WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent

You can use the WebSphere® Message Broker Monitoring agent to ensure the reliability and performance of your broker environment by detecting and correcting broker and message flow problems before they have an impact on service speed and availability. The WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent also reduces the amount of time it takes to deploy broker applications by helping you to debug message flows and providing statistics that you can use to tune your environment.

You can use the WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent to do the following tasks:

• Monitor the status of your IBM® broker product and its components
• View information and performance statistics for broker topologies at broker, execution group, message flow, node, terminal, and thread level in both tabular and chart forms
• Issue IBM broker product commands using the WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent interface to directly manage your environment, or create automatic responses to WebSphere Message Broker events
• Receive alerts when performance thresholds are exceeded or when message flow events occur
• Retain data samples in history files and save them to a historical database for reporting and analysis purposes

The WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent collects data from WebSphere Message Brokers. The data is presented in charts and tables that you can examine to monitor the performance of your WebSphere Business Integration systems. The agents also evaluate the data to determine when specified values meet the criteria that you have defined, and trigger alerts or programmed actions in response.

In addition, the WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent provides a CandleMonitor node. When inserted into a message flow, the CandleMonitor node collects message flow and subflow performance statistics and provides a mechanism for generating user-defined events. For the following workspaces to contain data, the broker must have at least one deployed CandleMonitor node (For information about how to deploy a CandleMonitor node in a broker, see Monitoring with the CandleMonitor node).