Being able to measure and monitor system interactions helps IT in providing business continuity. Monitoring capabilities play a key role in successfully managing enterprise systems. In WebSphere® Application Server, there are a number of tools that can contribute to an organization's monitoring strategy and provide insights into the performance of the application server. In this paper, we provide an introduction to these toolsets.

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is the stand-alone version of chapter 11 of WebSphere Application Server V7 Administration and Configuration Guide, SG24-7615.

Overview

Enabling monitoring infrastructures

Viewing the monitoring data

Monitoring scenarios

ITCAM for WebSphere

Monitoring considerations summary