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JVM Monitoring – Best Practices

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Definitions
 Monitoring – Observing performance data in real time to find and correct
resource, throughput, or response time problems.

 Trending – The analysis of data with the intention of identifying

discernable patterns.

 Forecasting – The projection of those identified patterns on business

growth patterns to understand the impact on business processes.

 Capacity planning – The response to forecasts that ensures the integrity

of business processes.
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Capacity/Load model
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Typical WAS/J2EE Application Components

Component interactions J2EE components Back-end connectors

CICS
Transaction Mainframe
EJB Gateway

Servlet MQSeries
HTTP plugin Connector
Server
EJB JDBC Driver Bac k-end systems

J2EE Application
Thread EJB JDBC
Pool Pools Pools Database
Application Server

Memory File and

J2EE Services
Management Network I/O

Production JVM
(AIX, AS400, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows, OS/390, z/OS)

CPU
(AIX, Solaris, Windows)
Customer
Transac tions