Configuring using the Agent Configuration Page

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You can use the Agent Configuration page in the Cloud APM console to see what agents are installed. Where applicable, you can disable or enable HTTP transaction monitoring and set the ports that are monitored by Response Time Monitoring agents.

Agent Configuration

To access the Response Time Monitoring Agent Configuration page, in the Cloud APM console, select System Configuration > Agent Configuration, then select the Response Time tab.

Screen capture of Response Time Monitoring configuration

The Agent Configuration page lists the systems in your environment on which Response Time Monitoring is installed.

For each system with a Response Time Monitoring agent installed, the Agent Configuration page shows:
  • Whether the system is online (check mark with green background) or offline (cross with red background).
  • The version of the Response Time Monitoring agent that is installed.
  • If central configuration cannot determine the type of the agent (that is, whether the Packet Analyzer or IBM HTTP Server Response Time module is being used to monitor HTTP transactions), only the agent is struck through. Generally, the type of agent can't be determined where the agent is not sending agent details through ASF activity.
  • Whether the system uses the default configuration values or has some custom values set.
  • The ports that are monitored if the Response Time Monitoring agent is using the Packet Analyzer to monitor HTTP transactions.
    Settings and values that are shown in the UI when the Packet Analyzer is used to monitor HTTP transactions
  • Whether IBM HTTP Server Response Time module, together with HTTP Server agent, is being used to monitor HTTP transactions.
    Setting and value that is shown in the UI when the IBM HTTP Server Response Time module is used to monitor HTTP transactions.
    Tip: IBM HTTP Server Response Time module monitors HTTP and HTTPS transactions automatically. No further configuration of the Response Time Monitoring agent is required.

Select an agent to display its configuration settings. To find a particular agent, enter part or all of the name of the system on which it is installed in the Filter field.

Customizations that are made on the Agent Configuration page take precedence over any other customization and over default values.

If you change your mind about the settings you changed, click Undo Changes to revert to the last settings that were saved, or click Revert to Default to revert to the default values.

The new configuration values are sent to Central Configuration Services and online agents are then automatically reconfigured without having to be restarted. If the agent is offline, it downloads the new configuration settings when it comes online. Data from the new ports is displayed in the dashboards that are associated with Response Time Monitoring when the data is refreshed.