Test 000-905: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.1

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) family of products. The Composite Application Manager family currently consists of:

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Internet Service Monitoring

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for CICS Transactions

- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for IMS Transactions

The aim of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is to simplify and enhance distributed application management. Application components can reside on multiple servers, across different platforms and J2EE environments, even through mainframes. The complexity of understanding and solving application-related problems, typically around performance issues, requires a cohesive set of tools to provide an end-to-end view of the application.

The discussion that we provide in this book mainly consists of the basic installation and configuration of the products. The discussion is aimed at augmenting the information provided in the product manuals. Consult the appropriate product manual before starting to implement these products.

We provide usage scenarios in this book as a demonstration of using these products in our sample environment. We use a single application environment that can be managed by all of the products.

This deployment guide helps you to plan the implementation, installation, and initial usage of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0. The objective of this IBM Redbook is to use a basic configuration of the product for an initial user to successfully install the product, become familiar with the various working components and how they interoperate. The user can understand some of the product capabilities, and begin to use the product to monitor and manage applications on the IBM WebSphere Application Server.

In addition to the installation steps, sample scenarios are included to highlight some of the ways in which you can use this product to increase the performance and availability of applications running on WebSphere Application Server. As a result, you can use this deployment guide to support an effective proof of concept demonstration of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0.

The instructions contained in this deployment guide target a Windows platform implementation. We do not cover other operating systems such as z/OS-based data collectors.

This IBM Redbook is written for services professionals who are responsible for developing, selling, and implementing customer-based service engagements. The book focuses on implementation services for IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0.

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere is a performance management solution for WebSphere Application Server-based applications. It enables monitoring of various performance aspects of WebSphere Application Servers and provides valuable assistance in finding and removing application bottlenecks. This implementation service for IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere is suitable for customers with multiple mission-critical applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.

This book explains the fundamental aspects of services engagement and Statement of Work creation. We explore in detail how to analyze the effort required for implementing the solution. We also provide several additional add-ons that you might be able to package in the implementation service.

This book is meant to be used in conjunction with Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.0, SG24-7252. We will not cover deployment in detail; we are more focused on building the service engagement package.