User interfaces

Functions of the agents can be broadly divided into two areas: monitoring and diagnostics. Each of these functions uses different combinations of components. Each function also uses a different user interface. The two user interfaces are the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal and the Managing Server Visualization Engine (MSVE).

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal user interface

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is part of the IBM® Tivoli Monitoring architecture. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is the user interface into your ITCAM for Application Diagnostics environment site and possibly other IBM Tivoli enterprise applications if they are installed in your environment. For further information about the Tivoli Monitoring architecture, see Components used by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal user interface.

Using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal interface, you can easily monitor the health and availability of production applications and application servers. You can also quickly identify and isolate availability and response time problems. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal provides monitoring information, such as memory usage, response time, pool analysis, and data source analysis. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal enables you to drill down from server level metrics to specific application and resource level metrics.

MSVE user interface

The MSVE user interface provides users with management and monitoring functions for application servers. The MSVE also provides a diagnostic function. Here are some of the diagnostic activities you can perform in MSVE:
  • Detect transactions failing
  • Detect memory leaks
  • Examine detailed method traces, which help to detect application code hotspots
  • Generate reports to analyze historical information, such as application performance and OS performance
Important: The managing server, providing the MSVE user interface, is not included with ITCAM for Applications. It is available with ITCAM for Application Diagnostics. The agents included with ITCAM for Applications can interact with the ITCAM for Application Diagnostics managing server. For more information about the MSVE, see the documentation for ITCAM for Application Diagnostics.