Workspaces reference

As part of the Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Application Server product integration with the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal, workspaces offer views of monitoring data that provide detailed current data about WebSphere Application Server servers running on Linux®, UNIX, and Windows platforms on your site. In addition to reports and graphs, a workspace can contain other views (that is, windows), such as a Notepad editor session, a browser session, a telnet session, an event console, or a Take Action view from which you can issue commands.

Several views of high-level information

Several workspaces provide high-level information to help you meet the monitoring and administrative needs of your site. These workspaces report on status and availability for both the WebSphere administrative server and its application server instances. They allow you to easily monitor the availability of your enterprise, the WebSphere Application Server, and application server instances.

Primary and secondary workspaces

The workspaces listed in the Navigator are directly accessible and are thus termed primary workspaces. Some of these also contain secondary workspaces, which are not accessible directly from the Navigator. Instead, you must select and display the primary workspace. Then, use either a menu option or a special link icon in the primary workspace views to reach the secondary workspaces (sometimes called subsidiary workspaces).

Workspaces with historical data links

Several workspaces provide secondary workspaces that display historical data. You can specify a time span over which to collect historical data, which accumulates and summarizes the data in the primary workspaces that generate them. (The default setting is 15 minutes; you can modify this setting to suit your needs.) The descriptions of the historical workspaces follow the descriptions of the primary workspaces that generate them in the workspace helps.

Available Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal workspaces

For an overview of the organization of the available workspaces, see Organization of the predefined workspaces.