IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics Agent for J2EE is a Tivoli® Enterprise Management Agent that is located within your distributed system. This agent gathers data about running J2EE Application Server processes that have been collected and stored by the ITCAM for J2EE data collector, and stores this data in elements called attributes. Each attribute is a characteristic of an object. 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.
The ITCAM Agent for J2EE 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) starts its garbage collector.
Various attributes are referenced by the predefined situations of the product. You can also use the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics Agent for J2EE attributes to create your own situations to monitor the performance of your J2EE application servers and their applications. These situations can monitor your J2EE Application Server resources or correlate multiple conditions to alert you to problems that might have occurred when attribute values exceed defined thresholds.