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• Business Dashboard toolbar
• Application Structure Overview pane
• Application Status pane

Figure 2- 1 Precise Business Dashboard screen

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To configure your Application Structure and define its settings, see “Configuring Configuring your application structure” on page 21structure. Selecting an entity (application group or application) in the Application Structure Overview pane displays the associated information in the Application Status pane.

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The following table describes the function of each of the toolbar elements.

Table 2- 1 TPM toolbar elements

Item	Name	Description
Image Modified	Send E-mail	Sends an email message with a link to view the appropriate data.
Image Modified	Configuration	Opens the Configuration screen to view, add, or edit current configurations.
Image Modified	Refresh	Manually updates the data currently displayed for the defined time frame.
Image Modified	View	Allows you to select a specific view, displaying information for a subset of all monitored application groups. The drop-down menu contains the following view options: Critical Application Groups Application Groups with Poor Health All Application Groups (default)
Image Modified	Time Frame	Allows you to select the desired time range for the displayed data. The time frame options include the option to define a customizable option using the calendar icon, in addition to the following predefined options: Last hour (1h) Last 6 hours (6h) (default) Last day (1d) Last 2 days (2d) Last 7 days (7d) Last 4 weeks (4w)
Image Modified	Auto Refresh	Turns Auto Refresh On/Off. Offering the same functionality as the manual Refresh button, but enables you to configure the system to automatically refresh the information displayed or not.
Image Modified	Node	The Node field shows you which Precise node is currently displayed. Info The Node field is only displayed when more than one Precise node is installed, and only on Precise applications with the TPM version 8.8 patch installed.
Image Modified	Expand	Expands the Application Structure Overview pane, and hide the Application Status pane.
Image Modified	Collapse	Collapses the Application Structure Overview pane, and unhide the Application Status pane.

The Node menu allows you to choose one of several installed Precise nodes for monitoring.

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Selecting a predefined time frame from the toolbar displays transaction performance data for the selected time period up to the current time. See “Selecting Selecting a predefined time frame from the TPM toolbar” on page 11toolbar.

Selecting the time frame using the calendar icon, you can choose to define a time range independent of the current time, or to define a time range up to the current time. See “Configuring Configuring the time frame using the calendar icon” on page 11icon.

The predefined time frame options are:

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The time frame selected affects the information that is displayed in both panes on the Business Dashboard screen. Only data that falls within the selected time frame is shown in these areas.

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Selecting a predefined time frame from the TPM toolbar

To select a predefined time frame

• From the TPM toolbar, select one of the predefined time frames.

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Configuring the time frame using the calendar icon

To configure the time frame

1. Click the Calendar icon. In the dialog box that is displayed:
   1. Select the ‘Time Range’ option and Select Time Range, and then select the Start and End dates and times.
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   2. Select the ‘Last’ option Last, and then enter the desired time frame.
2. Click OK.

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The default subject for the message will be “Precise Business Dashboard”is "Precise Business Dashboard".

The email will include a link to the Business Dashboard view in the current context (time frame and selected entries).

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• On the Business Dashboard toolbar, click Auto Refresh is Off. The icon will then say Auto Refresh is On.
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• In the Display tab in the Configuration screen, check mark the “Auto Refresh” box Auto Refresh.

Opening the Configuration screen

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The information displayed for SLA and Volume in this pane is solely based on transactions marked as key transactions for SLA and/or Volume. For details about key transactions, see “About About the application structure” on page 18structure.

The data in all the table columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order. In addition, the column width and order can be adjusted by dragging and dropping the column heading to the desired location.

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The names of the application groups are displayed in the Name column.

Table 2- 2 Types of Applications

Item	Name	Description
Image Modified	Application Group name	Indicates an application group.
Image Modified	Application name	Indicates a single application.

For more about the application structure, see “About see About the application structure” on page 18structure.

To configure the application structure, see “Configuring see Configuring your application structure” on page 21structure.

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About the Application Status pane

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To analyze a selected biz. transaction, user, or location, click on its link in the corresponding tab. See “Analyzing transaction performance” on page 14 Analyzing transaction performance.

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Analyzing transaction performance

Transaction performance is analyzed by launching Insight SmartLink (if configured) or Precise for Web for a selected business transaction, user or location. When SmartLink is configured, the Transactions view is launched. When SmartLink for PeopleSoft is configured, the Web Expert view is launched.

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From the Display tab, you can enable/disable the Auto Refresh function and define the information collection settings. The following table describes the functions of the Configuration screen elements.

Table 2- 3 Configuration screen elements

Item	Name	Description
Image Modified	Business Dashboard	Click to open the Business Dashboard screen.
Image Modified	Node	The Node field shows you which Precise node is currently displayed. Info The Node field is only displayed when more than one Precise node is installed, and only on Precise applications with the TPM version 8.8 patch installed. Info The Node field will never be displayed in the Health tab as the Health settings are global.
Image Modified	Add Application Group	In the Hierarchy tab, click this button to add a new application group.
Image Modified	Add Biz. Transaction	In the Hierarchy tab, click this button to add a new biz. transaction.

To filter the available applications, biz. transactions, users or locations, enter a name into the Filter field and click Filter.

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• Application Groups
• Applications
• Biz. Transactions.

Table 2- 4 Types of icons displayed in the left pane of the Hierarchy tab

Item	Name	Description
Image Modified	Application Group	Indicates application groups.
Image Modified	Application	Indicates a single application.
Image Modified	Biz. Transaction	Indicates a biz. transaction.

For more details about the application structure, see “About see About the application structure” on page 18structure.

From this pane, you can select a row and left-click to edit or delete an application group, single application, or biz. transaction.

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• Add an application group
• Edit
• Delete
• Designate and mark an application group to be critical. See “Scenario Scenario # 1 - Adding a new application group” on page 21. See “Scenario # group, Scenario # 2 - Editing an application group” on page 22. See “Scenario group, and Scenario # 3 - Deleting an application group” on page 22group.

For a biz. transaction, you can choose to:

• Add biz. transaction
• Edit
• Delete

See “Scenario Scenario # 4 - Adding a new biz. transaction” on page 22. See “Scenario transaction, Scenario # 5 - Editing biz. transactions” on page 23. See “Scenario transactions, and Scenario # 6 - Configuring key transactions” on page 23transactions.

About the Health tab

In the Health tab, you can view and configure the health status definitions for the application structure.

The health status icons ("Good", "At Risk", "Poor" or "No Data") represent the health status of an application or application group. The health status is first calculated based on the combined percentage of SLA compliance and availability according to a user defined ratio. The health status icon is then based on user defined thresholds.

See “Scenario Scenario # 9 - Customizing the Health status” on page 24status.

About the Display tab

In the Display tab, you can define the information collection settings:

• Enable/disable the Auto Refresh function.

See “Scenario Scenario # 10 - Enabling/Disabling Auto Refresh” on page 25Refresh.

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