Usage Guides for ELM JMX MBeans

While JMX MBeans Reference Guides defines each available MBean, Usage Guides provide guidance on how they can be used for different scenarios and goals.

• CLM Monitoring Primer provides guidance on the base set of MBeans to include in your monitoring strategy. If just getting started, we recommend implementing the set of MBeans described in the primer first and expand from there.
• Monitoring your Engineering Workflow Management (EWM), aka Rational Team Concert cluster
• Collecting user related metrics
• Collecting data related metrics
• Collecting basic health check metrics
• Collecting ETM repository size metrics in order to monitor growth
• Sample ELM Monitoring Guide from IBM consultant Ian Wilkins (ian.wilkins@ca.ibm.com)

• Potential future usage guides include:
  • common troubleshooting scenarios that would be aided by use of available MBean data
  • application specific guidance for DOORS Next, EWM, ETM, etc.
  • monitoring the health and well being of your reporting subsystem
  • monitoring non-EWM clustered environments, if different than EWM
  • monitoring in a configuration management enabled environment
  • monitoring CCM environments with high volume of builds supporting CI/CD

To be most valuable, usage guide content needs to be driven by experience using the MBeans to monitor a variety of production deployments. For any client/admin using these JMX MBeans to monitor/manage production deployments, please contact Tim Feeney (tfeeney@us.ibm.com) to share your experience.

Related topics: JMX MBeans for ELM application monitoring