About Internet Service Monitoring

The information gathered and processed by Internet Service Monitoring enables you to determine whether a particular service is performing adequately, identify problem areas, report service performance measured against Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and forward performance data to IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions, and other event management tools such as IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.

Internet Service Monitoring works by emulating the actions of a real user. For example, the HTTP monitor tries to access particular web pages, then measures how well the HTTP service performed. The data recorded by the monitor provides an immediate indication of the status of the HTTP service to the service operators, and can also be used to provide reports on service performance.