IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions ~ How to do stuff ~ By Kevin Baldwin - How to..... Homepage   Or should it be... launch pad, welcome page, landing page, base camp? Whatever the preferred title might be, this blog is intended to act as the "Master" blog for the "ITCAMfT - How to do stuff" series of blogs. Robotic Response Time is my main area of experience. As a result most of my blogs are likely to be in that subject area. However, there will be blogs relating to the other components and... [More]

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The Knowledge Center is now available for the new IBM Performance Management solution, IBM Monitoring: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSUT2H . Here you’ll find the list of agents for monitoring your data sources, instructions for downloading and installing the server and agents, and administrative tasks. Check out the Features topic to get an overview of the Performance Management console capabilities and where to find more information. Read the IBM Monitoring v8.1 blog from Payal Chakravarty: ... [More]

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Here is a list of best practices and commonly encountered pitfalls while using Itcam for transactions and its robotic response time (t6) agent with RPT (Rational Performance Tester).   1) VERSIONS OF RPT TO USE,  OR NOT TO USE.   Currently, with ITCAM for Tx v7.4 environment , only the following versions of RPT are supported , on Windows OS for recording scripts that are going to  be played back later robotically on ITCAM for Tx RRT robotic agent (product code t6)  : - RPT V8.3 - RPT V8.6 - RPT V9.0.0 - RPT V9.0.1 Any... [More]

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Here is the part 1 of my blog containing a list of best practices and commonly encountered pitfalls while using Itcam for transactions and its Internet Service Monitoring ("ISM", ITM product code 'is') agent :   1. VERSIONS OF ISM TO USE Use if at all possible latest version of ISM agent, v7.4.0.x For latest IFIX info available, refer to : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21663324   2. ISM HTTP monitor versus SOAP monitor, to monitor SOAP server 2a) if you want to monitor a SOAP service  using... [More]

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      This "Nuggets of Knowledge" is a series of blogs that are all aimed at hints and tips to maximise the use and value you can get from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) product suite. Below is a full list of my blogs for easy navigation and future reference.  All new blogs will be added to this post, so feel free to bookmark it so you don't miss any new additions.   Please feel free to contact/follow me, all my social contact links are below (just click on the image)       I... [More]

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Here are some tips concerning ITCAM for Transactions Tracking with Tx collector (TU) / Tx reporter (TO) agents used :   A)  Are you planning to use ITCAM For Transactions Tracking to monitor your portal application ? Yes? Here is some tips for you. A1) Components to install : Generally, you install a Data collector plug-in associated to your domain on the Application Server system; for example if you want to... [More]

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Hadoop is an open source frame work that is designed for distributed storage and processing of very large data sets called as big data. Hadoop provides massive storage for any kind of data, huge processing power, and the capability to handle virtually limitless tasks simultaneously. Typically, Hadoop administrators face the following issues that are related to Hadoop clusters: DataNode slow downs The amount of memory used exceeds the expected threshold The time required for RPC to complete exceeds the expected threshold Poor allocation of... [More]

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IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions ~ How to do stuff ~ By Kevin Baldwin - How to..... Know what versions of Rational Performance Tester (RPT) are currently supported or planned for use with ITCAM for Transactions RPT can be used to record and upload robotic script tests to monitor HTTP or HTTPS web applications, SAP, Siebel, or Citrix applications for performance and/or availability. RPT is a product developed independently of ITCAMfT. This sometimes means there are newer versions of RPT available that are not supported... [More]

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If you're looking for an alternate console for viewing your Agents data connected to your TEPS, you may consider using the Smart Cloud Application Performance Monitoring User Interface (SCAPM UI) v7.7.   You can choose to install the SCAPM UI 7.7 product on your TEPS server itself or any other other supported-OS server in your environment and create a Data Provider to connect to either your local or remote TEPS.  Once connected, you will be available to view Agents data on your SCAPM UI 7.7 dashboard.  Some other... [More]

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This blog entry is to explain what are the APM databases and what is their usage. There are 3 main databases which are installed into the DB2 server:   WAREHOUS database (which is also called the prefetch database) contains resource monitoring metric data from the agents. The resource monitoring agent dashboard pages display data from this database. The database also contains the metric data for the Monitoring Agent for WebSphere® Applications Reports for Tivoli Common Reporting.   DATAMART database contains transaction tracking... [More]

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Hi IBM Is there a way to monitor APM's availability? I know I can get a job scheduled that can run the APM STATUS command every 5 mins and alert me if any of the status is "stopped" or failed.. Is there any other way? Is there a way similar to below? If not, how would I monitor APM's availability.. We have ITNM that can be used using SNMP utils on server to monitor processes however certain processes are java processes and ITNM only gets first 64 characters of the command line.. So we cannot use that as well. 1. Heart Beat... [More]

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IBM Monitoring 8 delivers Log File Agent (LFA) features inside OS agent. OS agent manual gives already good description how to configure this feature but I will give even more detailed with corresponding pictures. On below url you can find official documentation about configuration: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSHLNR_8.1.3/com.ibm.pm.doc/install/osagent_configcontainer.htm Before you begin you have to create conf and fmt files which later you need to place to APM server. Available tags which can be used in conf file can also... [More]

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  As ITM 6.3 fix pack 3 has just been released, I know many of you will be planning upgrades in the near future. Here are a few tips and features that can really improve the speed, capacity usage and capabilities of warehousing in ITM. There is even a neat little feature to send data directly to analytics tools outside of the warehouse entirely, thus offsetting load on your database (win, win).   This blog is tacking a slightly different tact to the how to/deep dive information I usually post, but I feel this information if worth... [More]

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IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions ~ How to do stuff ~ By Kevin Baldwin - How to..... Correctly interpret playback status and availability information seen in Robotic Response Time workspaces The information in this blog answers the following questions: Why is Last Run Status showing Complete when the monitored web server isn't available? Why is the application showing 100% availability when the monitored web server isn't available? The quick answer to these questions is: Playback Status just reports the status of... [More]

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