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Chapter 16. Monitoring distributed systems
Having the ability to measure and monitor system interactions helps information technology
(IT) to provide business continuity. Monitoring capabilities plays a key role in successfully
managing enterprise systems. In WebSphere Application Server, there are a number of tools
that can contribute to an organization’s monitoring strategy and provide insights into the
performance of the application server.
In this chapter, we provide an introduction to these toolsets.
We cover the following topics:
Overview
Enabling monitoring infrastructures
Viewing the monitoring data
Monitoring examples
Monitoring operations
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server
Additional resources for monitoring