3 Discovering Services and Dependencies

This chapter explains how you use Business Transaction Management to discover containers, services, and dependencies. Using this information you can get an exact picture of how your distributed application works, what components have performance issues, and what components require closer monitoring. It includes the following sections:

For a complete and up-to-date list of the types of services and components that Business Transaction Management can discover and monitor, refer to the Business Transaction Management Certification Matrix. You can locate this document by searching for "BTM certification" at http://support.oracle.com.