IBM Performance Management

Starting the Performance Management console

Log in to the Performance Management console from your browser to review the health status of your applications in the dashboards.

Before you begin

  • The URL for the login is the IP address of the Performance Management server.
  • To ensure the user interface is not truncated, use a minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024.
  • For optimal performance, use one of the supported browsers. For a list of the supported browsers, go to the APM Developer Center > System requirements page, select one of the IBM® Performance Management product links, and click the Server link; in the report that displays, click or scroll down to Web Browsers.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser window and enter the following URL where server_host is the IP address of the server: 
    https://server_host:9443
    You can also enter http://server_host:8080, although the URL is changed to the secure https and port number 9443 automatically.
  2. After you are prompted for a logon ID, enter the following credentials for the default user or enter the credentials that were assigned by your administrator:
    • User name apmadmin
    • Password apmpass
    The initial user credentials after Performance Management server installation are apmadmin with password apmpass.

Results

After you log in, the Getting Started page is displayed with learning options for User Tasks and Administrator Tasks, and links to Community Resources.

What to do next

  • Familiarize yourself with the user interface elements by clicking the Take a tour of the performance management dashboard hypertext link in the Getting Started page. Watch videos of the user tasks and administrator tasks to help you get started using and customizing your Performance Management environment.
  • Select Performance > Application Performance Dashboard to get an overview of your managed environment in the All My Applications dashboard. If, instead of getting the dashboard, you are prompted to add an application, it means you have no defined or predefined applications (see Managing applications).
  • Add applications for viewing dashboards of your resources in logical groupings such as Online Ordering. For instructions, see Managing applications.
  • Create thresholds to test for conditions that, when met, cause an event to open. For example, you can have a threshold that opens an event after storage capacity reaches 90%. For instructions, see Thresholds and resource groups.
  • Add and assign users to user groups and roles to control access to the Performance Management console features and managed resources. For more information, see Managing user access.
  • To learn about monitoring the IBM Java application stack and IBM integration stack, see Scenarios.
  • If, instead of the Getting Started page or the Application Performance Dashboard, your browser goes to the IBM website, your user ID has no permissions to the Performance Management console. You must request access from your administrator.
  • If no metrics are shown for a data source, consult the IBM Performance Management Forum on developerWorks®. Search the forum for dashboard, reply to an entry to ask a related question, or create a new entry and describe the symptom.
  • If you want to adjust the time limit when users are logged off, which is 200 minutes by default, see Adjusting the console timeout value.
  • If you are starting the Performance Management console from Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10 and you get a This page can't be displayed error, you might need to enable the security option, TLS 1.2. For more information, go to the IBM Performance Management Forum and search on tls.