IBM Application Performance Management Advanced 8.1.3 Fundamentals

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

This course covers the key features of IBM Application Performance Management and IBM Application Diagnostics, including resource monitoring, deep-dive diagnosis, and transaction diagnosis. Exercises will be carried out for a WebSphere Application Server. An optional unit for the Node.js agent is available as an appendix. All other domains will be covered using slides.

Audience

Application-monitoring specialists and technical sales personnel.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with application server monitoring
Familiarity with the Performance Management Console
Familiarity with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Completion of IBM Monitoring 8.1.3 Implementation and Administration (TM673G)

Learning Objectives

Describe the IBM Application Performance Management Advanced architecture
Learn to use the monitoring features of the four supported IBM Application Diagnostics agents
Monitor resources, application code, both real and synthetic transactions, and users with the WebSphere agent

Monitoring with IBM Application Performance Management Advanced

Lesson 1 Overview and architecture
Lesson 2 Performance Management console
Exercise 1 Starting DB2
Exercise 2 Modifying the gdc_custom.properties file Exercise 3 Starting the DayTrader script
Exercise 4 Accessing the Performance Management console

Monitoring application resources ï¿½

Lesson 1 Monitoring .NET resources
Lesson 2 Monitoring Node.js resources
Lesson 3 Monitoring Ruby resources
Lesson 4 Monitoring WebSphere resources
Exercise 1 Monitoring WebSphere resources
Exercise 2 Monitoring the heap

Code-level monitoring

Lesson 1 Code-level monitoring
Lesson 2 Additional features of the WebSphere agent
Exercise 1 Accessing code-level data for WebSphere
Exercise 2 Generating more traffic

Transaction tracking

Lesson 1 Components supporting transaction tracking
Lesson 2 How topologies work
Lesson 3 Using topologies
Exercise 1 Exploring aggregate topologies
Exercise 2 Exploring transaction instance topologies

Synthetic transaction and user monitoring

Lesson 1 Monitoring synthetic transactions
Lesson 2 Monitoring users
Exercise 1 Configuring a synthetic transaction
Exercise 2 Creating a synthetic application
Exercise 3 Viewing synthetic transactions

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