• Familiarity with application server monitoring
• Familiarity with the Performance Management Console
• Familiarity with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Completion of IBM Monitoring 8.1.3 Implementation and Administration (TM673)

• Describe the IBM Application Performance Management Advanced architecture
• Learn to use the monitoring features of the four supported IBM Application Diagnostics agents
• Monitor resources, application code, both real and synthetic transactions, and users with the WebSphere agent

Monitoring with IBM Application Performance Management Advanced

• Lesson 1 Overview and architecture
• Lesson 2 Performance Management console
• Exercise 1 Starting DB2
• Exercise 2 Modifying the gdc_custom.properties file Exercise 3 Starting the DayTrader script
• Exercise 4 Accessing the Performance Management console

Monitoring application resources

• Lesson 1 Monitoring .NET resources
• Lesson 2 Monitoring Node.js resources
• Lesson 3 Monitoring Ruby resources
• Lesson 4 Monitoring WebSphere resources
• Exercise 1 Monitoring WebSphere resources
• Exercise 2 Monitoring the heap

Code-level monitoring

• Lesson 1 Code-level monitoring
• Lesson 2 Additional features of the WebSphere agent
• Exercise 1 Accessing code-level data for WebSphere
• Exercise 2 Generating more traffic

Transaction tracking

• Lesson 1 Components supporting transaction tracking
• Lesson 2 How topologies work
• Lesson 3 Using topologies
• Exercise 1 Exploring aggregate topologies
• Exercise 2 Exploring transaction instance topologies

Synthetic transaction and user monitoring

• Lesson 1 Monitoring synthetic transactions
• Lesson 2 Monitoring users
• Exercise 1 Configuring a synthetic transaction
• Exercise 2 Creating a synthetic application
• Exercise 3 Viewing synthetic transactions