Reconfiguring the Response Time Monitoring on Windows

Use the rt-agent interactive configuration command or IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management utility to configure or reconfigure the agent.

Before you begin

If you are enabling HTTPS transaction monitoring, make sure that the Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server is not installed on the same machine. Otherwise the Response Time Monitoring configuration does not change the HTTPS setting for Packet Analyzer.

About this task

The Response Time Monitoring agent is configured automatically following installation. Follow the installation guidelines: Planning the installation. You might need to reconfigure, for example, if you want to monitor a different port or monitor HTTPS transactions.

The installation directory is referred to as install_dir. The default installation directory is: C:\IBM\APM\

As an alternative to using the rt-agent interactive configuration command, you can configure the agent in the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management utility. For more information, see Using the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management window on Windows systems.

Procedure

To customize your data settings, complete the following steps:

  1. On the computer where the Response Time Monitoring agent is installed, stop the agent:
    install_dir\BIN\rt-agent.bat stop
  2. Use silent configuration to configure the agent:
    install_dir\BIN\rt-agent.bat config install_dir\samples\rt_silent_config.txt
    If you want to enable HTTPS transaction monitoring, uncomment the following lines in the silent configuration file. The sample of rt_silent_config.txt to configure the Response Time Monitoring agent to monitor HTTPS on Windows should look like this:
    # Monitor HTTPS transactions
    KT5MONITORHTTPSAPP=YES
    
    # HTTPS keystore (e.g. - /tmp/keys.kdb)
    KT5KEYSTORE=C:\keys\key.kdb
    
    # HTTPS server certificate map (eg - certAlias,9.48.152.1,443;...)
    KT5SERVERMAP=certalias,9.48.152.1,443
    
    # Monitor network traffic for the NIC hosts this IP address
    #KT5MONITORIP=9.48.152.1
  3. Restart the Response Time Monitoring agent for the changes to take effect:

    install_dir\BIN\rt-agent.bat start

Results

Data from the new source is displayed in the dashboards that are associated with Response Time Monitoring.