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Routine maintenance of WebSphere can be performed with the following tools:

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Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) is a GUI performance monitor for

WebSphere Application Server. TPV can connect to a local or a remote host.

Connecting to a remote host minimizes performance impact to the application

server environment.

The Performance Advisor in TPV provides advice to help tune systems for

optimal performance and gives recommendations about inefficient settings by

using collected PMI data. The Performance Advisor in TPV provides more

extensive advice than the Runtime Performance Advisor. For example, TPV

provides advice about setting the dynamic cache size, setting the JVM heap

size, and using the DB2 Performance Configuration Wizard.

 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure: Provides best-practice

monitoring of the key elements of WebSphere Application Server. This is the

inside-out view, which enables administrators to quickly address problems

before they affect users.

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IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance: Provides a monitoring

perspective unique from that of the users. This approach is the outside-in view,

which verifies that end-to-end components provide a positive user experience.

This tool monitors performance of actual and synthetic transactions, and

verifies that the delivered content meets predefined guidelines.

2.3 Tivoli Storage Manager overview

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), now a part of the IBM TotalStorage® Open

Software Family, ensures availability of business applications by providing data

protection and resource utilization that scales with business needs. TSM is an

Attention: WebSphere Application Server is a key underlying software of

Content Manager, and it plays a critical role in the performance of a Content

Manager system. In this section, we merely touched the very basics of the

J2EE, WebSphere architecture, and architectural components. In 11.5,

“Monitoring tools for WebSphere Application Server” on page 339, we

introduce the performance tuning monitoring tools for WebSphere. Chapter 6,

“Best practices for Content Manager system performance” on page 143, and

especially Chapter 9, “Tuning WebSphere for Content Manager” on page 255,

discusses WebSphere-specific tuning for a Content Manager system.

To better understand WebSphere and WebSphere performance tuning, we

recommend visiting the WebSphere Application Server Information Center

and the publication we mentioned earlier in this section.