Application Diagnostics for BMC PATROL

This topic describes the information that is displayed in Infrastructure Management Application Diagnostics for BMC PATROL integration.

BMC AppSight captures BMC PATROL invocation data when an event exceeds a defined threshold. Through Infrastructure Management, you can examine performance statistics and code-level data about a BMC PATROL invocation instance.

Note

An invocation can use a parameter to determine its actions, such as in a Java Struts Framework. A specified parameter name (action, by default) and its value are displayed at the end of the invocation name. You can customize the parameter name by changing the value of the invocation.action.parameter.name property in the appsightconsole.properties file. The file is located on the BMC AppSight Repository server, in the installationDirectory/server/properties directory.

The Infrastructure Management Application Diagnostics invocation tree displays the call stack and the exceptions involved in a selected invocation flow. Information in the call stack can be useful to determine the source of application issues such as slowed performance or accuracy errors.
When you click a link in the Invocation list, the Infrastructure Management Application Diagnostics window displays the call stack of the invocation.

Application Diagnostics invocation attributes 

The Application Diagnostics window displays performance statistics about the technologies involved in each captured invocation, as described in the following table.

Attribute

Description

Invocation

Invocation path
Click the link to see the invocation tree. For more information, see Infrastructure-Management-Application-Diagnostics-invocation-tree.

Start

Start time of the invocation

Duration

Duration of the invocation

Exceptions

If an exception occurs on the invocation, the name of the first exception (alphabetically) is displayed.
If the invocation has more than one exception, click the link to see an alphabetical list of all exceptions.

Server

IP address and port number where the transaction was captured, in the following format: IP:port

Breakdown

Bar chart that represents the percentage of time occupied by each technology in the invocation.
See Infrastructure-Management-Application-Diagnostics-invocation-tree for a list of the technologies that can be displayed.

 

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