Loading and monitoring applications

This section describes how to manage the PATROL Agent as it monitors an application and explains the following topics:

• How to instruct the agent to load a KM
• How to begin monitoring when the agent starts up
• How to monitor when a console with the application loaded connects to the agent
• How to not monitor
• How to set blackouts for various PATROL objects

This section also provides information about how to use agent configuration variables as filters to exclude or include certain applications and application instances in the following sections:

• Application status
• Preloading KMs on the PATROL Agent
• Preloading applications
• Removing KMs from the agent preload list
• Designating applications as static
• Disabling applications
• Filter processing logic for disabling KMs
• Listing loaded applications
• Selecting which instances to monitor