Extended filtering for the Transaction Collector

The Transaction Collector in ITCAM for Transactions uses Application Management Configuration Editor configurations to filter transactions using transaction definition filter sets and maintenance schedules.

The Transaction Collector filters out all instances except those that match an active and running Application Management Configuration Editor transaction definition. If at least one Application Management Configuration Editor transaction definition matches an instance, the corresponding aggregate is active. Otherwise the corresponding aggregate is inactive.

The definition of include and exclude filters determines if an Application Management Configuration Editor transaction definition matches an aggregate.

The Transaction Collector does not require a matching client definition. For an individual Application Management Configuration Editor transaction definition to match an instance in the Transaction Collector, ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The instance does not occur during a maintenance window.
• The transaction definition is active and running.
• The transaction definition filter contains at least one include type filter.
• The aggregate for the instance does not contain any name/value pair that matches any exclude type filter.
• There is an aggregate name/value pair match for all of the include filters. When the same filter name is repeated multiple times, only one filter needs to match an aggregate name/value pair.

The Transaction Collector considers all configured aggregates active through a default Application Management Configuration Editor profile with an active and running transaction definition for all transaction categories.