Introduction

Business transaction management (BTM), also known as business transaction monitoring, application transaction profiling or user defined transaction profiling, is the practice of managing information technology (IT) from a business transaction perspective. It provides a tool for tracking the flow of transactions across IT infrastructure, in addition to detection, alerting, and correction of unexpected changes in business or technical conditions. BTM provides visibility into the flow of transactions across infrastructure tiers, including a dynamic mapping of
the application topology.

Course Content

1. Distributed Application Overview

• Characteristics of Distributed Application
• Comparison of Distributed Application
• Implementing Technologies
• Pros and Cons

2. Management System Overview

• About Management System Functions
• About Management Intermediaries and Servers
• About Management Applications and System Components
• Discussing System Architecture Functional Layers
• About Transaction Management Server
• About Performance Management Server
• About Container Services
• Explaining AmberPoint AMS Capabilities

3. Installing and Configuring the AmberPoint Management System

• Discussing Product Usage Scenarios
• Discussing Product Implementation Life Cycle
• Planning Your AMS Installation
• Installation and Deployment Considerations
• Overview of AMS Installation Summary
• Basic Tomcat Installation (apDemo)
• Describing Default Distributed Deployment Model
• Discussing various Installation Options

4. The Course Labs

• About Bookmart Application
• About Hello World Application
• Accessing the Hello World Client

5. Discovery and Dependency Analysis

• Overview of Discovery Mechanisms
• Discovery: Container-based and Message-based
• Discovery: Nano-agent
• Discovery: UDDI registry
• Explorer – Table View and Map View
• About Network/Services View
• Explorer – Service and Operation Dependencies
• Overview of Dependency Subsystem

6. Initiating Management

• Why Initiate Management?
• Active vs. Passive Management
• Managing Multiple Services with a Plug-in
• Managing Multiple Services with a Proxy
• About Nano-agent
• Overview of Basic Observer Architecture
• Nano-agent: Configuration and Log Files
• Client-Side Agent: Component View

7. Monitoring Service Performance

• Monitoring and Data Collection
• Monitoring Services
• Reading the Service Activity Chart
• Reading the Operation Activity Table
• What is a SOAP Fault?
• Monitoring Service Faults
• Exceptions/All Exceptions View: Inspecting SOAP Fault Messages
• Inspecting the Message Content

8. Monitoring Correlation Performance

• Overview of Service Level Monitoring – Cons
• About Create Correlation Tool
• Choosing Operations from a Discovered Dependency
• Using the Performance Mgmt Server and the Transaction Mgmt Server Together
• Setting Up Performance Monitoring of Correlations
• Configuring Correlation Fault Monitoring
• About Correlation Logging Operation
• Enabling Manual Assembly of Correlations

9. Defining and Monitoring Exceptional Conditions

• Elements and Types of Conditions
• Creating and Monitoring a Custom Condition
• Conditions Work Area View
• Evaluating a Condition at Runtime
• Defining Correlation Properties
• Monitoring Correlations with Conditions
• Configuring Condition Performance View
• Configuring an Exception Response

10. Monitoring Utilization

• Segmenting Traffic by Consumer Identity
• Configuring Utilization Monitoring
• Creating Consumer Profiles Manually
• Mapping Consumers
• About Custom XPath Mapping Expression
• About Service Activity View
• Mapping Consumers to Correlations
• Monitoring Correlation Usage

11. Targets

• About Service Targets and Target Groups
• Monitoring Alerts and Warnings
• Setting Targets
• Target Coverage – Service Operations
• Summary View: Monitoring Target Status
• Services Selector: Monitoring Target Status
• Monitoring Alerts in the Summary View
• About the Performance / Alerts View

12. Notification

• About the Notifier Service and Alert Notification
• Overview of Notification Subscriptions
• Overview of the Subscription Editor
• Enabling Generic Subscriptions
• Accessing the Custom Subscription Editor
• About Email Notification on Alerts
• Configuring the AP_ExM_Service
• Creating an Email Notification

13. Agreements

• Overview of Agreements and Consumers
• Creating an Agreement and Objectives
• Assigning Consumers to an Agreement
• Activating an Agreement
• Monitoring Customer Status and Agreement Status
• Creating Agreement for Correlation
• Monitoring the Correlation’s Agreement
• Monitoring Agreement Compliance

14. Policy Templates

• Discussing Policy Templates and Policy Template Elements
• Creating a Policy – High-Level View
• Policy Creation and Distribution
• Overview of Logging Mechanisms
• Creating a Log Policy
• Throttling Policy
• About Routing Implementation Mechanisms
• Overview of Load Balancing Policy and Failover Policy

15. Security

• Discussing Security opportunities
• Overview of Application Security
• Overview of Security considerations
• Determining Security needs
• Overview of characteristics of Distributed Application
• Discussing scope of Security Mechanism
• Discussing Security Features