WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.2 Advanced Usage Guide

The addition of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor to the Tivoli product portfolio enhanced Tivoli offerings for application management. WebSphere Studio Application Monitor enables comprehensive monitoring and management of J2EE-based applications with their back-end platforms.

This IBM Redbook demonstrates advanced uses of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor to solve day-to-day operational problems. The book is intended for system administrators who want to use WebSphere Studio Application Monitor for monitoring Web-based applications. We do not discuss implementation issues in this book.

We present WebSphere Studio Application Monitor concepts and offer usage details such as:
- System administration of day-to-day operations, from grouping and security design to maintenance tasks.
- Problem determination for WebSphere-based applications to assist with common problems that may occur in your environment.
- Management and analysis of composite applications, which span multiple application servers and can be hard to manage, with demonstrations of composite applications across J2EE servers, CICS, and IMS.

Chapter 1. Introducing application management
Chapter 2. WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.2 overview
Chapter 3. Managing WebSphere Studio Application Monitor
Chapter 4. \Managing production environment
Chapter 5. Analyzing WebSphere application problems
Chapter 6. Analyzing composite application problems
Appendix A. Sample scenario setup
Appendix B. Installation tips

• IBM Power 595 Technical Overview and Introduction, REDP-4440-00
• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, GG24-3376-07
• Patterns: SOA Design Using WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere ESB, SG24-7369-00

Publish Date
25 July 2005

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Author(s)

Budi Darmawan is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about all areas of Tivoli systems management products. Before joining the ITSO six years ago, Budi worked in IBM Indonesia Integrated Technology Solution as lead solution architect and performer. His expertise ranges from distributed systems to mainframe solutions, and he has worked with various Tivoli Management Framework based solutions, z/OS-based systems management solutions, DB2 in multiple platforms, and Web-based management solutions. His current interests are business service management, performance management, and Java programming.

• Budi Darmawan

Carter Brooking is a Customer Solutions Engineer on the Tivoli SWAT team in Texas. He has five years of experience in the Composite Application Management field focusing on IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance and Java development. He holds a computer science degree from Rice University. His areas of expertise include Java programming and database design.

• Carter Brooking

Nichole Cargill is a Senior Accredited IT Specialist on the Americas, Tivoli Composite Application Management (ITCAM) technical support team in Illinois. She has worked at IBM for three years with a primary focus on installation and configuration of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor (WSAM) for WSAM Proof of Concepts. She holds a four-year degree in Business Management, two-year degree in Computerized Business Systems/Accounting, and a two-year degree in Data Processing Technology. Prior to her employment at IBM, she spent nine years employed with Caterpillar, Inc., assuming many different positions including: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) standard, design, and implementation; WebSphere MQ and CrossWorlds (now known as WebSphere Business Integration) implementation and support; COBOL programming: system support; and operations support.

• Nichole Cargill

Bart Jacob is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist in the IBM International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has 23 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM products and technologies, including communications, object-oriented software development, and systems management. He has more than 10 years of experience at the ITSO, where he has been writing IBM Redbooks and creating and teaching workshops around the world on a variety of topics. He holds a Master's degree in Numerical Analysis from Syracuse University.

• Bart Jacob

Jason Meiers is a Software Engineer on the Application Management Solutions team in San Francisco, California, with two years of experience in the J2EE Application Management field. Jason holds a degree in Information Systems from University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany. His areas of expertise include J2EE and WebSphere. Jason has written extensively about describing advanced usage, configuration, and tuning of the managing server, data collector, and octigate database migration and configuration.

• Jason Meiers

Karel Michek is a Solution Architect at IBM Czech Republic. His areas of expertise include object oriented analysis and design with UML, enterprise Java programming, and database design. Karel has been focusing on the WebSphere family of products primarily in business integration area. He holds a Master's degree in computer science from Czech Technical university in Prague, and a number of IBM (WebSphere) and SUN (Java) certifications.

• Karel Michek

Kimberly Nguyen-Theunissen is a senior software engineer at IBM working as a Customer Solutions Engineer on the Tivoli SWAT team in Austin. She has 11 years of experience in the software research and development field. Her areas of expertise include systems management and database administration and, currently, architecture and deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring product solutions. She holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Louisiana State University.

• Kimberly Nguyen-Theunissen

ISBN

0738493775

IBM Form Number
SG24-6764-00

Number of pages
212