Transaction Tracking Overview (deprecated)

This workspace displays an overview of the Transaction Reporter, and highlights any problems that your system might have. Monitor the component topology, the response time of business applications, and time deviations for all categories. This workspace is deprecated in ITCAM for Transactions V7.3 and later. You will only have access to this workspace if you are upgrading to ITCAM for Transactions V7.3 from an earlier version.

Using this workspace

Use this workspace to isolate problems within the components, applications, and transactions of your enterprise.

It contains three views in addition to the standard Navigator view:

  • Component Aggregate Topology
  • Business Application Transaction Time
  • Deviations
Figure 1. The Transaction Tracking Overview workspace

The Transaction Tracking Overview workspace

Use the Component Aggregate Topology view to observe a visual representation of the connections between different components on your system. Move the mouse over a node or link to display hover help. Link to another workspace by right-clicking a node, selecting Link To, and selecting the workspace you wish to view.

Use the Business Application Transaction Time view to monitor the response time of transaction interactions between business applications on your system.

Note: Business applications are applications that are also originator nodes of a composite application. These can be identified by their green triangles when viewing the Application Topology workspace.

Use the Deviations view to determine which interactions have the largest time deviations from a set baseline value. This is a composite list of time deviations in all categories: Applications, Components, Servers, and Transactions. Table 1 describes the fields in this table.

Table 1. Deviations table
Column Description
Group Level Displays the type of aggregate.
Name The name of the Application, Component, Server, or Transaction.
Total Time Average total transaction time of the transactions that make up the aggregate.
Total Time Deviation Deviation of the total response time from the determined baseline, measured as a percentage from the baseline.
Percent Failed Percentage of transaction instances that failed.
Percent Slow Percentage of transaction instances that were slow.
Percent Good Percentage of transaction instances that were good.

Accessing this workspace

Access this workspace by selecting Transaction Reporter > Transaction Tracking Overview in the Navigator view.

Links to other workspaces

From this workspace, you can link to a number of different workspaces.

In the Component Aggregate Topology view, right-click a node and select Link To to access the Applications workspace or the Component Detail workspace.

In the Business Application Transaction Time view, right-click a bar in the bar graph and select Link To to access the Application Topology workspace.

You can also view a more detailed Topology workspace for a specific application, component, server or transaction by clicking the link icon in the table in the Deviations view.