IBM Application Performance Management Advanced 8.1.3 Fundamentals (SPVC)

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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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