IBM Tivoli
Composite Application Monitoring for SOA
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA can monitor, manage and control the Web services layer of IT architectures.
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA can drill down to the application or resource layer to identify the source of bottlenecks or failures and pinpoint services that take the most time or use the most resources.
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA can:
- Deliver understanding across the entire SOA for effective management
- Pinpoint the source of service bottlenecks
- Perform automated service mediation
- Manage the SOA across the full application lifecycle
- Proactively recognize and quickly isolate Web service performance problems
- Verify that Web services are available and performing to specification and alert when Web service performance is degraded
- Visualize entire Web service flows, end-to-end, as they cross the enterprise
- Oversee SOAs consistently across multiple technologies through an integrated console with service, application and resource views
- Support heterogenous SOA platforms, including the IBM WebSphere family, Microsoft .NET and BEA WebLogic to enable monitoring of Web services wherever, across the entire IT environment
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA (ITCAM for SOA) includes the Web Services Navigator, a plug-in to IBM Rational and other Eclipse-based tools, which provides deep understanding of service flows, patterns and relationships to developers and architects using operational data from Tivoli Data Warehouse.
Business Benefit:
- Establish an application management solution for high availability and performance
- Report results against committed service levels
- Speed and simplify the identification and resolution of SOA problems by drilling down to application components or IT resources
- Promote management throughout the SOA development lifecycle, enabling development and other pre-production users to obtain a deep understanding of service flows and relationships
- Identify the source of bottlenecks or failures through content-rich Web service views to increase effective identification and resolution of service problems
- Automate SOA management and help meet established service levels through built-in and extensible alerts message mediations, situations and workflows, maintaining service performance without operator intervention
- Leverage smooth integration with other IBM Tivoli products (such as Tivoli Data Warehouse), to provide a comprehensive application management solution for complex environments.