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Monitor virtual systems on IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Service

Hook up your virtual system patterns to an IBM Tivoli Monitoring server

Revathi Subramanian, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation

Revathi Subramanian is a senior software engineer in IBM research. Her areas of research include service oriented architecture, cloud computing and SaaS frameworks. Revathi has worked with many IBM development teams including WebSphere, Lotus, Rational and Tivoli to drive adoption of research technologies into products and service engagements.

Summary: IBM® SmartCloud Application Workload Service is one of the services available in the IBM Platform as a Service offering in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. The Workload Service uses IBM Workload Deployer technology as its underpinning to deploy virtual applications and virtual systems to the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. At the time of this writing, IBM Workload Deployer does not provide monitoring for virtual system patterns. If you want to hook up your virtual system patterns to an IBM Tivoli® Monitoring server, this tutorial shows you how.

Date: 16 Oct 2012
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (420 KB | 13 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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