Implementing Synthetic Device Configuration

BMC strongly recommends implementing the Synthetic Device Configuration on a Real User Analyzer or Real User Monitor, so that you can more quickly realize value from your monitored synthetic transactions. Implement the device configuration on a new installation of the Real User Analyzer or Real User Monitor.

For a description of the configuration elements that are added for synthetic transaction monitoring, see Recommended-configuration-for-synthetic-monitoring.

This topic presents the following tasks to obtain the Synthetic Device Configuration, upload it to the system, and activate its contents:

• • Obtaining the Synthetic Device Configuration from the EPD website
  • Applying the Synthetic Device Configuration to the system
  • Where to go from here
  • Related topics

Obtaining the Synthetic Device Configuration from the EPD website

The Synthetic Device Configuration is available for download from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website at http://webapps.bmc.com/epd. To use the website, you must register and set up a user name and password. For information about downloading the device configuration, see Downloading installation files for synthetic monitoring.

The downloaded Synthetic-device-configuration.zip file contains the following files:

Applying the Synthetic Device Configuration to the system

To apply the device configuration, you upload the ZIP file to the Real User Analyzer or Real User Monitor.

To perform this procedure, you must have Administrator-level access, or higher.

To apply the Synthetic Device Configuration

1. Unzip the Synthetic-device-configuration.zip file.
2. Log into the Real User Analyzer or Real User Monitor with Administrator-level access or higher.
3. Backup your current configuration:
   
   1. Select the Administration tab.
   2. From the Manage configuration menu, select Download device configuration.
   3. Enter a passphrase. If you want to recover the backup configuration, you will need to reenter this passphrase.
4. Upload the device configuration:
   
   1. Select the Administration tab.
   2. From the Manage configuration menu, select Upload device configuration.
   3. Browse to truesight-cfg-device-synthetic.zip.
   4. Enter the passphrase, synthetic.
5. Click Save.

Where to go from here

Install BMC Synthetic Transaction Execution Adapter (TEA) Agents.

Related topics

Synthetic-transaction-configuration-workflow

Recommended-configuration-for-synthetic-monitoring

Monitoring-synthetic-transactions-to-predict-application-health-and-user-experience