You can launch-in-context to IBM SmartCloud® Analytics - Log Analysis (SCALA). When you select a component in the navigator and enter a search term and time range, SCALA results that are specific to your selected component, are displayed in a new tab or window.
IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI can be integrated with SCALA version 1.1.0.3 or later. After integration, you can initiate searches of log information that are indexed by SCALA from the SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI. You might use this capability to find the root cause of a problem that is experienced by users or a bad status indicator on your application. For more information about SCALA, see the SCALA information center at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.iwa.doc_1.0/ic-homepage.html.
To use the search function, you need to identify the IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis server whose indexes you want to search. The SCALA server must have data sources configured that take log data from one or more components that comprise the applications that you are monitoring. Data sources need to be created with the fully qualified host name of the host where the monitored resource resides.
The search function uses host name information that is derived from the monitoring agent managed system name. Each SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI component is correlated with the host that supports it. Data sources that are created with the IP address for the host name attribute are not included in the search.
The search function is disabled until you configure a search provider. For more information about configuring a search provider, see Configuring search provider connections.