BMC TM ART Monitor Workbench - Micro Focus

What's New and Changed
4 | What's New and Changed
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support
BMC TM ART Central now supports Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Oracle RAC allows multiple
computers to run Oracle RDBMS software simultaneously while accessing a single database, thus providing
a clustered database. To access an Oracle RAC database, select the Oracle RAC DBMS type on Central's
Database Settings page, which then allows you to specify multiple Oracle DBMS connections.
Enhanced Support for Rich Internet Applications
BMC TM ART Monitor Workbench 3.9 offers greatly improved efficiency in the monitoring of Web and
FLEX/AMF3 applications.
• Improved Efficiency for Web Monitoring - BMC TM ART Monitor Workbench now provides a wizard for
recording rules, which automates the parameterization and session correlation of Web business-transactions.
This reduces scripting effort. Predefined templates guide you through visually creating complex rules without
the need of manual scripting.
Recording rules can be shared within your team, allowing multiple people to record applications out-of-the-box
rather than spending time on repeated customizations.
Recording rules allow you to configure the Recorder in a number of ways. Example use cases include
session customizations, excluding JPG images from download while recording Web pages, and excluding
Web pop-ups and ads that originate from a specific URL.
BMC TM ART Monitor Workbench enables you to create, edit, copy, and remove recording rules via the
tab (System Settings ➤ Recorder ➤ Recording Rules).
You can also create a new recording rule out of TrueLog Explorer, using the values that you have specified
in a parsing function. For example, creating a recording rule from a session-customization parsing function
allows you to record the application without the need to ever care about session customization again.
• Improved Flex/AMF3 Support - Flex/AMF3 support now features a Java serialization process that greatly
improves readability and your ability to customize monitor scripts. With these improvements, BMC TM ART
Monitor Workbench now supports the complete set of AMF3 features.
By selecting the Flex/AMF3 application type (which replaces the out-dated Flash Remoting application
type), some Web transform settings and a JVM profile setting are configured for you automatically. Most
significantly, AMF3 traffic streams now appear in a readable XML representation that includes fewer AMF3
syntactical tags.
Flex/AMF3 support requires the configuration of Flex/AMF3-application specific custom JAR files that
contain classes that are necessary for the serialization of code into correct XML representation.
• Multibyte Enablement for AMF3 - BMC TM ART Monitor Workbench is now capable of recording and
replaying Flex/AMF traffic that contains multibyte data.
• Support for Headless AMF3 Traffic - AMF3 data marshaling is sometimes used in combination with other
technologies, such as Web Services. In such scenarios, AMF3 header information can now be successfully
omitted.