Monitoring Forms applications

The most interesting feature of Forms Management using Grid Control is to perform Service Level Management for Forms applications. You can create/model Forms application target in Grid Control and use that to monitor your Forms application. For example, you have built a custom application such as an HR, Finance, or Customer Service and deployed that to the web. You can use Grid Control to monitor the performance of Forms application. You may remember our discussion in Chapter 4,Managing Oracle WebLogic Server, where we created a web application for a custom Java application. You can use a similar approach to define, monitor, and playback a specific flow of your Forms application, where each flow is recorded as a single Forms transaction. Simply put, a Forms transaction consists of a set of user actions within a single application when using Forms, for example, querying an employee record. Grid Control allows you to record multiple Forms transactions by using...