Starting the Cloud APM console

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Log in to the Cloud APM console from your browser to review the health status of your applications in the dashboards.

Before you begin

  • The URL for the login is the IP address of the Cloud APM server.
  • To ensure that the user interface is not truncated, use a minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024.
  • For optimal performance, use one of the supported browsers. For a list of the supported browsers, open the IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management Software Product Compatibility Report, select the Prerequisites tab, and scroll down to Web Browsers.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser window and enter the following URL where server_host is the IP address of the server: 
    https://server_host:9443
    You can also enter http://server_host:8080, although the URL is changed to the secure https and port number 9443 automatically.
  2. After you are prompted for a logon ID, enter the following credentials for the default user or enter the credentials that were assigned by your administrator:
    • User name apmadmin
    • Password apmpass
    The initial user credentials after Cloud APM server installation are apmadmin with password apmpass.

Results

After you log in, the Getting Started page is displayed with learning options for User Tasks and Administrator Tasks, and links to Community Resources.

What to do next

  • Familiarize yourself with the user interface elements by clicking the hypertext link to take a tour of the Cloud APM dashboard. Watch videos of the user tasks and administrator tasks to help you get started using and customizing your Cloud APM environment.
  • Add applications for viewing dashboards of your resources in logical groupings such as Online Ordering. For instructions, see Managing applications.
  • Create thresholds to test for conditions that, when met, cause an event to open. For example, you can have a threshold that opens an event after storage capacity reaches 90%. For instructions, see Threshold Manager.
  • Add and assign users to user groups and roles to control access to the Cloud APM console features and managed resources. For more information, see Managing user access.
  • To learn about monitoring the IBM Java application stack and IBM integration stack, see Scenarios.
  • If, instead of the Getting Started page or the Application Performance Dashboard, your browser goes to the IBM website, your user ID has no permissions to the Cloud APM console. You must request access from your administrator.
  • If no metrics are shown for a data source, consult the Cloud Application Performance Management Forum on developerWorks®. Search the forum for dashboard, reply to an entry to ask a related question, or create a new entry and describe the symptom.
  • If you are starting the Cloud APM console from Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10 and you get a This page can't be displayed error, you might need to enable the security option, TLS 1.2. For more information, go to the Cloud Application Performance Management Forum and search on tls.