BMC Performance Manager for Web Application Servers

 
 

Business Challenge

J2EE applications and platforms deliver critical user services. IT Operations is responsible for ensuring system availability and performance, but complex J2EE problems often require specialists to resolve. IT Operations needs a management solution that identifies pending J2EE applications problems, determines problems location, and helps IT Operations quickly engage specialists without forcing IT Operations to analyze, diagnose, and attempt to resolve the problem.

Business Need

  • Eliminate or reduce specialist and developer involvement in production application management
  • Have flexibility to monitor J2EE application data collected in multiple ways
  • Free up IT resources for tasks other than monitoring web application environments
  • Improve Operations management of production application uptime and performance
  • Reduce Operations time to turn problem diagnosis over to specialists for resolution

Our Solution

BMC Performance Manager for Web Application Servers prevents costly Web application downtime by discovering and monitoring availability and performance, automatically notifying you of events, and offering first-step problem diagnosis. This multi-faceted solution helps IT Operations manage IBM WebSphere Application Server and BEA WebLogic Server, as well as monitor status of WebSphere, WebLogic, and Red Hat JBoss through the BMC Portal. BMC helps IT Operations control enterprise J2EE application and platform status without requiring application support team or developer oversight.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Manage J2EE applications and platforms in context with overall systems management
  • Utilize multiple data collection methods to give users broad management coverage
  • Automatically discover all manageable components across WebLogic and WebSphere enterprises
  • Automatically notify Operations of abnormal events to maximizes availability and performance
  • Increase application reliability with status and diagnostic monitoring during the application test phase
  • Offer customizable access to more than 600 management metrics
  • Provide strong Operations-focused monitoring as a complement to BMC TM-RCA and BMC AppSight