IBM Performance Management 8.1.x new features, implementation practices, Monitored Enterprise Applications, and integration with Tivoli products.

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3158 - Cloud Infrastructure & IT Optimization - Application
Performance Management
IBM InterConnect 2016 Conference
Sandeep Chellingi , Suganya Rane
Solution Architect , Prolifics.
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Agenda
 Speaker Introduction
 Integrating Various Tivoli Products with IBM Application
Performance Management 8.1.2
 Solution Overview
 Key Implementation Elements
 Lessons Learned
 Key Takeaways
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Speaker Introduction
SANDEEP CHELLINGI
Solution Architect , Integration and Infrastructure Practice - Prolifics.
Sandeep is a Solution Architect focused on IBM Application Performance
Management, Service oriented Architecture and Cloud computing related
activities. In this role, Sandeep is part of Integration and Infrastructure
Practice where he leads a number of initiatives around technology strategy,
roadmaps and standardization. Role for this project: APM Integration
Architect and Infrastructure specialist.
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Why IBM APM as a Solution
 It’s the best APM solution to monitor critical applications in
Production environment.
 Integrates with IBM Tivoli monitoring providing application
aware monitoring for huge array of infrastructure and
resources .
 Provides End user experience , End-to-End Transaction
tracking and Application resource monitoring .
 Focuses on identifying performance bottlenecks in application
code , stack trace and SQL query details .
 Provides deep dive problem Analysis and high quality
Documentation.
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IBM APM Implementation Offerings
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IBM APM V6 & V8 Implementation
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IBM APM V8 Architecture
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Integrate Monitoring & Performance
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 Identify bottlenecks across the middleware stack by visualizing the
relationships and transaction flows between components and
identifying hot spots.
 Identify Application availability ,performance and response time for
end user transactions without complex implementation .
 Identify End-to-End Transaction tracking & infrastructure
monitoring for SAP HANA components.
 Common architecture & service offering for both SaaS & On-Premise
implementations.
 Long & Complex Implementation installation & integration duration .
 Consolidating Enterprise Application components & Infrastructure
servers monitoring data .

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Success: Integrated Application Monitoring &
Performance
 A comprehensive Monitoring solution that helps manage the
performance and availability for complex applications that might be
running on Premise, public cloud, or hybrid combination.
 Provides Intelligent log search capabilities to help diagnose and
resolve application problems by integrating with SmartCloud
Analytics – Log Analysis .
 Track transactions and average response time to understand user
experience.
 Visibility into the availability and performance of my applications
using synthetic transactions that are executed near end-users.
 Standard cloud architectural patterns ,through Scalable, dynamic,
Customizable Solution.
 Displays Application Performance Dashboard for both Performance
Management agents and their hybridized Tivoli
Monitoring counterparts.
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Success: Integrated Application Monitoring &
Performance
 Installation of Performance Monitoring infrastructure can be done
under a hour, followed by performance monitoring agents
installation .
 Provides IBM Monitoring, IBM Application Performance
Management, and IBM Application Diagnostics.
 Integrates with on-Premise Netcool/OMNIbus event Manager to
forward events.
 Integrate with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis,
collaborating application log data and performance data for root
cause analysis.
 Integrate to consolidate managed system views across Performance
Monitoring and Tivoli monitoring domains.
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APM Solution Overview
 The default communication protocol between the Performance
Management server and agents is HTTP.
 Additional configuration can be made to switch to HTTPS
communication between Performance Management server and
agents.
 Performance Monitoring Implementation allows to configure
Remote DB2 & mongoDB to achieve disk I/O performance .
 Provides Custom Agent builder toolkit for creating custom agents to
extend resource monitoring scope.
 Tivoli Common reporting is a pre-requisite to install and generate
Performance Management reports.
 Creating new applications , by adding managed resources and
components that belong to the Application.
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APM Tivoli monitoring Integration
Install Hybrid Gateway on RHEL 6.2
Create Managed System group in Tivoli
Enterprise Portal.
Configure Hybrid Gateway to integrate
with Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server .
Configure Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring to
Integrate with Performance Management
server.
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APM Netcool/OMNIbus Integration
Forward Performance Management
events to Netcool/OMNIbus event
manager.
Update event rules to the Probe for Tivoli
EIF.
Update the database schema and
Netcool/OMNIbus Object Server.
Configure the Performance Management
server to forward events
to Netcool/OMNIbus .
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APM Operations Analytics – Log Analysis
Pre-Installed IBM Operations Analytics
- Log Analysis implementation.
Configure the Performance
Management server with the Log
Analysis URL.
Open Performance Monitoring
Dashboard and Search for Log Files.
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APM Tivoli Common Reporting Integration
Pre-Installed Tivoli Common Reporting 3.1.0.2 for some reports.
Configure an ODBC connection between the TCR server and
the APM DB2 server.
Configure the APM reports installation image.
Install the reports package on the TCR Server.
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APM Lessons Learnt
APM Installation Best Practices
Prerequisites installation best practices
Checklist ( CPU , Memory & Disk )
Increase OS SWAP Size .
Increase File Descriptors.
Increase Core File Limit.
Complete install pre-required install
dependencies.
Quick Installation & deployment time on
RHEL 6.2
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Questions & Answers
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