Command line tools

tang-IT ARM definition tools

The following tools can be used to view, create and delete ARM definitions of ARM application, ARM transaction and ARM metric definition data. From version ARM 3.0 to ARM 4.0 the model how such meta definition data is maintained has changed dramatically. ARM 3.0 required some out-of-band data management tools whereas the main concept of ARM 4.0 of providing definition data is through the standard API. tang-IT ARM supports both ways of creating ARM definition data.

armapp: maintains ARM application definitions.
armtran: maintains ARM transaction definitions. See Screenshot 1 for a sample usage of the armtran tool.
armmetric: maintains ARM metric definitions.
armuser: maintains ARM user definitions.

tang-IT ARM application and transaction instance tools

The following tools operate on application and transaction instances. The user can define some constraints to limit the operation to instances with these constraints. These constraints are mainly:

Start time range (from start until end date) of transactions and applications
Stop time range (from start until end date) of transactions and applications
Minimum and maximum durations of transactions and applications
Status and possible associated user of a transaction

armexport: allows to export from one backend format to another
armdelete: allows to delete application and transaction instances
armquery: allows to query and display ARM application and transaction instances
armcorrelate: builds correlation information to query parent/child relationships

Screenshot 1: tang-IT ARM query and transaction command line tools

tang-IT ARM support tools

There are some useful support tools, especially tools for providing a simple and easy way to generate an ARM ID.

armidsrv: provides service for generating ARM IDs
armidclnt: obtains an ARM ID from the armidsrv