Introduction to monitoring
This section describes how to monitor the performance and resource usage
of WebSphere MQ.
- It outlines some of the information that you can retrieve and briefly
describes a general approach to investigating performance problems. (You can
find information about dealing with performance problems in the WebSphere MQ for z/OS Problem Determination Guide.)
- It describes how you can collect statistics about the performance of WebSphere MQ by
using SMF records.
- It describes how to gather accounting data to enable you to charge your
customers for their use of your WebSphere MQ systems.
- It describes how to use WebSphere MQ events (alerts) to monitor your systems.
These are some of the tools you might use to monitor WebSphere MQ; they are described
in the sections that follow:
- Tools provided by WebSphere MQ:
- z/OS service aids:
- Other IBM(R) licensed programs:
Information about interpreting the data gathered by the performance statistics
trace is given in Interpreting WebSphere MQ performance statistics.
Information about interpreting the data gathered by the accounting trace
is given in Interpreting WebSphere MQ accounting data.