By Amir Hossin & Oneil Richardson So how can one collect Application Performance Management (APM v8) on-premise server logs ? Almost always IBM Support want your APM 8.x server logs to help diagnose issues. There is a collectLogs.sh script in the Performance Management server at the following default location: /opt/ibm/ccm Which can be used specifically to gather the server logs and supporting components when executed. The collectLogs script captures all installed server component logs and generates a single compressed file with... [More]

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The new ITCAM for J2EE v7.1 IF4 fix has just been released today.  This is a cumulative Interim Fix for the J2EE v7.1.1.0. There are some new features included in this fix including support for the folllowing versions: JBoss EAP 6.1.0, JBoss EAP 6.2.0, JBoss EAP 6.3.0 and JBoss EAP 6.4.0 are now all supported.  JBoss Wildfly 9.0.2 support on mutiple standalone servers, either using the GUI or silent configuration is also supported.  If you are using the silent configuration to configure, you can use the jboss-ALIAS_INSTNAME to... [More]

ITCAM for J2EE 7.1.1 IF4 (7.1.1.0-TIV-ITCAM_J2EE-IF0004) is now available! http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040521 It is highly recommended to have the interim fix 7.1.1.0-TIV-ITCAM_J2EE-IF0004 installed. It is available starting from Mar 30th 2017 and can be downloaded from here:... [More]

You can find ITCAM for J2EE 7.1.1 Interim Fixe 4  from this link. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040521 The link includes all Interim Fix of ITCAM for J2EE 7.1.1.  

If you encounter licensing errors while installing RPT for use with ITCAM for Transactions, these tips resolve the problems.   Upon running launchpad.exe if you encounter this error it is because the install cannot find the ..\disk1\ directory.  Place this directory parallel to the RPT_SETUP directory and try again.                                                       After downloading and unpacking... [More]

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After configuring the APMV8.1.3 WebSphere Agent and Data Collector on Windows with a WebSphere V8.5.5.x Application Server running IBM Control Desk when the Application Server is restarted it will fail and produce a Java Core dump.  After a review of the Java Core dump the following is found: From the DumpAnalyzerReport.txt as below:                                 "This is a WebSphere... [More]

SAP HANA DB Agent is available for IPM V8.1.x, but there is also a version for ITM V6.3 infrastructure. It is not directly available on Passport Advantage because it is not included in ITM or ITCAM licenses. You may want to contact IBM representative to obtain the license and enable download from PPA. You can find below some information related to the new SAP HANA Database agent: 1.    Name of the package: IBM Monitoring Agent For SAP Hana Database V7.1 Multilingual Multiplatform (CNAM8ML). 2.    Released in April... [More]

If you want to create an Agent Builder agent that collects data using JDBC, below are the steps. We will use this agent to collect data from Microsoft SQL Server. 1° in the Agent Builder, start creating a new agent: File -> New -> Agent. Click Next 2° specify a project name, and modify the location, if needed Click Next 3° specify the operating system(s) to run on. Note: In case your SQL Server is using SQL accounts for authentication, you are not bound to an operating system, but if you are using Windows authentication, the... [More]

ITCAM for Microsoft Application SQL Server Agent uses a set of "cursors", generally associated to specific attribute groups, to perform data collections. These cursors can be triggered on demand by TEMA requests or can be interval-driven; depending on the attribute group, there can be different methods to gather the needed data. Into the file koqcoll.ctl you can find SELECT statements from specific tables, and invocation of binary files like koqsql. Attribute group "Database Detail" is collected by the cursor koqdbd, that... [More]