Viewing an application's synthetic settings

To see synthetic settings for an application, you need to turn Synthetic on for the application and then configure the application accordingly. See Editing synthetic settings for an application for more details.

Synthetic configuration includes the following:

• Global SLA—Service Level Agreement that applies to all Execution Plans defined for this application.
• Blackout settings—Time periods when the Execution Plans do not run. 
• Execution Plans—Plans for running predefined scripts to simulate use of the application.

An Execution Plan provides the interface for a script and its execution. Through an Execution Plan, you specify configuration values for the script, indicate on which locations the script runs, and define the run schedule.

BMC Synthetic Transaction Execution Adapter (TEA) Agents can process up to 120 Execution Plans each.

This topic contains the following procedures:

• • To view the Global SLA for your application
  • To view synthetic blackout settings
  • To view the list of defined Execution Plans for an application
  • Related topics

To view the Global SLA for your application

1. On the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console, from the navigation page, select  Configuration > Applications.
2. Click the name of the application that you want to see.
3. Click the  Synthetic  tab. 
    

For more details about the specific metrics, see Monitoring-synthetic-transactions-in-the-Locations-view and Monitoring-synthetic-transactions-in-the-Executions-view.

To view synthetic blackout settings

1. On the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console, from the navigation page, select  Configuration > Applications.
2. Click the application that you want to see. 
3. Click the Synthetic tab to see the synthetic configuration details for the application.

4. Click  Blackout Settings button.
   
   The current blackout settings for the application are displayed.
   

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   The following details are displayed: 

   • Repeat on indicates weekly blackout periods  that occur at the same times on the same days:

     Parameter	Description
     Days of the week	Days on which you the blackout period occurs
     Start Time	Start time for the blackout period Start Time is the same for all selected days of the week.
     Duration	Length of the blackout period Duration is the same for all selected days of the week.

   • Occur once indicates a one-time blackout period:

     Parameter	Description
     Start Time	Start time for the blackout period
     Duration	Length of the blackout period

For more details about blackout settings, see Daylight-saving-time-and-blackout-periods.

To view the list of defined Execution Plans for an application

1. On the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console, from the navigation page, select  Configuration > Applications.
2. Click the name of the application that you want to see.

3. Click the Synthetic tab. 
   The Execution Plans that are defined for the application are listed:

   Column	Description
   Name	Name of the Execution Plan This name is always unique within an application. It is possible for different applications to have Execution Plans with the same name.
   Status	Active or Inactive Place the mouse cursor over the word Inactive to see the reason for the Deactivation. Possible causes are: User-initiated inactive status of an application User-initiated inactive status of an Execution Plan Blackout period of an application For more details, see Application-and-Execution-Plan-status.
   SLA Settings	Custom or Global Global indicates that the SLA for this Execution Plan conforms to the Global SLA for the application. Custom indicates that at least one of the metrics for this Execution Plan's SLA is customized.  Place the mouse cursor over the word Custom to see which metrics have custom values.
   Script Name	Name of the script used by the Execution Plan If the name ends with an ellipsis, the script name is too long to be displayed here. Place the cursor over the truncated script name to see the entire name.
   Locations	Number of locations in use by this Execution Plan Place the mouse cursor over the number of location to see the names of the individual locations.

To sort the list based on a specific column, click the relevant column heading. To sort in reverse order, click the column heading again.

Related topics

Editing an application's synthetic settings

Using-scripts-to-simulate-end-user-transactions

Application-and-Execution-Plan-status

Daylight-saving-time-and-blackout-periods

Preparing-Silk-Test-script-execution-for-synthetic-transaction-monitoring