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Active Context Tracking™ technology enabling business transaction management in a distributed environment. Rocky Mountain CMG Spring? ‘09 Forum. Agenda. Business context is sorely needed Introducing business context with ACT OpTier CoreFirst examples. Business context is sorely needed.
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Active Context Tracking™ technology enabling business transaction management in a distributed environment Rocky Mountain CMG Spring? ‘09 Forum
Agenda • Business context is sorely needed • Introducing business context with ACT • OpTier CoreFirst examples
Lack of business context IT symptoms • Problem isolation and resolution is ineffective • Support struggling to recreate problems • Problems “disappear” and “pop-up” without any notice • “All hands” calls and constant firefighting • Outages • In spite of widespread monitoring • Recovery times are difficult to manage with no visibility • Application rollouts effects are hard to predict • Capacity planning • Still don’t directly map business transactions to resources • Can’t predict the impact of specific systems scale issues • Shared service potential is hindered
Define a “Business Transaction”… • Business transactions are All tasks or services that an application provides to users or other applications (e.g., account balance query, stock trade, inventory update, risk compliance report, …) • Business transactions have • A unique business context (Who What When Where) • A unique technical profilecomposed of • Transaction flow topology across a set of IT components (e.g., Java beans, Web services, SQL queries) that execute on multiple tiers to jointly deliver the service • Performance metrics • Resource metrics 5
Business Transaction Management Business Transaction Management Application Management Systems Management End-user business transactions Increasing, varied demand Cross-tier transaction flow SOA/ESB integration Applications Consolidation,virtualization IT Infrastructure 6 6 6
Agent Agent Agent Agent DTE DTE DTE DTE Active Context Tracking™Providing business context and visibility by actively gluing business and IT Transaction topology map Management Server & Web GUI Transaction profiles collected User request DB Server App Server (.Net/J2EE) MSG Bus App Server Observed Tier Web Server DTE = Dynamic Tier Extension
Business transaction mapping • Automatic discovery of business transactions • Key metrics include: • Users, transaction types, transaction rates, performance and resources consumed • Examples here show service visibility with BTM
Infrastructure resource mapping • Automatic discovery of the service topology for transactions • Monitor resources consumed by each transaction at each tier • Report IT metrics with real business context • Example shows automatic topology capture and resource consumption graph for business transactions
Dynamic linking and E2E management • Each transaction is dynamically linked and monitored in real time • End to end flow and metrics are visible down to the single transaction instance • Examples here show transaction visibility on the type and instance levels
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