Creating services based on service tests

As discussed in Chapter 4, services can be defined based on system targets or based on service tests executed by different beacon targets. In the previous chapter, we saw the steps to model a business service as a service target based on system. In this chapter, we will see the detailed steps in configuring, modeling, and monitoring services based on service tests executed by beacon targets.

Creating Generic Service based on host ping test

In this section, we will see the steps to create a Generic Service target based on a Host Ping test. Although the example taken here is that of a Generic Service, the steps are common for creation of a web application or forms application based on service tests. However, while the Generic Service target supports a wide range of service test types, web application and forms application targets support service tests of types web transaction and forms transaction only.

To create a Generic Service target, the administrator...