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AppManager for IBM WebSphere Application Server

NetIQ's AppManager for IBM WebSphere Application Server (AppManager for WebSphere) is one component of NetIQ's AppManager Suite (AppManager), the industry's leading solution for managing, diagnosing and analyzing the performance and availability of Linux and UNIX-based systems, applications and server infrastructures.

This module delivers the functionality you need to optimize the performance and availability of your WebSphere environment. In addition to delivering comprehensive event management and proactive alert messaging, AppManager for WebSphere checks for potential problems, triggers appropriate actions and gathers long-term data for planning, analysis and reporting.

Key Benefits

  • Automates systems management. Offers out-of-the-box management for WebSphere, minimizing system downtime and freeing you from daily firefighting to focus on higher-value projects. AppManager for WebSphere takes systems management beyond the manual stand-alone scripting approach, initiating automated responses or corrective actions based on event severity. Advanced capabilities make WebSphere administration even easier.
    • AppManager for IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • Collects real-time data. Evaluates threshold alerts and takes action to correct performance problems. Unlike other applications that rely on historical data gathered from access and error logs, this module provides an accurate picture of WebSphere performance without requiring intrusive instrumentation or causing concern about losing data in rolling log files.
  • Provides connection pool, Transaction Manager and Java virtual machine (JVM) analysis. Tracks key performance statistics, including database connection pool usage, time waiting for a connection and JVM memory allocation and usage, in addition to core data about Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and servlet performance. This module also provides transaction status and history, such as number of queries or updates per second. Actions and notifications can be linked to alerts on these and other metrics.
  • Uses unique scripting technology. Allows you to dynamically configure measurement values so a single script can do the job of many by utilizing unique Knowledge Scripting technology. This reduces the number of scripts needed and allows a user with modest WebSphere knowledge to easily apply management conventions to individual J2EE components, individual WebSphere servers or groups of servers.

Covered Subsystems

AppManager for WebSphere provides comprehensive management. The large script set covers all major subsystems, including:

  • JVM runtime
  • EJB
  • JDBC connection pools
  • Session Manager
  • Servlet request metrics
  • Thread pools
  • Transaction Manager and JTA
  • Web applications

This module adds significant new management capabilities for WebSphere version 5.x, including:

  • J2C connection pools
  • Dynamic cache
  • Object Request Broker (ORB)
  • Workload Manager
  • Web Services Gateway

Management Functions

Here are some of the out-of-the-box management functions provided by AppManager for WebSphere:

  • Monitors the number of synchronous and asynchronous requests received and responses sent by a web service.
  • Monitors pool usage statistics, including the number of calls retrieving an object from the pool, number of times a retrieve found an object available in the pool, number of calls returning an object to the pool and number of times the returned object was discarded because the pool was full.
  • Returns the number of requests received, number of concurrent requests and average time taken to service a request.
  • Monitors thread creation and destruction (the number that start and finish executing). Other JVM scripts manage heap usage, object creation/deletion, garbage collection and locks.
  • Reports the average transaction duration and the duration of transaction prepares and commits for global and local transactions.
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