74 IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide
4.1 Monitoring of resources
Monitoring provides the means to retrieve and visually observe real time changes in system
resources and should consist of at least the basic elements such as events, thresholds and
system health. Over the years monitoring seems to have shifted lanes from strict server
monitoring to application monitoring, because the signal to noise ration is often very poor on
server monitoring. Having defined end-to-end or inside-out monitoring for your application will
grant a much more granular information flow, as well as list the current state of the
application.
More importantly, it can help you track changes made to the system and provide you with a
baseline for future ...