IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE

Today’s dynamic, on demand business depends on an array of complex applications. These are composite applications, meaning that they are deployed as partitioned business logic and data that span Web servers, Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) application servers, integration middleware and mainframe systems. Traditional siloed tools that monitor individual systems are not equipped to manage and diagnose composite application performance and availability problems. As a result, operations and development teams waste countless hours trying to identify, isolate and fix these problems. Poorly performing composite applications can have serious financial consequences on top- and bottom-line results of the business.

IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for J2EE delivers unparalleled, integrated management tools for your Web and enterprise infrastructure that help maintain availability and performance of your on demand business. Part of the Tivoli family of application management solutions, ITCAM for J2EE helps you quickly pinpoint the source of bottlenecks or other defects in application code, server resources or external system dependencies. It provides valuable management capabilities in both distributed and IBM z/OS® environments.

Because organizations may use application servers from multiple vendors, ITCAM for J2EE can integrate tightly with IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere®. Together, these products give you a consistent way to manage composite applications across WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle, SAP NetWeaver and Tomcat environments.

Unlike other solutions that lack integrated tools across the problem resolution and application life cycles, ITCAM for J2EE helps you rapidly identify and fix performance problems before they impact customers and other end users. The end result? You can keep your business running smoothly — to meet customer demands for exceptional service around the clock and around the world.

Through a set of diagnostics, reporting, analysis and resolution tools, ITCAM for J2EE enables advanced monitoring and management of J2EE applications, which allow you to:

• Detect, analyze and repair application server performance issues in production and test environments.

• Maintain high uptime, performance and responsiveness standards for both mainframe and distributed systems.

• Understand overall application health at a glance across multiple system types.

To enable you to rapidly identify and resolve problems, ITCAM for J2EE includes a comprehensive set of management functions. Using the software’s automation and other capabilities, you can:

• View all in-flight J2EE transactions, including composite transactions.

• Evaluate common performance bottlenecks and contributing factors with an automated problem finder to help detect, categorize and analyze root causes easily.

• Analyze problematic transactions both historically and in real time, drill down into the details and share the information with other stakeholders using built-in, interactive reporting tools that preserve some problem context.

• Correlate and profile transactions across multiple subsystems to determine the precise location and root causes of application failures.

• Set traps and alerts to detect and fix potentially troublesome situations before they affect end users.

• Analyze resource consumption patterns, perform trends or historical analysis, and plan for future growth.