transform the query segments of URLs. For more information, see Managing variable rules.

Monitoring Siebel applications

Siebel’s customer relationship management application enables organizations to automate particular aspects of a business streamlining the processes which affect the overall bottom and top line of the business.

You can enable the appliance to monitor activities performed by the Siebel application server and report statistics about these user activities.

Figure 82. Siebel page

Configuring the Siebel options controls which URLs are treated as Siebel requests. Hits with URLs that match any regular expressions (configured on the Siebel page) are processed by the appliance to reconstruct the user's actions based on the sequence of Siebel URLs and then determines the performance of these user actions. These Siebel user actions display in the Page category.

For more information, see these topics:

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Monitoring Siebel applications
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Configuring how URLs display
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