The Web and Business tiers in the Application View provide a visual indication of problems with the performance and availability of application servers, compared to the set Minor and Critical thresholds. You can use the information presented on the Web and Business tiers (also known as presentation and logic tiers) to identify performance and availability problems in your application. The information presented by the tiers is based on monitoring data from the App Visibility agents.
The assignment of an application server as a Web or Business tier depends how App Visibility Manager recognizes most of the transactions on the server:
For information about transaction types, see Analyzing business transactions.
This topic presents the following information about the application servers tiers:
To see the Application View tab, your system must include BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager and you must have
Application Operator
-level access, or higher.
In the Application View, the Web and Business tiers display the number of servers that have one or more transaction problems (latency violations or errors) during the selected period. The tiers display the following information:
The following example describes the information in the Web and Business tiers:
In the Tier Members section of the page, click a filter to show or hide application servers with the selected status.
Filters for servers with Critical and Minor events are selected by default to show the servers with detected issues.
Click one or more server names to examine problem details.
For selected servers, the following details are displayed:
On the Summary tab, you can compare relative values for selected servers. For example, you might want to examine the server with the largest number of hits per second, or with the greatest percentage of latency violations.
For selected servers, the following details are displayed on the Summary tab, below the Tier Members section. Click a column heading to sort entries.
Column | Description |
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Action menu | Select Show Business Transactions to examine transaction details |
Severity icon | Representation of the severity level of events on the server |
Application Server Name | Name of the application server |
Hits/Sec | Estimated number of requests sent to the servers per second Variations in the reported metrics might occur between the values in the tier box and the total of tier members because of the way fractional results are calculated. |
Impacted Transactions | Percentage of transactions on the server with latency violations or errors that exceed defined thresholds |
Latency Violations | Percentage of transactions on the server with latency violations |
Errors | Percentage of transactions on the server with errors |
The following example describes how the status is determined per transaction entry point, and how this can differ for the application or server status.
Click the Problems tab to examine the problems detected on the selected servers. Problems include latency violations, errors, and server metrics.
For selected servers, the following details are displayed. Click a column heading to sort entries.
Column | Description |
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Severity icon | Representation of the problem severity level The severity level remains unchanged until all transaction and server problems of that level are closed. |
Problem | Brief description, such as |
Application Server Name | Name of the application server |
Problem Started | Time and date that the problem started which caused the displayed severity If the problem started earlier than the displayed time, click the start time to reset the time selection. The time slider moves to the five-minute period that includes the problem start time. |
Threshold | For application server metrics, the value of the threshold that was crossed For transactions, which represent an aggregation of entry points, the threshold value is not applicable (N/A). For a list of default threshold values, see Application metrics and problems. To view the transaction thresholds, see Viewing event thresholds (SLAs) of applications. |
Current Status | Open or Closed, which represents the current status of the problem, and time in which the problem was resolved, if applicable |
Analyzing business transactions
Setting up applications for monitoring
Analyzing end-user experience with the User tier
Analyzing database problems with the Database tier
Monitoring synthetic transactions by application