Monitoring Microsoft Excel
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 Excel version and will have to be customized to support other languages.
Profiles
Launch
Measures how long time it takes to launch the Excel 2013 / Excel 2016 desktop app.
Start events:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| processLaunch |
Starts monitoring when the process excel.exe is launched. |
Complete events:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ObjectShow |
Stops monitoring when a window with a title that equals "Excel" is seen. |
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| ObjectShow |
Stops monitoring when a window with a title that ends with " - Excel" is seen. |
Incomplete events:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| processLaunch |
Discards the result if another excel.exe process is launched, only measures the last successful launch. |
Create
Start events:
| Action | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
Complete events:
| Action | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
Incomplete events:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
Open
Save
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:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| LeftMouseClick |
Starts monitoring when the user does a LeftMouse click in the Excel 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:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
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ObjectShow, |
Stops monitoring when a ObjectShow, ObjectNameChange or ObjectFocus event happens. |
Incomplete events:
| Action | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| LeftMouseClick |
Discards the result if the start events are seen again, only measures the last successful "LeftMouseClick" action. |