Do you want to monitor specific work that runs on your system according to performance goals that you define? Do you want to define performance goals for transactions that a specific application processes as well as performance goals for operating system processes? Attend this session to learn how to monitor both application-level transactions and operating system processes by using an advanced performance monitoring tool, Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM). For example, EWLM allows you to monitor work such as i5/ OS and AIX operating system processes as well as transactions specific to an application such as WebSphere Application Server, DB2, and Apache.

This session will begin by describing the differences between EWLM and the basic monitoring functions provided with i5 iSeries Navigator. Then, you will learn how to identify work that EWLM is to monitor. The demonstration will include how to use platform filters such as ‘Job Name’ and ‘Subsystem Name’ to monitor i5/ OS work and application-filters such as ‘EWLM:
Application instance’ or ‘Port’ to monitor application-level work.

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
1. Understand what EWLM is and the benefits of using EWLM to monitor workloads.
2. Identify the differences between the performance data in iSeries Navigator vs. EWLM.
3. Use EWLM to monitor operating system processes by using
platform-specific filters in EWLM classification rules.
4. Use EWLM to monitor application-level transactions by using
application-specific filters in EWLM classification rules.
5. Create a domain policy that specifies differing performance goals for application-level work and operating system processes.
6. Use EWLM to determine if work completes according to the performance goals defined.
7. Learn about EWLM partition management and load balancing capabilities.