Advanced configuration tasks
Several advanced configuration options are provided with the IBM SmartCloud® Application Performance Management UI.
Integration with IBM® Dashboard Application Services Hub is supported in IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI. For more information about Dashboard Application Services Hub integration, see the best practices wiki page (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20SmartCloud%20Application%20Performance%20Management/page/Best%20Practices%20for%20SC%20APM%20UI).
- The application repository
The application repository is the service component repository (SCR), which enables IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI to discover resources and to automatically build application models from resource model data sources. These sources include Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring resources through Jazz™ for Service Management, IdML book conforming to the common data model, and the application repository Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) API. - Administer the application repository
Learn about running the application repository, application repository commands, and customization artifact command line utilities. The application repository is the service component repository (SCR) in IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI. - Application repository reconciliation
The application repository, also referred to as the service component repository (SCR), consolidates resource and relationship information from multiple sources, or providers, into a data store. The information is reconciled and presented as a single resource model for easy consumption by IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI application structure building. - Configuring the application repository to point to a different data store
Learn how to configure the application repository to point to a different data store. The application repository is the service component repository (SCR) in IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI. - Advanced DB2 configuration for application repository database
You can use the advanced DB2® configuration utility and the advanced options to customize the buffer pool and transaction log sizes. - Configuring the application repository JVM settings
You can change the Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) heap settings of the application repository according to your environment. - Configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring data provider and Application Repository connection
Manage IBM Tivoli Monitoring data provider information and Application Repository connection in the UI by issuing commands on the command-line interface. - Configuring to use Jazz for Service Management
If you have applications that are defined in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager or IBM Tivoli Monitoring, and you are syncing their data into Jazz for Service Management, you can reuse their application information in IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI by configuring the application repository to synchronize with Jazz for Service Management. - Configuring role-based authorization
Role-based authorization is used in IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI to assign applications to different users. Both Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) registry and basic user registry (file system-based) can be used. Only one active registry is supported. - Configuring context launching for the BPM group widget
The IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI provides context launching. You can link from group widgets in component details dashboards to Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces. Context launching must be manually configured for the Business Process Management (BPM) group widget. - Configuring the data prefetch interval
The data prefetch value is the sampling interval in which the IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI server retrieves data from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring data provider. The default data prefetch value is 5 minutes. If this value is set to a value lower than 5 minutes, some data might not be retrieved in time. The data prefetch interval is defined in the apmui.cfg file that is in the APMUI_home/usr/servers/apmui/apps/customCfg directory, where APMUI_home is the installation directory of APM UI. All properties in this file are loaded during the product server startup. The data prefetch interval is configured on the product server. You can change the file properties at run time. - Configuring the interval for detecting application changes
IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI detects the changes to the application from Jazz for Service Management and Transaction Tracking periodically. By default, the detection interval is 30 minutes. You can change the interval by modifying the parameter in the configuration file. - Changing the JVM heap size
If you have many applications to monitor in your enterprise, you might need to adjust the JVM heap size for better performance. - Stopping and starting SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI server
You can run commands to stop and start the IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI server.
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