Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA Platform

Together these capabilities deliver the information you need in order to meet the demanding service levels required of SOA-based applications. ITCAM for SOA Platform delivers quick time to value for IT operations, architects, application developers, and subject matter experts alike.

ITCAM for SOA Platform helps administrators and operations detect and repair problems as they happen, and enables automated application problem identification, automated threshold learning and automated take-action situations to help deliver faster time to resolution

Integrated and comprehensive approach to SOA monitoring

ITCAM for SOA Platform enables a comprehensive and integrated approach to SOA monitoring, from discovery of services and tracking performance to correcting issues and optimizing resourcesPowerful management tools that fit your needs

In addition to enabling a single user interface and a single sign-on, ITCAM for SOA Platform provides a common data model to create consistent views across diverse components. This common data model enables a powerful set of features to optimize your SOA monitoring and management capabilities.

Service management

The service management function provides the monitoring and management of message flows at the services layer. It provides content-rich views that provide easy drill-down to the related supporting infrastructure components to identify the source of bottleneck or failure. ITCAM for SOA Platform monitors a wide variety of metrics on a large number of application server runtime environments and enterprise services buses (including IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB), IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance, and IBM WebSphere Message Broker). With integrated management of mediations in WESB , ITCAM for SOA Platform enables IT Operations to have greater control of services in a production environment. It also provides integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository to provide an operational understanding of the registered services versus those that have been observed by service management, supporting and enhancing your SOA governance.

Application management

The application management function provides an enterprise-scale, composite application management solution that is designed to help IT operations and administrators maintain availability of application resources. It can help monitor application performance and availability as well as identify and isolate problems at the resource level for web servers and application servers.

Messaging management

The messaging management function monitors the status of WebSphere MQ servers, queues, queue managers, channels and critical performance data related to WebSphere Message Broker. It provides real-time status on the availability and performance of the messaging environment through best-practices monitoring of key business integration components. ITCAM for SOA Platform provides deployment tools to help you ensure correct deployments of the messaging layer.