In the WebSphere Extended Deployment environment, customized charting can show if goals are being met. To realize the benefits of using this virtualized environment, it is important to know how your applications are performing. Dynamic charting provides a visual perspective of this performance. Specifically, statistics such as availability, response time, traffic, and throughput are available. A wide range of options from which you can create various charts is provided.
Linked navigation and views show data from different perspectives. Additional charting features include charting tabs to separate windows, many of which can be open at once and tabular views of charts. Hover help provides information at a glance. Charting now also provides preferential options, available from a preferences link located in the top right of the chart. With these options, you can change the default size and the chart type, as well as display service policy goal lines and data set shapes.
Charting is supported for various data scopes such as cell, node group, dynamic cluster, service class, generic server cluster, transaction class, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition module, and on demand router perspectives. To view a chart, you can click the Change Scope and select the desired scope. Then, you can click Add data. If you click Add data without choosing a scope for a new chart, the scope selection menus automatically display.