IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for WebSphere® Application Server is an enterprise scale solution designed to maintain availability of WebSphere Application Server resources. It helps monitor composite applications and provides real-time status on the health of applications. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server provides value by displaying useful metrics about the performance of the application server and applications running on top of the application server.
When you install and enable the optional application, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server, it becomes embedded in WebSphere Application Server. Data for IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server is shown under the performance module in TPV. The data that IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server provides augments the data provided by WebSphere Application Server through Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) statistics.
If you want a fuller set of capabilities for monitoring your WebSphere and non-WebSphere applications, install IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources 6.2. (If you have installed IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere Application Server, uninstall it first.)