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IBM Application Performance Management Advanced 8.1.3 Fundamentals (SPVC) - TOD45G
This course covers the key features of IBM Application Performance Management and IBM Application Diagnostics, including resource monitoring, deep-dive diagnosis, and transaction diagnosis. Exercises will be carried out for a WebSphere Application Server. An optional unit for the Node.js agent is available as an appendix. All other domains will be covered using slides.
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Description
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Unit 1: Presentation: Monitoring with IBM Application Performance Management Advanced
Lesson 1 Overview and architecture
Lesson 2 Performance Management console
Exercise 1 Starting DB2
Exercise 2 Modifying the gdc_custom.properties file
Exercise 3 Starting the DayTrader script
Exercise 4 Accessing the Performance Management console
Unit 2: Presentation: Monitoring application resources
Lesson 1 Monitoring .NET resources
Lesson 2 Monitoring Node.js resources
Lesson 3 Monitoring Ruby resources
Lesson 4 Monitoring WebSphere resources
Exercise 1 Monitoring WebSphere resources
Exercise 2 Monitoring the heap
Unit 3: Presentation: Code-level monitoring
Lesson 1 Code-level monitoring
Lesson 2 Additional features of the WebSphere agent
Exercise 1 Accessing code-level data for WebSphere
Exercise 2 Generating more traffic
Unit 4: Presentation: Transaction tracking
Lesson 1 Components supporting transaction tracking
Lesson 2 How topologies work
Lesson 3 Using topologies
Exercise 1 Exploring aggregate topologies
Exercise 2 Exploring transaction instance topologies
Unit 5: Presentation: Synthetic transaction and user monitoring
Lesson 1 Monitoring synthetic transactions
Lesson 2 Monitoring users
Exercise 1 Configuring a synthetic transaction
Exercise 2 Creating a synthetic application
Exercise 3 Viewing synthetic transactions
Aim
After you complete this course, you can perform the following tasks:
Unit 1:
Describe IBM Application Performance Management 8.1.3 Advanced, including IBM Application Diagnostics
Describe the architecture
Unit 2:
In this unit, you learn to describe the resource-monitoring features of currently supported agent domains for IBM Application Diagnostics:
Microsoft .NET, Node.js, Ruby, WebSphere
Unit 3:
In this unit, you learn to describe the code-level monitoring features of supported agent domains for IBM Application Diagnostics (see Unit 2 Objectives for supported agents)
Unit 4:
In this unit, you learn to describe the transaction monitoring features of IBM Application Performance Management Advanced, including Application Diagnostics.
Unit 5:
In this unit, you learn to use the features of IBM Application Performance Management Advanced and Application Diagnostics for monitoring:
Synthetic transactions
Users
Participant requirements
Before taking this course, you should have the following skills:
Familiarity with application monitoring
Familiarity with the UNIX command-line interface
Familiarity with WebSphere Application Server
Participant
Operations, System administrators, Application developers