Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

I would like to know if System Center 2012 can support Synthetic Transaction monitoring. what i need is that the SC 2012 will have to capture the synthetic transactions being generated by the third party generator. These transactions captured by SC 2012,
will have to provide transaction breakdown time between Web, App and DB layer’s and give over all End User experience.
Can any one suggest how SC 2012 will handle such requests? how to set it up? what KPI will SC 2012 do today for synthetic transaction monitoring.
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Michael Martin

Hi Michael,
I don't think it is a big deal. Web Application Transaction Monitoring is performed by sending HTTP requests to your application from specified Watcher Node (Management Server itself, SCOM Agent or GSM points worldwide using appropriate subscription
http://stefanroth.net/2014/01/06/scom-global-service-monitor-using-visual-studio-web-test/). Just check out that your app is available and responds well to those HTTP requests, for sure it's better to record Web Application Transaction tests on
Watcher node explicitly.
Igor Savchenko, VIAcode Consulting LLC (http://www.viacode.com/)

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