Configure end-to-end monitoring

Once you have imported management packs, you’ll need to tune them so that they provide you with useful monitoring information. Another form of monitoring is synthetic transactions, which allow you to configure monitoring for a variety of different objects, from websites, through to UNIX processes, network ports, and Windows Services. If you want to verify the functionality of your organization’s web applications from external locations, you can configure Global Service Monitor. If you want to monitor complex multi-tier applications, you can configure a distributed application model.

This section covers the following topics:

  Managing management packs

  Configuring synthetic transactions

  Using Global Service Monitor

  Application Performance Monitoring

  Creating distributed application models

Summary

• You can tune a management pack so that it presents you with information that is relevant for your particular environment.
•   Tuning involves configuring overrides for monitors and rules that change how each of these work.
•   When tuning a sealed management pack, you store the overrides in a separate unsealed management pack
•   Synthetic transactions allow you to create monitors for a variety of items, including UNIX and Linux processes, Windows Services, web applications, and OLE DB data sources
•   Global Service Monitor allows you to configure remote monitoring of externally available web applications
•   Application Performance Monitoring allows you to configure advanced monitoring for .NET and WCF applications
•   Distributed application models allow you to create models of applications that depend upon multiple disparate segments.