IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics, Version 7.1.0.1

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Attributes for ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Applications

ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Applications gathers information about running WAS processe using data created from ITCAM for WebSphere data collectors. The ITCAM agent and stores this information in elements called attributes. For example, the Receive Count attribute in the JMS Summary attribute group counts the number of messages your applications have retrieved from JMS messages queues.

Attribute groups

The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere Applications attributes are organized into groups of related items. These attribute groups comprise the attribute tables for this agent. For example, the Garbage Collection Analysis attribute group provides information about the frequency with which the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) invokes its garbage collector.

Attributes and workspaces

Within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces, these attributes get displayed in, and correspond to, the columns in the reports and the items in the graphic displays for charts and graphs. You can use the collected data to analyze and monitor the performance of your WebSphere application servers and the applications running within them. For an overview of the correlations between the predefined workspaces and the attribute groups, see Attribute Groups Used by the Predefined Workspaces.

Attributes and situations

Various attributes are referenced by the product's predefined situations. You can also use the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere Applications attributes to create your own situations to monitor the performance of your WebSphere application servers and their applications. These situations can monitor your WAS resources or correlate multiple conditions to alert you to problems that may have occurred when attribute values exceed thresholds that you define.

• Attribute groups used by the predefined workspaces
  A workspace contains graphical data or report columns that correspond directly to particular attributes in an attribute group. The following table shows the correlations between the predefined workspaces and the attribute groups. The workspaces, primary and secondary, are listed alphabetically, not in the order in which they appear in the Navigator.
• Alarm Manager attributes
  The Alarm Manager attributes provide information for the alarm management. Use these attributes to manage alarms fired by the application for each work manager.
• Allocation Failure attributes
  The Allocation Failure attribute group provides information about the heap-allocation failure that caused the Java Virtual Machine hosting the application server to invoke its garbage-collection routine.
• Application Health Status attributes
  The Application Health Status attributes provide information for real-time and historical application health status.
• Application Monitoring Configuration attributes
  The Application Monitoring Configuration attributes provide information for the Application Monitoring Configuration.
• Application Server Status attributes
  The Application Server Status attributes provide status information for all WebSphere application servers (and the WebSphere administrative server) being monitored by the agent.
• Application Server attributes
  The Application Server attributes provide the status and summary data for a specific WAS instance.
• Baseline attributes
  The Baseline attributes provide information for baseline extract data for the given application.
• Client Communications attributes
  The Client Communications attributes display overall statistics about server-side monitoring and a client-side API to retrieve performance data.
• Container Object Pools attributes
  Use the Container Object Pools attributes in situations to monitor the effectiveness of the object cache and of resource usage.
• Container Transactions attributes
  The Container Transactions attribute group provides performance information about transactions that run in each defined EJB container and an aggregated value for all transactions that run in the application server.
• Data sources attributes
  The Data sources attributes provide database usage information.
• DB Connection Pools attributes
  The DB Connection Pools attributes provide information about the database connection pool for each defined data source, and an aggregated value that aggregates over all data sources.
• DC Messages attributes
  The DC Messages attributes provide message information from WebSphere data collector.
• DCS Stack attributes
  The DCS Stack attributes reports information about the statistical data within the entire WAS domain, including multiple nodes and servers.
• Durable Subscriptions attributes
  The Durable Subscriptions attributes display overall statistics about the durable subscriptions of a selected topic.
• Dynamic Cache attributes
  The Dynamic Cache attribute group provides information about the dynamic cache.
• Dynamic Cache Templates attributes
  The Dynamic Cache Templates attribute group provides information about the cache template data.
• EJB Containers attributes
  The EJB Containers attributes provide aggregated information for each defined EJB container that aggregates bean performance data for all Enterprise beans deployed to that container.
• Enterprise Java Beans attributes
  The Enterprise Java Beans attributes provide performance information about each EJB deployed to the application server.
• Garbage Collection Analysis attributes
  The Garbage Collection Analysis attribute group provides information about the garbage collector in the Java Virtual Machine that is hosting the application server.
• Garbage Collection Cycle attributes
  The Garbage Collection Cycle attribute group provides information about a single garbage-collection cycle that the Java Virtual Machine hosting the application server performed.
• High Availability Manager attributes
  The High Availability Manager attributes provide aggregated information about the high availability managers.
• J2C Connection Pools attributes
  The J2C Connection Pools attribute group provides information about connectors that adhere to J2C, the WAS implementation of the J2C architecture.
• JMS Summary attributes
  The JMS Summary attributes provide information about how WAS applications are interacting with messaging middleware (WebSphere MQ) using the Java Messaging Service (JMS). It provides such information as which queue managers and queues are being used and how many messages are being read and written.
• Log Analysis attributes
  The Log Analysis attributes provide application server error and exception conditions which are recorded in the application server log files.
• Messaging Engine Communications attributes
  The Messaging Engine Communications attributes display statistics for all the messaging engines being hosted by the current application server.
• Messaging Engines attributes
  The Messaging Engines attributes display aggregated information about the performance of the messaging engines supported by WebSphere server.
• Portal Page Summary attributes
  The Portal Page Summary attributes provide information about response times statistics for all portal page requests that completed on monitored WebSphere Portal server during the interval.
• Portal Summary attributes
  The Portal Summary attributes provide aggregated response times statistics about all portal pages and portlet requests that completed on monitored WebSphere Portal server during the interval.
• Portlet Summary attributes
  The Portlet Summary attributes provide information about response times of all portlet requests that completed on monitored WebSphere Portal.
• Queue attributes
  The Queue attributes provide aggregated information about the point to point messaging.
• Remote Configuration Requests attributes
  The Remote Configuration Requests attributes provide information about remote configuration.
• Request Analysis attributes
  The Request Analysis attributes provide response times and functional decomposition information about requests (servlets, JSPs, and EJB methods) that ran on the application server.
• Requests Monitoring Configuration attributes
  The Requests Monitoring Configuration attributes provide information for all requests monitored in application. Use these attributes to monitor application edge requests. The agent supports three types of edge requests, Servlet/JSP, EJB, and Portal.
• Request Times and Rates attributes
  The Request Times and Rates attribute group provides information about historical request throughput and average response time for a particular application server.
• Selected Request attributes
  The Selected Request attribute group provides detailed information about transactions' requests for database (that is, JDBC), messaging (that is, JMS), or EIS (that is, J2C) services.
• Servlet Sessions attributes
  The Servlet Sessions attribute group provides information about servlet sessions.
• Servlets JSPs attributes
  The Servlets JSPs attributes provide performance information for servlets and Java server pages (JSPs).
• Scheduler attributes
  The Scheduler attributes display data for the Scheduler service.
• Service Component Elements attributes
  The Service Component Elements attributes provide aggregated information about the performance data for all the service components and their elements.
• Service Components attributes
  The Service Components attributes provide aggregated information about the overview performance of the key service components.
• Thread Pools attributes
  The Thread Pools attribute group provides information about the data source, as well as connection statistics, for database connection pools in a WAS. Use it to monitor pools activity and to spot potential throttling.
• Topic Spaces attributes
  The Topic Spaces attributes provide aggregated information about publish/subscribe messaging.
• Web Applications attributes
  Use the Web Applications attributes to create situations that monitor Web application performance and application server loads.
• Web Services attributes
  The Web Services attributes display aggregated information about the Web services, including the number of loaded Web services, the number of requests delivered and processed, the request response time, and the average size of requests.
• Web Services Gate Way attributes
  The Web Services Gate Way attributes display aggregated information about the Web Services Gateway, including synchronous requests, asynchronous requests, synchronous responses, and asynchronous responses.
• WebSphere Agent Events attributes
  The WebSphere Agent Events attributes provide information about agent-level events that affect the ability of the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent to collect data about WAS. These attributes provide exception and error messages, their IDs, and their severities.
• WMQ Client Link Communications attributes
  The WMQ Client Link Communications attributes display aggregated information for all the clients of WMQ Queue Managers that are or have been connected to this application server.
• WMQ Link Communications attributes
  The WMQ Link Communications attributes display aggregated information for all the WMQ Queue Managers that are or have been connected to this application server.
• Workload Management Client attributes
  The Workload Management Client attribute group provides information about the client that initiates workload requests.
• Workload Management Server attributes
  The Workload Management Server attribute group provides information about the workload management server.
• Workplace Mail IMAP/POP attributes
  The Workplace Mail IMAP/POP attributes displays the usage information for the IMAP service and POP3 service connectivity.
• Workplace Mail Queues attributes
  The Workplace Mail Queues attributes display information about the message delivery state, including ready retry, unprocessed, and dead.
• Workplace Mail Service attributes
  The Workplace Mail Service attributes display aggregated usage information about the incoming mail message traffic.

Parent topic:

ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Applications

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