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To ensure your Web Transaction Monitors are complete and successfully collecting data, follow the steps given below to create the transaction file correctly:
This section describes options in the Web Transaction Capture Tool.
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File | |||||||||||||||||||||
Open | Click this to display the Open Transaction File window. From here, select a previously recorded transaction to work with. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Save | Click this to save the transaction file. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Exit | Click this to close and quit the application. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Advanced Settings | The Advanced Settings window enables you to set certain properties to govern the recording tool.
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Edit | Click this to open a previously recorded file and make changes to it. | ||||||||||||||||||||
TrueSight | TrueSight > Policy > Add selected transactions to monitoring - This option allows you to deploy the transaction file to the PATROL Agent that is running the policy. Click this option to connect to the TrueSight server.
TrueSight > Policy > Modify default configuration monitoring settings - Select this option allows to modify the default configuration settings. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Reset | Click this to delete any unsaved transaction information. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Record | |||||||||||||||||||||
Start Recording | Click this to begin recording a new transaction. This option is disabled when you open a previously recorded transaction. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stop | Click this to stop recording a transaction. | ||||||||||||||||||||
View Source | Click this to view the HTML source of the Web page you are viewing. This lets you copy the desired content for Content Match from the HTML source so that extra line feeds or in-between newline characters are not copied. |
The following buttons are included in the Web Transaction Capture Tool on the Web capture section.
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Record | Click this to record a new transaction file. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playback | Click this to display the Playback dialog box. This option allows you to play the transaction from the web recorder. You can use this option to validate a transaction file before adding it to the configuration.
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Save | Click this to save the transaction steps to a file. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stop | Click this to stop recording a transaction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Reset | Click this to clear the screen without saving any changes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Step Info | This section displays information about the steps that are recorded as a transaction in a tree structure. Step information also displays content match and title match, if specified. The URLs of the steps recorded are displayed in this section. Positive content match is displayed with a '+' symbol next to the inserted content match string and negative content match is displayed with a '-' symbol. Title match string recorded is displayed with the letter 'T'. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Log Info | When you select this tab, two additional tabs 'Debug' and 'Error' are displayed. Debug tab contains all debug messages and the Error tab lists errors that occurred during recording. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Update Step Name | By default, the URL of a step in a transaction is considered as its name. This is displayed in the field next to the Update Step Name button. Change the step name displayed in the field and click this button to assign the name to the step. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Content Match | The Content match feature enables the Web Transaction user to verify that the monitor navigates to the correct web pages during the transaction playback. Content match can be specified for each step of the transaction file. During playback, the downloaded page is parsed and the recorded content is matched with the corresponding page to check the authenticity of the transaction playback. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Positive | During playback, the downloaded page is checked for the specified positive match content. If the content is present in the page, then the playback is considered as successful. If the content is not present, then an error is reported and availability is set to zero. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Negative | During playback, the downloaded page is checked for the negative match content. If the content is not present in the page, then the playback is considered as successful. If the content is present, then an error is reported and availability is set to zero. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Insert | Click this to insert text as the content match. If the text assigned here is found in a page on the Web site, then the transaction is considered successful. The content match text that you assign is displayed in the field next to the Content Match section. Note Go to Record > View Source to copy text for content match. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Delete | Select a content match text and click this to delete it from being a content match. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Update | Click this to select an already assigned content match text and make changes to it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Title Match | Select this option to enable Title Match. Page title can be recorded as part of the transaction file. As with Positive Content Match, the downloaded page is checked for the Title during playback. Title match can be used to validate rendered pages without manually insert content matches. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ready | Indicates the status of the Web Capture tool. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Recording | Indicates the status of the Web Capture tool. |