A common request we get from customers after creating distributed applications is how to edit or update them. This request is often based on a requirement to enhance the service model by adding in some synthetic transactions to emulate the end-user experience of a particular application.
In the Management Pack Templates section of Chapter 3, Exploring the Consoles we introduced you to the different synthetic transaction options that can be created using default templates in OpsMgr. In the next exercises, we will create two new monitors with these templates – one to check the availability and performance of a corporate website hosted outside the organization and another to validate that a specific TCP port is open on an internal server. When these synthetic transactions have been created, we will add them to the service model of the Demo IT Service distributed application we previously deployed.