What is the Generate Synthetic Transactions task?

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

What is the Generate Synthetic Transactions task?

When reviewing the CA Identity Manager (IM) VST (View Submitted Tasks) entries, there may be an entry for "Generate Synthetic Transactions"



With detailed entries like those below:



What is the Generate Synthetic Transactions task?

Environment

Release : 14.x

Component : CA IDENTITY SUITE (VIRTUAL APPLIANCE)

Resolution

The Synthetic Transaction is the result of Message Health check activities.  The Synthetic Transaction mentioned is IM generating activity in the JMS (Java Message Service) as a test.

For details on "Check Message Health" can be found in the CA IM Product documentation (link below)

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/identity-security/identity-manager/14-5/configuring/task-persistence/monitor-health-of-the-task-persistence-database.html