Enabling ARM transactions

If the application that you want to monitor is not one of the supported domains, but it is an ARM-instrumented application you can still monitor it using ITCAM for Transactions. However, before you can monitor ARM transactions some customization may be necessary after you have installed the Transaction Tracking or Response Time components.

Support for ARM-instrumented applications is available in ITCAM for Transactions V7.1 and later.

The Transaction Collector agent supports monitoring ARM-instrumented applications. Installing Transaction Collector automatically installs support for all ARM-instrumented applications.

The Transaction Collector replaces the V6.2 Client Response Time agent for monitoring ARM applications.

Table 1 lists the intra-domain and inter-domain tracking supported by Transaction Tracking for the ARM domain.

Table 1. ARM - domain interactions supported
Domain interactions tracked Notes
ARM to and from ARM  
ARM to WebSphere Application Server Using ITCAM for Application Diagnostics
ARM to WebSphere Application Server Using WASTT
ARM to web servers
  • Robotic Response Time (T6) scripts
  • Web servers running the WebSphere web server plug-in:
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • IBM HTTP Server
    • Lotus Domino
    • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
    • Sun Java System Web Server
  • WebSEAL
  • On Demand Router (ODR)
WebSphere Application Server to DB2 Enabling ARM on DB2 is not recommended.

Enabling ARM transactions:

To enable ARM transactions:
  1. Ensure that you understand the ARM data collection process.
  2. Check the general requirements.
  3. Configure ARM.
  4. Configure the ARM-instrumented application, for example, WebSphere.
Parent topic: Installing and configuring Transaction Tracking Data Collector plug-ins