Introducing the WebSphere Application Server Solution

To address the needs of WebSphere performance monitoring, Mercury Interactive offers the WebSphere Solution. The SiteScope WebSphere Solution provides efficient and thorough monitoring of performance, availability, and usage statistics for IBM WebSphere Server 5.x application servers.

This solution uses a template you can use to deploy a collection of WebSphere Monitors configured with default metrics. These monitoring configurations have been researched using best practice data and expertise from various sources. The WebSphere Solution monitor deployment process is highly customizable in that it allows the user to select the specific J2EE components on an application server which SiteScope should actively monitor.

Note: You must have the applicable SiteScope option license to use the WebSphere Solution templates. Contact your Mercury sales representative for more information about Solution licensing.

The purpose of a solution template is to provide comprehensive WebSphere monitoring without requiring the SiteScope user or the IT organization to be experts on the application. Benefits of the WebSphere solution template include:

Reduces the need for WebSphere performance domain expertise
Reduces the time to configure and deploy WebSphere monitors
Helps identify both real-time performance bottlenecks and longer term trends
Adds no overhead to production systems

The WebSphere Solution Template deploys monitors that target the following aspects of WebSphere performance and health:

Server Performance Statistics
This category refers to a collection of server-wide resources that are exposed through the management interface of a WebSphere Application Server. Examples of these server-wide resources include:
- JVM Runtime
- The Transaction Manager
- Thread Pools
- The Servlet Session Manager
Application Performance Statistics
Metrics for all of your deployed applications, EJBs, web applications, and servlets are available for monitoring through the WebSphere Solution. The user is responsible for selecting which of these J2EE components he would like to have monitors automatically deployed for. A set of metrics based on WebSphere best practices are monitored for each selected J2EE component. Some of the J2EE components that can be monitored through this solution include:
- Web Applications
- Servlets
- EJB Components
- Entity EJB Statistics
- Stateful Session EJB Statistics
- Stateless Session EJB Statistics