I was asked this today by some of our application developers, does anyone know if APM can monitor applications using Java Management Extensions ?
We can't do this in 1.0, but we will be able to do it with a script in 2.0.
OK, so 2.0 is here (SP2 actually)... is this now possible? I want to use APM to monitor a tomcat server that has jmx installed. Can you please explain how to do this or point me to some documentation?
Thanks,
Shawn
While APM 2.0 can do this with a script, it's not something we've documented. From APM, the JMX counters can be polled with a script, but it's going to require a knowledge of JMX and scripting. I wish it were more out of the box, but not yet.
Hi Denny
do you have anything for providing help with monitoring tomcat ? like templates or scripts that others have used ?
Many thanks
Neil
Have you tried Nagios Exchange? APM 2.0 has a script ( in the built-in script directory..check your Start Menu) that will run a Nagios script and convert its output to an APM compatible format.
I have seen this. What I really want, is to be able to store the availability and preformance metrics of Apache (number of connections etc)
and Tomcat (number of threads, memory usage etc) and report these over time ie last 30 days.
Whilst I can try the Nagios scripts (just found the You Tube link for Josh's demo on this at
au.youtube.com/watch
I want to know if I can do the historical repoirting for Pache / tomcat or for any APM template for that matter.
Regards