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Support for CA Transaction Impact Manager

Multi-Port Monitor captures HTTP packets for CA Transaction Impact Manager (TIM).

• CA TIM passively monitors traffic from mirrored ports.
• CA TIM records HTTP and HTTPS packets to identify user logins and related transactions for the following products:
  • CA Customer Experience Manager (CA CEM)
  • CA Application Performance Management (CA APM)
• CA TIM performs Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) decoding.

When CA TIM is installed on the Multi-Port Monitor appliance, the resulting converged appliance provides visibility into the application and network-level data of application usage per user. As a standalone appliance, CA TIM monitors HTTP transactions in real time and generates defects when it detects anomalies. Multi-Port Monitor provides session-level data at 1-minute intervals. With the converged appliance, this finer granularity of data can be used to investigate the defects that CA TIM detects. Use the CA APM console to drill down from defects to related data in the Multi-Port Monitor web interface.

The web interface lets you perform administrative and maintenance tasks for CA TIM.

The following diagram shows the components in a network in which Multi-Port Monitor, CA APM, and CA Application Delivery Analysis are installed.

As shown in the diagram, Multi-Port Monitor can support CA TIM and CA Application Delivery Analysis simultaneously. In this scenario, packets for CA TIM and CA Application Delivery Analysis are processed in parallel. Separate RAM disks help buffer packets for both applications.

• For CA Application Delivery Analysis, Multi-Port Monitor provides all packets with headers only.
• For CA TIM, Multi-Port Monitor provides filtered HTTP packets with a full payload.

More information:

What are the Default Hardware Filters?

Install the CA TIM Software