Develop performance monitoring applications

WebSphere Application Server provides PMI interfaces that you can use to develop custom performance monitoring applications. These are the available interfaces:

• The PMI client interface
• The PMI servlet interface
• The Java Management Extensions (JMX) interface

Develop performance monitoring applications with the PMI client
The PMI client interface is a Java interface. This topic describes how to develop performance monitoring applications with the PMI client.

Develop performance monitoring applications with the PMI servlet
The PMI servlet interface returns PMI data in XML format. This topic describes how to develop performance monitoring applications with the PMI servlet.

Access PMI data with the JMX interface
The JMX interface invokes methods on MBeans to access PMI data. This topic describes how to access performance data on one or more MBeans with the JMX interface.

Run monitoring applications
This topic describes how to run a PMI client application.

Run monitoring applications with security enabled
This topic describes how to run a PMI client application in a secured environment.