Well, there are different levels of monitoring:
* up & running -> standard OS level monitoring can do this
* quickly and properly responding -> HTTP monitoring (e.g. ITCAM for RTT -
enterprise-grade, not free)
* why slow, etc -> J2EE monitoring (e.g. ITCAM for WAS - enterprise-grade,
not free)

As the WebSphere performance framework is based on JMX, any JMX capable tool
can audit the counters and report on that.

So, there is no free tool which I can use?( at certain time, the app seems to be extremely slow, I just want to know why)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...pvmonitor.html

- Sunit

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> So, there is no free tool which I can use?( at certain time, the app seems
> to be extremely slow, I just want to know why)

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unix_l@yahoo.com wrote:
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works for me.

Ken

The question is, what about the app is 'slow'? How do you know it is
slow/ are you doing some sort of measurement and where in the end to end
application? If you don't measure at a variety of points along the way
it is sometimes hard to determine exactly what is wrong. You could tune
the app and WAS all you want, if the network is slow, it won't do much
good. If you are confident it is not the network you have to start
monitoring the various resource WAS and the app are using.

I work on the ITCAM family of products which are not free so
might not be appropriate for your situation. However, they do provide a
lot of information and one even goes down to method call level.

unix_l@yahoo.com wrote:
> So, there is no free tool which I can use?( at certain time, the app seems to be extremely slow, I just want to know why)

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Jim Palistrant
IBM Tivoli WW Technical Evangelist/Enablement - ITCAM

You can use TPV built-in WebSphere application server itself. If you need to analyse the heapdumps/coredumps then use heapanalyzer.