SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI overview
The IBM SmartCloud® Application Performance Management UI Version 7.7 provides new, customizable dashboards for the SmartCloud Application Performance Management, IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring, and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products.
The user interface (UI) includes predefined templates for simple Java™ EE, complex Java EE, Business Process Management, SAP, and Microsoft applications that are based on industry best practices. You can use these templates to build your own dashboards to monitor the resources of your IT environments. The UI also contains integrated views to monitor IBM Tivoli Monitoring situation-based events and transactions of your applications.
The UI is available in the IBM Integrated Service Management Library.
The IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI provides an application-oriented view of the health of your environment. You can contextually obtain more detailed information. The purpose of the SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI is not to display every metric available. Instead, key performance metrics are provided for the application and its components to help optimize performance and to quickly diagnose problems. It provides a view of the overall health of critical applications. It also displays the overall health of a specific line of business when critical applications are grouped in the user interface. The UI also provides pointers to the diagnostic tools when problems are recognized. These pointers speed up problem analysis as you gain more familiarity with the subject matter expert tools. Launch-in-context to Tivoli Enterprise Portal is enabled with the Java Web Start client.
Benefits
- Provides predefined dashboards to improve the usability and time-to-value of application performance management
- Provides built-in group widgets for each domain application (DB2®, SAP, and others) based on industry best practices
- Provides application dashboards that can be customized to monitor business applications
Features
- Characteristic features
- Highly responsive, intuitive navigation, context information
- High resolution on desktop and tablets
- Multicultural support Important: The data section of group widgets, which comes from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring data provider, is not translated in the SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI. For example, the column names in a Grid widget are translated, but the rows of data are not translated. The KPI labels in an HTML table gauge widget are translated, but the KPI values are not translated.
- Infrastructure supported
- SmartCloud Application Performance Management portfolio
- Best practices that are supported for application performance management
- Predefined widgets and a dashboard for domain server health
- Templates for applications
- Easy to build, configure, and customize for different applications
- Matches the dashboard to the application structure
- Templates are provided for common application patterns
- Aligns business operation with IT operation
- Integrates a business view with the application dashboard for performance
- New features in this release
- iPad support is available in SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI version 7.7.0.0.1
- IBM Tivoli Composite Application
Manager for Microsoft Applications dashboards
- Exchange 2013 Server
- .NET Framework
- IBM Tivoli Composite Application
Manager for
Applications dashboard
- DataPower®
- Back-End Transaction dashboards
- Real-User Transaction dashboards
- Deep dive application performance analysis
- Enhanced navigation and accessibility
- Search functionality enabled to expedite problem determination
- Works with fabric node to support the IBM Application Performance Diagnostics product
- Improved application construction and maintenance through Open
Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
- OSLC templates support registration of monitored resources. SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI supports OSLC integration with other products. OSLC templates are available from the Integrated Service Management (ISM) library at https://www-304.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/ismlibrary/ details?catalog.label=1TW10CA19#tab-overview.
- Integration with resource and application structures or models that are provided by the Jazz™ for Service Management Registry and OSLC providers, such as IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
- Integration with resource and application structures or models directly from ITCAM for Transactions.
- Changes to application models are pushed to the SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI model providing more accurate and up-to-date application structures.
- Lightweight platform and updated infrastructure
- IBM Tivoli Blaze
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Core
- Dojo 1.8
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3
- An application and resource repository component, referred to as the Service Component Repository (SCR), which facilitates application and resource model information between SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI and other components in the overall solution