WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.2 advanced usage guide / Budi Darmawan ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darmawan, Budi.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 Redbooks publication 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. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Chapter 1. Introducing application management

1.1 Application management challenges

1.2 Tivoli application management solution

1.3 Project overview

1.4 Project environment

Chapter 2. WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.2 overview

2.1 WebSphere Studio Application Monitor overview

2.2 Architecture and interconnection

2.2.1 The managing server

2.2.2 Data collector

2.3 Supported environment

2.4 Monitoring features

2.4.1 Administration

2.4.2 Availability

2.4.3 Problem determination

2.4.4 Performance analysis

2.5 New features in V3.2

2.5.1 Memory Leak Analysis

2.5.2 Lock analysis

2.5.3 WebSphere Portal Server metrics

2.5.4 z/OS data collector changes

2.5.5 WebSphere Application Server 6 Support

2.5.6 Trap and alert management

2.5.7 Help system is now using Eclipse InfoCenter format

2.5.8 Performance enhancement

Chapter 3. Managing WebSphere Studio Application Monitor

3.1 Overview

3.2 Security considerations

3.2.1 Node authentication default properties

3.2.2 Users and roles

3.3 Server management

3.3.1 Server groups

3.3.2 Data collector configuration

3.3.3 Monitoring level considerations

3.3.4 Sampling rate considerations

3.4 Database management

3.4.1 Migration from V3.1

3.4.2 Database backup

3.4.3 Maintaining database performance

3.4.4 Cleaning up the database

3.5 Managing server parameters

3.5.1 Component heap sizes

3.5.2 JDBC driver properties

3.5.3 Kernel host properties

3.5.4 Port definitions

3.5.5 Essential managing server tools

3.5.6 Split server installation

3.6 Data collector administration

3.6.1 Configuration files for data collector.

3.6.2 Log-level settings

3.6.3 Data collector log files cleanup

Chapter 4. \Managing production environment

4.1 Production environment definition

4.2 An operator's typical day

4.3 Reports

4.3.1 Report types

4.3.2 Performing capacity planning

4.3.3 Report usage

4.4 Performance tuning

4.4.1 Development perspective

4.4.2 Administration perspective

4.4.3 Runtime perspective

4.5 Notification

4.6 Working with composite applications

4.6.1 CICS composite application

4.6.2 IMS composite application

Chapter 5. Analyzing WebSphere application problems

5.1 Problem scenarios

5.2 Memory leaks

5.2.1 Symptoms

5.2.2 Investigating a potential memory leak

5.2.3 Narrowing the cause of a memory leak

5.2.4 Determining the memory leak offender

5.2.5 Resolution

5.2.6 About this scenario

5.3 Deadlock management

5.3.1 Planning the problem resolution

5.3.2 Performance analysis

5.3.3 Lock Analysis preparation

5.3.4 Lock analysis

5.3.5 Historic lock information

5.3.6 About this scenario

5.4 Analyzing a slow-performing application

5.4.1 Planning problem resolution for a slow application

5.4.2 Performance analysis for a slow-performing application

5.4.3 Identification of affected modules and servers

5.4.4 Comparing system resources

5.4.5 About the scenario

5.5 Database performance

5.5.1 Planning the problem resolution

5.5.2 Analyzing the affected data source

5.5.3 Re-creating the problem

5.5.4 Application post-deployment activities

5.5.5 About the scenario

Chapter 6. Analyzing composite application problems

6.1 Problem scenarios

6.2 CICS composite transaction

6.2.1 About this scenario

6.3 IMS composite transaction

6.3.1 About this scenario

6.4 CICS resource enqueue

6.4.1 Symptoms of resource enqueuing.

6.4.2 Investigating CICS resource enqueue

6.4.3 About this scenario

6.5 CICS transaction loops

6.5.1 Symptoms of looping transaction

6.5.2 About this scenario

6.6 CICS DSA growth

6.6.1 Monitoring storage growth

6.6.2 About the scenario

Appendix A. Sample scenario setup

Environment overview

WebSphere applications used

Memory leak sample

Locking application sample

Distributed Application Sample

CICS application setup

Trader CICS application

Setting up CICS for TraderCICS

Connecting WebSphere for TraderCICS

IMS application setup

Trader IMS application

Setting up IMS for TraderIMS

Connecting WebSphere for TraderIMS

Putting in the load

WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator

Rational Robot

Sample Java program

Appendix B. Installation tips

Embedded installation problems

Composite transaction problems

Appendix C. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"This edition applies to Version 3, Release 2 of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor (product numbers 5724-K79, 5697-J18, 5697-J17, and 5697-J01)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

63687269