Java Management Extensions (JMX™) technology is rapidly becoming a common, standardized way to provide basic monitoring of Java™/J2EE™ applications and application servers. By equipping applications with components known as MBeans, IT Departments can expose application information (i.e.: availability, downtime, upgrades, performance, sizing, security, integration) and other key metrics to enable the monitoring and control of applications. In addition, many middleware products, such as application servers and business process management tools, are being offered with performance metrics automatically exposed via JMX™.

While many companies have enabled JMX™ for their mission-critical J2EE™ applications, they find they are still unable to effectively manage and monitor them. While some solutions do exist, they lack key functionality such as alerts, real-time analytics, or the ability to deliver information in context by comparing real-time data to historical data. Without these capabilities, companies are unable to provide adequate application management, nor true real-time operational visibility.

With Enterprise RTView, the JMX™ data source allows you to:

• browse available MBean attributes and assign their values as input to a variety of graphic objects in web-based dashboards;

• archive the MBean data in the Enterprise RTView Historian for trend analysis;

• aggregate MBean attributes to, for example, provide subtotals over dimensions or time series;

• define thresholds and actions based on MBean attributes or aggregated data; and

• create interactive dashboards or automated alert behavior that can manage specific applications with the ability to execute an MBean operation.