IBM Performance Management

Agent capabilities

Agent capabilities vary depending on your offering. The key agent capabilities are resource monitoring, transaction tracking, and diagnostics.

Depending on whether you are a developer, in operations, or a line-of-business owner, you use different IBM® Performance Management capabilities. Some capabilities are common to all offerings, for example, resource monitoring. Other capabilities such as transaction tracking and deep-dive diagnostics are available only in specific offerings.

Resource monitoring capability includes response time monitoring, application resource monitoring, and infrastructure resource monitoring.
Transaction tracking capability provides transaction instance and topology information for agents with this capability as noted in Table 1.
Diagnostics capability includes tracing and analyzing individual requests, and when necessary, method calls.

Table 1 provides an overview of the capabilities that an agent provides in each offering and extension pack. Each cell shows the capabilities that are available in the agent.

Table 1. Agent capabilities in each offering
Agents	Application Performance Management Advanced	Application Performance Management	Monitoring	Application Diagnostics
Cisco UCS	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Citrix VDI	Resource monitoring (Infrastructure Extension Pack required)	Resource monitoring (Infrastructure Extension Pack required)	Resource monitoring (Infrastructure Extension Pack required)	Not applicable
DB2®	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
DataPower®	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Hadoop	Resource monitoring (Data Analytics Extension Pack required)	Resource monitoring (Data Analytics Extension Pack required)	Resource monitoring (Data Analytics Extension Pack required)	Not applicable
HMC Base	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
HTTP Server	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
IBM Integration Bus	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking Note: REST API services are not monitored by IBM Integration Bus agent.	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking Note: REST API services are not monitored by IBM Integration Bus agent.	Not applicable	Not applicable
JBoss	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Linux OS	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring
Linux KVM	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft Active Directory	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft Cluster Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft Exchange Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft Hyper-V Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft IIS	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft Lync Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft .NET	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking Diagnostics	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring Diagnostics
Microsoft SharePoint Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Microsoft SQL Server	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
MongoDB	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
MySQL	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Node.js	Resource monitoring Diagnostics	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring Diagnostics
Oracle Database	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
PHP	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
PostgreSQL	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Python	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Response Time Monitoring	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
Ruby	Resource monitoring Diagnostics	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring Diagnostics
SAP	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable	Not applicable
SAP HANA Database	Resource monitoring (SAP Extension Pack required)	Resource monitoring (SAP Extension Pack required)	Not applicable	Not applicable
Synthetic Playback	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable	Not applicable
Tomcat	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
UNIX OS	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring
VMware VI	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
WebLogic	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Not applicable
WebSphere® Applications	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking Diagnostics	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring Diagnostics
WebSphere Infrastructure Manager	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring
WebSphere MQ	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Resource monitoring Transaction tracking	Not applicable	Not applicable
Windows OS	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring	Resource monitoring