Why use monitoring?

This section presents the various reasons you would monitor service components within WebSphere Process Server: to assess performance; to troubleshoot problems; and, evaluate the overall processing of service components that make up the applications deployed on your system.

Service components are the integral functions incorporated into WebSphere® Process Server, that allow you to easily create and deploy applications on your system that mirror the processes employed in your enterprise. Effectively monitoring those service components is, therefore, essential to managing the tasks which the process server is intended to accomplish. The main reasons you would monitor service components on the process server are outlined below:

Problem determination
You can diagnose particular errors by using the logging and tracing facilities provided by WebSphere Application Server, which underlies WebSphere Process Server. For example, if a particular application is not producing the expected results, you can set up a logger to monitor the processing of the service components that comprise that application. You can have the log output published to a file, which you can then examine to pinpoint the cause of the problem. Troubleshooting is a task that is of importance to system administrators and others concerned with the maintenance of system hardware and software.
Performance tuning
You can monitor certain performance statistics that most process server-specific service components produce. Use this information to maintain and tune your system health, and ensure that your applications are tuned optimally and efficiently. You can also spot situations where one or more of your services are performing at a poor level, which may indicate that other problems are present in your system. Like problem determination, performance tuning is a task typically performed by information technology specialists.
Assessing the processing of service components
Problem determination and performance tuning are tasks you would be done on a short-term basis, to solve a particular issue or problem. You can also set up the process server to continually monitor the service components incorporated into the applications deployed on your system. This type of service component monitoring is of importance to those who are responsible for designing, implementing, and ensuring that the processes achieve their design goals, and may be accomplished persons who are not necessarily specialists in information technology.
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