Who should attend
Operations, System administrators, Application developers
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have the following skills:
- Familiarity with application monitoring
- Familiarity with the UNIX command-line interface
- Familiarity with WebSphere Application Server
Product Description
This course covers the key features of IBM Application Performance Management and IBM Application Diagnostics, including resource monitoring, deep-dive diagnosis, and transaction diagnosis. Exercises will be carried out for a WebSphere Application Server. An optional unit for the Node.js agent is available as an appendix. All other domains will be covered using slides.
If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. http://www.ibm.com/training/terms
Outline
Unit 1: Presentation: Monitoring with IBM Application Performance Management Advanced
- Lesson 1 Overview and architecture
- Lesson 2 Performance Management console
- Exercise 1 Starting DB2
- Exercise 2 Modifying the gdc_custom.properties file
- Exercise 3 Starting the DayTrader script
- Exercise 4 Accessing the Performance Management console
Unit 2: Presentation: Monitoring application resources
- Lesson 1 Monitoring .NET resources
- Lesson 2 Monitoring Node.js resources
- Lesson 3 Monitoring Ruby resources
- Lesson 4 Monitoring WebSphere resources
- Exercise 1 Monitoring WebSphere resources
- Exercise 2 Monitoring the heap
Unit 3: Presentation: Code-level monitoring
- Lesson 1 Code-level monitoring
- Lesson 2 Additional features of the WebSphere agent
- Exercise 1 Accessing code-level data for WebSphere
- Exercise 2 Generating more traffic
Unit 4: Presentation: Transaction tracking
- Lesson 1 Components supporting transaction tracking
- Lesson 2 How topologies work
- Lesson 3 Using topologies
- Exercise 1 Exploring aggregate topologies
- Exercise 2 Exploring transaction instance topologies
Unit 5: Presentation: Synthetic transaction and user monitoring
- Lesson 1 Monitoring synthetic transactions
- Lesson 2 Monitoring users
- Exercise 1 Configuring a synthetic transaction
- Exercise 2 Creating a synthetic application
- Exercise 3 Viewing synthetic transactions