End-to-End e-business Transaction Management Made Easy

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Part 3 Using TMTP to P to

measure

transaction

performance

This part discusses the use of TMTP to measure both actual, real-time end-user

as well as simulated transaction response times.

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The information is divided into the following main sections:

Chapter 7, “Real-time reporting” on page 211

This chapter introduces the reader to the various reporting options available

to users of TMTP, both real-time and historical.

򐂰 Chapter 8, “Measuring e-business transaction response times” on page 225

This chapter focuses on how to set up and deploy TMTP to capture real-time

experiences as experienced by the end users.

Real-time end-user measurement by Quality of Service and J2EE are

introduced, and the use of subtransaction analysis and back-end service time

from Quality of Service are demonstrated along with the use of correlation of

the information to identify the root cause of e-business transaction problems.

򐂰 Chapter 9, “Rational Robot and GenWin” on page 325

This chapter demonstrates how to use the Rational Robot to record

e-business transactions, how to instrument those transactions in order to

generate relevant e-business transaction performance data, and how to use

TMTP’s GenWin facility to manage playback of your transactions.

򐂰 Chapter 10, “Historical reporting” on page 375

This chapter discusses methods and processes of collecting business

transaction data from the TMTP Version 5.2 relational database to Tivoli

Enterprise Date Warehouse, and analysis and presentation of that data as a

business point of view.

The target audience for this part are the users of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for

Transaction Performance who are responsible for defining monitoring policies

and interpreting the results.