Application Activity Widget

The Application Activity Widget shows the activity on an application by presenting how many unique computers have accessed the application within a certain time period.

The widget can show this information about any application - including web-based activities that your PerformanceGuard administrator has defined. You can use the widget to gain more specific information than is provided by event monitoring. This in turn can help you identify the application(s) when particular colleagues use it.

The following steps must be done before you can set up and start using the Widget:

• Define an application

  You have to define the application in Network Applications before you can set up the widget. PerformanceGuard automatically creates an Application Online event when an application has been created.
  Technically, your administrator sets up PerformanceGuard applications to define this.

Tip

You must define Event Rules in Manage Thresholds and Events before adding the widget on your dashboard.

Tip

You must use the same Server / Port and Transaction filters used in an application when creating new Event rules

• Create Event Rules

Caution

If you want server-based information, select Event Type as IP Service - Application Online.

Caution

If you want web-based activity information, select Event Type as Transaction - Application Online.

Administration → Event management → Event rules
You can set up rules as Sever / Port (server-based application activity) or Transaction (web-based application activity):

• Transaction - Application Online

  • Your PerformanceGuard administrator has set up transaction filters, if not then simply create new and then create new event rule.

• IP Service - Application Online

  • Your PerformanceGuard administrator has set up Server / Port groups, if not then simply create new and then create new event rule.

Tip

You have to set Lower Threshold according to your requirements.

Set Up the Widget

Note

To set up a widget, you must be able to edit the dashboard. You can edit the dashboards that you created, and PerformanceGuard administrators can edit all dashboards except built-in ones. The widget catalog only shows the widgets that your user role gives you access to.

Before you set up the widget, find out if your administrator has set up the event rules described above that you want to view in the widget.

When you’re ready to add the widget to a dashboard, select the required information in the widget setup menus.

In Configure the number of allowed computers, you can enter the number of computers that are allowed to use the application. If more computers are seen, the widget changes color. Leave the field empty to turn this off. You can use multiple widgets to set different values for different locations.

Important

Example: You can see that the color for Cetrea and DC has changed to Red indicating that number of computers has exceeded than the limit set in the widget. Click thumbnail to view image in full size.

Select what You Want to View

Your PerformanceGuard administrator has typically set up the widget to display applications on your dashboard.
When that’s the case, you can simply use the Locations and Applications menus in the top part of the dashboard to view the number for computers for selected Time Period.

Tip

When you use the Locations menu, there’s a search field that you can use to search for locations.

The widget displays the application name and number of computers showing activity for the selected locations.