Overview of MainView Middleware Monitor
How do I use MVMM ?
How you can use MVMM depends on your product role.
Role | Use |
|---|---|
System Administrator | Installs the product and sets up security For more information, see: |
Middleware Administrator | Makes middleware changes via MVMA For more information, see MainView Middleware Administrator. |
Product Administrator (typically Middleware Administrator, Application Support, or Middleware Developer) | |
Product User (typically Middleware Administrator, Application Support, or Middleware Developer) | Monitors the middleware environment. For more information, see Using. |
What are the different MVMM components?
The different components that make up MVMM are described in the following table. For more information about these components and their role in your environment, see Architecture.
Component | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Monitor Console | Web-based interface that enables you to view dashboards and monitored information and configure security, events, history, and policies | |
Database | Contains configuration information, object repository and raw and summarized history data | |
MVMM server | ||
Topic Service | Receives data from the Agents and functions as a broker for the subscriber services | |
Subscriber services | The following subscriber services can receive data from the Topic Service:
| |
Agentless service | Provides an optional way in which you can monitor some applications through an "agentless" configuration where no MVMM software is installed on the monitored technology host | |
Monitored host | ||
Extensions | Specific to each technology, extensions capture data from each corresponding technology and then passes it to the Agent that publishes it | |
Agents | Installed on each system, there is one operating-specific Agent that accepts the data from all extensions and publishes it to the Topic Service | |
Component | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Monitor Console | Web-based interface that enables you to view dashboards and monitored information and configure security, events, history, and policies | |
Database | Contains configuration information, object repository and raw and summarized history data | |
MVMM server | ||
Topic Service | Receives data from the Agents and functions as a broker for the subscriber services | |
Subscriber services | The following subscriber services can receive data from the Topic Service:
| |
Agentless service | Provides an optional way in which you can monitor some applications through an "agentless" configuration where no MVMM software is installed on the monitored technology host | |
Monitored host | ||
Extensions | Specific to each technology, extensions capture data from each corresponding technology and then passes it to the Agent that publishes it | |
Agents | Installed on each system, there is one operating-specific Agent that accepts the data from all extensions and publishes it to the Topic Service | |
How MVMM uses agents and extensions
You use MVMM to monitor IBM MQ, largely by monitoring and discovering IBM MQ objects and by registering objects of interest for monitoring.
MVMM uses local or remote agents and IBM MQ extensions to monitor IBM MQ queue managers. When using a remote agent, MVMM also monitors via a IBM MQ client connection. A remote configuration is also known as agentless because there is no agent physically installed on the remote system (even though an agent is still installed locally).
You can use deployed MVMM agents and IBM MQ extensions to create the IBM MQ server connection channel to support the MVMA client connections and create the MVMA WMQ connection. For more information about on the integration and connection with MVMA, see MainView-Middleware-Administrator-integration-options.
Where to go from here
For more information about policies and objects and how they work in MVMM , see Overview-of-policies and Overview-of-objects.
To get started with MVMM , see Getting-started-for-system-administrators and Getting-started-for-users.
What can I do with MVMM ?
MVMM is a monitoring tool that helps you deal with the ever-growing challenge of monitoring transactions. MVMM offers the following core capabilities:
- Monitor all transactions passing through middleware applications across many technologies and platforms.
- Automatically isolate infrastructure problems to specific components in an application, greatly reducing time to problem resolution.
- Access end-to-end middleware transaction tracing and analyze historical data to assess trends.
- View and customize dashboards to show how captured metrics relate to the application flow.
- View and access historical records of middleware assets.