IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for AD 7.1 Usage

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Application Diagnostics provides real-time problem detection, analysis, and repair to help maintain the availability and performance of on-demand composite applications. In this hands-on workshop, you learn:

• Key concepts of ITCAM for Application Diagnostics
• Architecture of ITCAM for Application Diagnostics
• Product configuration
• How to use the product to monitor for availability
• How to perform problem determination
• Troubleshooting with both the Application Monitor (deep-dive) interface and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Profil uczestnika

This basic course is for operations staff, administrators, and application owners and analysts. Technical professionals with a need to monitor availability and performance as well as application analysts needing to analyze performance issues will benefit from this course.

Agenda

Introduction to ITCAM for Application Diagnostics 7.1

• Composite application management
• Key product features
• Introduction to architecture
• Software packaging

ITCAM for Application Diagnostics 7.1 administration

• Configuring new data collectors
• Users and roles
• Server groups
• Monitoring On Demand
• Managing server tools
• Byte code instrumentation

Monitoring availability

• Systems overview
• Server Statistics overview
• Recent Activity display
• System resources
• Availability for z/OS, CICS, and IMS

Tivoli Enterprise Portal interface

• Deployment overview
• Introducing Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics workspaces

Real-time problem determination

• Server Activity display
• In-Flight Request search
• Web Session browser
• JVM Thread display

Traps and consistency checks

• Trap and Alert Management
• Working with traps
• Software consistency check

Alerts, Events and the Problem Center

• Alerts and events
• Introducing the Problem Center
• Problem Detail tabs

Tools for memory diagnosis

• Heap data
• Memory analysis
• Memory leak tools

Performance analysis reports

• Sampling rates
• Working with reports
• Application reports
• Additional reports

Using the HTTP Agent

• Server overview
• Web Server workspace
• Website workspace
• Default ASP workspace attributes for IIS only
• Automation tools

Wymagane przygotowanie uczestników

You should be familiar with:

• J2EE resources and application server environment
• Starting and stoping WebSphere application servers
• Viewing the WebSphere administrative console
• Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Recommended courses:

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals

Zagadnienia

• Describe the ITCAM for Application Diagnostics architecture
• Perform product-administration functions using the ITCAM for Application Diagnostics graphical interface
• Configure ITCAM for Application Diagnostics on distributed systems
• Use ITCAM for Application Diagnostics to monitor applications in a production environment, including traps and all available monitoring levels
• Use ITCAM for Application Diagnostics to perform initial problem determination of applications