BMC MainView for WebSphere Application Server

Effectively Monitor the Performance of WebSphere Application Server

IT problem

The increasing prevalence of Java based applications and standards in enterprise wide application development provides both challenges and opportunities for strong mainframe customers. Faced with business requirements to maximize performance and reduce cost of ownership, these companies need metrics allowing them to assess the performance and behavior of applications deployed to WebSphere Application Server on z/OS with the same level of detail that they have come to depend on in the more traditional CICS environments.

BMC solution

BMC MainView for WebSphere Application Server provides improved availability, recoverability, and manageability for WebSphere Application Servers running on the IBM z/OS platform, and helps organizations determine how well their end users are being serviced. Effectively managing and improving efficiency of resource usage is greatly simplified using MainView for WebSphere Application Server. Integrated with BMC MainView management solutions users are able to manage a comprehensive z/OS environment, including WebSphere Application Server, DB2, TCP/IP, USS, CICS, and Workload Manager.

Features and benefits

• Provides J2EE application health details: pools, WLM info, average response times
• Includes detailed information on web applications including Servlet response time and request volume
• Allows user to quickly pinpoint problematic code JVM thread views
• Provides site-use analysis for the number of hits, content checking, log file errors
• Aids aids diagnosis of application loops with BCITRACE view
• Provides translation of HTTP responses into English with counts
• Monitors HTTP servers for early detection of change in traffic volume
• Executes dynamically JVM stack traces to pinpoint CPU utilization impact

Key differentiators

• Fully integrated with MainView family of monitors
• Integrated with MainView Alarm Management to allow alarms based on exceptions
• User extensible trace capabilities

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