Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Business value of end-to-end transaction monitoring -- Chapter 1. Transaction management imperatives -- 1.1 e-business transactions -- 1.2 J2EE applications management -- 1.2.1 The impact of J2EE on infrastructure management -- 1.2.2 Importance of JMX -- 1.3 e-business applications: complex layers of services -- 1.3.1 Managing the e-business applications -- 1.3.2 Architecting e-business application infrastructures -- 1.3.3 Basic products used to facilitate e-business applications -- 1.3.4 Managing e-business applications using Tivoli -- 1.4 Tivoli product structure -- 1.5 Managing e-business applications -- 1.5.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance functions -- Chapter 2. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance in brief -- 2.1 Typical e-business transactions are complex -- 2.1.1 The pain of e-business transactions -- 2.2 Introducing TMTP 5.2 -- 2.2.1 TMTP 5.2 components -- 2.3 Reporting and troubleshooting with TMTP WTP -- 2.4 Integration points -- Chapter 3. IBM TMTP architecture -- 3.1 Architecture overview -- 3.1.1 Web Transaction Performance -- 3.1.2 Enterprise Transaction Performance -- 3.2 Physical infrastructure components -- 3.3 Key technologies utilized by WTP -- 3.3.1 ARM -- 3.3.2 J2EE instrumentation -- 3.4 Security features -- 3.5 TMTP implementation considerations -- 3.6 Putting it all together -- Part 2 Installation and deployment -- Chapter 4. TMTP WTP Version 5.2 installation and deployment -- 4.1 Custom installation of the Management Server -- 4.1.1 Management Server custom installation preparation steps -- 4.1.2 Step-by-step custom installation of the Management Server -- 4.1.3 Deployment of the Store and Forward Agents.

4.1.4 Installation of the Management Agents -- 4.2 Typical installation of the Management Server -- Chapter 5. Interfaces to other management tools -- 5.1 Managing and monitoring your Web infrastructure -- 5.1.1 Keeping Web and application servers online -- 5.1.2 ITM for Web Infrastructure installation -- 5.1.3 Creating managed application objects -- 5.1.4 WebSphere monitoring -- 5.1.5 Event handling -- 5.1.6 Surveillance: Web Health Console -- 5.2 Configuration of TEC to work with TMTP -- 5.2.1 Configuration of ITM Health Console to work with TMTP -- 5.2.2 Setting SNMP -- 5.2.3 Setting SMTP -- Chapter 6. Keeping the transaction monitoring environment fit -- 6.1 Basic maintenance for the TMTP WTP environment -- 6.1.1 Checking MBeans -- 6.2 Configuring the ARM Agent -- 6.3 J2EE monitoring maintenance -- 6.4 TMTP TDW maintenance tips -- 6.5 Uninstalling the TMTP Management Server -- 6.5.1 The right way to uninstall on UNIX -- 6.5.2 The wrong way to uninstall on UNIX -- 6.5.3 Removing GenWin from a Management Agent -- 6.5.4 Removing the J2EE component manually -- 6.6 TMTP Version 5.2 best practices -- Part 3 Using TMTP to measure transaction performance -- Chapter 7. Real-time reporting -- 7.1 Reporting overview -- 7.2 Reporting differences from Version 5.1 -- 7.3 The Big Board -- 7.4 Topology Report overview -- 7.5 STI Report -- 7.6 General Reports -- Chapter 8. Measuring e-business transaction response times -- 8.1 Preparation for measurement and configuration -- 8.1.1 Naming standards for TMTP policies -- 8.1.2 Choosing the right measurement component(s) -- 8.1.3 Measurement component selection summary -- 8.2 The sample e-business application: Trade -- 8.3 Deployment, configuration, and ARM data collection -- 8.4 STI recording and playback -- 8.4.1 STI component deployment -- 8.4.2 STI Recorder installation.

8.4.3 Transaction recording and registration -- 8.4.4 Playback schedule definition -- 8.4.5 Playback policy creation -- 8.4.6 Working with realms -- 8.5 Quality of Service -- 8.5.1 QoS Component deployment -- 8.5.2 Creating discovery policies for QoS -- 8.6 The J2EE component -- 8.6.1 J2EE component deployment -- 8.6.2 J2EE component configuration -- 8.7 Transaction performance reporting -- 8.7.1 Reporting on Trade -- 8.7.2 Looking at subtransactions -- 8.7.3 Using topology reports -- 8.8 Using TMTP with BEA Weblogic -- 8.8.1 The Java Pet Store sample application -- 8.8.2 Deploying TMTP components in a Weblogic environment -- 8.8.3 J2EE discovery and listening policies for Weblogic Pet Store -- 8.8.4 Event analysis and online reports for Pet Store -- Chapter 9. Rational Robot and GenWin -- 9.1 Introducing Rational Robot -- 9.1.1 Installing and configuring the Rational Robot -- 9.1.2 Configuring a Rational Project -- 9.1.3 Recording types: GUI and VU scripts -- 9.1.4 Steps to record a GUI simulation with Rational Robot -- 9.1.5 Add ARM API calls for TMTP in the script -- 9.2 Introducing GenWin -- 9.2.1 Deploying the Generic Windows Component -- 9.2.2 Registering your Rational Robot Transaction -- 9.2.3 Create a GenWin playback policy -- Chapter 10. Historical reporting -- 10.1 TMTP and Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse -- 10.1.1 Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse overview -- 10.1.2 TMTP Version 5.2 Warehouse Enablement Pack overview -- 10.1.3 The monitoring process data flow -- 10.1.4 Setting up the TMTP Warehouse Enablement Packs -- 10.2 Creating historical reports directly from TMTP -- 10.3 Reports by TEDW Report Interface -- 10.3.1 The TEDW Report Interface -- 10.3.2 Sample TMTP Version 5.2 reports with data mart -- 10.3.3 Create extreme case weekly and monthly reports -- 10.4 Using OLAP tools for customized reports -- 10.4.1 Crystal Reports overview.

10.4.2 Crystal Reports integration with TEDW -- 10.4.3 Sample Trade application reports -- Part 4 Appendixes -- Appendix A. Patterns for e-business -- Introduction to Patterns for e-business -- The Patterns for e-business layered asset model -- How to use the Patterns for e-business -- Appendix B. Using Rational Robot in the Tivoli Management Agent environment -- Rational Robot -- Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance (TMTP) -- The ARM API -- Initial install -- Working with Java Applets -- Running the Java Enabler -- Using the ARM API in Robot scripts -- Rational Robot command line options -- Obfuscating embedded passwords in Rational Scripts -- Rational Robot screen locking solution -- Appendix C. Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- System requirements for downloading the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other resources -- Referenced Web sites -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- IBM Redbooks collections -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.