Utilising Information Points and Service Endpoints

Question 1

Add an information point

Answer 1

1. Name
2. Agent type (JAVA, .Net, PHP)
3. Class (+ full name of the method)
4. Method parameters
5. Match conditions
6. Define custom metrics using the method parameters of return values

Question 2

Information point, data can be collected from

Answer 2

1. method parameter at index
2. return values
3. invoked object

Question 3

Information point custom metric definition
operation on method or parameter

Answer 3

1. toString()
2. use Getter Chain

Question 4

Information point custom metric definition
Information points data rollup

Answer 4

1. Average
2. Sum

Question 5

Service entry point types

Answer 5

1. Servelet (change naming)
2. Struts action (?)
3. WebService
4. POJO
5. Spring Bean (default no)
6. EJB (default no)
7. JMS

Question 6

Service endpoint use case

Answer 6

1. ownership are for tiers and not BTs
2. allow to see a subset of the metrics for the tier
3. similar to BT except they only show metrics for the entry points and do not track metrics for any downstream segment