Monitor Application Experience with Application Tests
Create synthetic tests originating from an application to one or more targets.
You can create only one test per application, but an app test can have multiple
targets.
| Where Can I Use This? | What Do I Need? |
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- Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
- Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama)
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- Prisma Access license
- ADEM or Strata Cloud Manager Pro
license
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One of the monitoring techniques that ADEM uses is application tests. Application tests allow ADEM to baseline end-to-end user experience
regardless of whether users access an application. You can create
application tests that simulate the monitoring done by ADEM. An application can have only one app
test associated with it, but that app test can monitor multiple
targets.
Web and path tests will be enabled by default for pre-defined tests.
Creating Application Tests for Mobile Users and Mobile User
Groups
When creating application tests, you have the option to enable the test
on an individual Mobile User, a Mobile User group, or both. You can
enable application tests for user groups that are already part of
Prisma Access Configuration (for example, GlobalProtect
configuration or security policies).
Keep the following points about Mobile User Group application tests in
mind:
- The tests that you enable on a user group will run on all
devices that belong to every single user in that group.
- If a user is removed from a user group, the tests will
automatically stop running on the user's devices.
- When new users are added to a group, the tests automatically
begin running on the new users' devices. However, it may
take up to 6 hours to automatically update users that are
added/removed from groups.
- If an application test is modified or created, changes made to
the user group are automatically reflected.
You can filter the test results by individual Mobile Users or Mobile User
groups (only groups currently in test configuration).
Security Policy Rules for Application Testing
In order to run synthetic tests—to SaaS applications or applications in
your data center through Prisma Access, Secure Fabric, via split
tunneling—you must have security policy rules that allow the
synthetic test traffic over ICMP, TCP, HTTPS, and optionally HTTP
(depending on how you configure your app tests).
