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Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics Navision

Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics Navision

You will have to download the profiles from here: Download Desktop agent software

And then import them to the MCG UXM controller: Managing Desktop profiles

Note that profiles are depending on language, these profiles supports the English Navision version and will have to be customized to support other languages.

 

 

Profiles

Launch - ClickOnce

Measures how long time it takes to request the app through Microsoft ClickOnce deployment.

ClickOnce will download 25 MB if a Patch is send out for Navision and can be heavy on the network.

 

Start events:

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ObjectShowStarts monitoring when a windows with a title that contains "Launching" shows.

Complete events:

ActionDescription
processLaunchStops monitoring when the process Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe is launched. 

 

Incomplete events:

ActionDescription
ObjectShowDiscards the result if another windows with a title that contains "Launching" shows.

 

Launch

Measures how long time it takes to launch the Navision 2013 R2 desktop app.

 

Start events:

ActionDescription
processLaunchStarts monitoring when the process Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe is launched. 

Complete events:

ActionDescription
ObjectShowStops monitoring when a window with a title that contains " - Microsoft Dynamics NAV" shows.

 

Incomplete events:

ActionDescription
processLaunchDiscards the result if another Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe process is launched, only measures the last successful launch.

 

Change Company

Measures how long time it takes from clicking OK in the change Company dialog to Navision is usable again.

 

Start events:

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 LeftMouseClick Starts monitoring when the user clicks OK in the Select Company dialog.

Complete events:

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 ObjectShow Stops monitoring when a window with a title that contains " - Microsoft Dynamics NAV" is shown again.

 

Incomplete events:

ActionDescription
 LeftMouseClickDiscards the result if usre clicks on another button.

 

 

UBA - LeftMouseClick

Monitors all mouse clicks in the application and gathers name of clicked element and Window Title, this is used for "User Behavior Analysis" to figure out what users are using in the application and how much time they spend working in it.

Please note that the measured response time is very small, the PC Agent waits for the first ObjectShow, ObjectNameChange or ObjectFocus event that happend, you will have to create profiles for each Transaction you want to monitor and get the Real User Experience from.

 

Start events:

ActionDescription
LeftMouseClickStarts monitoring when the user does a LeftMouse click in the Navision application.
Capture text of what is clicked on and use as Identifier in Splunk.
Capture Window Title and use as Title in Splunk.

Complete events:

ActionDescription
ObjectShow, ObjectNameChange or ObjectFocusStops monitoring when a ObjectShow, ObjectNameChange or ObjectFocus event happens.

 

Incomplete events:

ActionDescription
LeftMouseClickDiscards the result if the start events are seen again, only measures the last successful "LeftMouseClick" action.