Access the Managing Server Visualization Engine from Tivoli Enterprise Portal

You can access the MSVE from links in ITCAM Agent for WebSphere® Applications workspaces.

When you access the MSVE in this way, the MSVE displays in a browser view inside a workspace. The Tivoli® Enterprise Portal navigation tree is automatically hidden in the workspace. To show or hide the Tivoli Enterprise Portal navigation tree, click the small black arrow on the left side of the window.

The following table displays a list of Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces that have links to the MSVE.

Table 1. Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces that have links to MSVE
Workspace: Table View Name Number of links to MSVE Link Name Link Target Pages MSVE Pre-populated information in the link page to MSVE


WebSphere Agent Summary Status > Application Servers

WebSphere Agent Summary Status > Application Servers

WebSphere Agent Configuration>
Application Servers

 2
  • Diagnostic Server Activity Display
  • Diagnostic In-Flight Request Search
  • Server Activity Display – Active Requests
  • In-Flight Request Search
 The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

OS Stack > Current® OS Stack Summary

 3
  • Diagnostic Server Activity Display
  • Diagnostic In-Flight Request Search
  • <platform OS> <platform> is one of the following operating systems: Linux®, UNIX, Windows, or z/OS®
  • Server Activity Display – Active Requests
  • In-Flight Request Search
  • Using the dynamic workspace link to the corresponding OS agent workspace. For z/OS, the link is to OMEGAMON® XE for z/OS.
 The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

JVM Stack Trend >JVM Stack Trend

 1 Diagnostic Memory Leak Memory Leak Analysis The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

Request Analysis > Requests – Current Interval

 3
  • Diagnostic Recent Completed Requests
  • Diagnostic In-Flight Request Search
  • Diagnostic SMF Data (z/OS only)
  • Server Activity Display – Recent Requests
  • In-Flight Requests
  • SMF Data (for z/OS data collectors only)
  • The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.
  • Content in Request Detail column of Requests table view in Tivoli Enterprise Portal is pre-populated in the following fields:
    • Recent Requests: Client Request
    • In-Flight Request Search: Search Request/Transaction field

Garbage Collection Analysis >Garbage Collection Analysis

 1 Diagnostic Memory Leak Memory Leak Analysis The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

Thread Pools >Thread Pools

 1 Diagnostic JVM Thread Display JVM Thread Display The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

Datasources > Datasources – Current Interval

Web Applications >Web Applications

EJB Containers >EJB Containers

JMS Summary >JMS Summary – Current Interval

DB Connection Pools > DB Connection Pools

J2C Connection Pools > J2C Connection Pools

 1 Diagnostic Server Activity Display Server Activity Display – Active Requests The Group Server menu is pre-populated based on data collector information from Tivoli Enterprise workspace.

The Server Group feature that displays at the top of these pages applies to the MSVE. When you access any MSVE page from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, the information in the Groups and Servers fields is automatically populated with the data collector associated with the link and workspace you selected in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Groups are a set of application servers which have similar functionality. All configured data collectors are automatically assigned to the Unassigned Servers Group. The relationship between Server Group and data collector is many to many. A data collector can belong to one or more server groups. A server group can have one or more data collectors. You can add data collectors to groups using the Server Management functionality in the MSVE. For more information about adding data collectors to Server Groups, see the Composite Application Manager Help in the MSVE interface.

The Server Activity Display section has three tabs.
  • Active Requests
    Provides real-time request or transaction data for an application server at the time the page displays.
  • Recent Requests
    Displays the last 100 or less completed request or transaction data for an application server.
  • Lock Contentions
    Displays requests that are hanging because they are waiting on a lock. The data shows data that is currently locked and the item that is waiting to be locked.
The Active Requests tab and the Recent Requests tab have a toolbox icon . You can click this toolbox icon to access direct links to the following features:
  • JVM Thread Display
  • System Resources
  • Monitoring On Demand
  • Data Collector Profiles
  • Trap and Alert Management
You can use this information to analyze the details and identify the areas where the issues occur. To return to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal interface at any time, click the back button on your web browser.
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