Extended Monitoring Guide
To successfully monitor WebSphere, you must have the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) servlet installed and enabled on your WebSphere instance. For more information, please see the IBM WebSphere documentation.
Navigate to the device or device class in the Zenoss web interface.
If applying changes to a device, click the page menu, then select → .
If applying changes to a device class, click on the zProperties tab.
Edit the appropriate zProperties for the device or devices.
Table 48.2. WebSphere zProperties
zProperty Description zWebsphereURLPath
Path to the PMI servlet on a WebSphere instance.
The default value is the default path on a WebSphere installation:
wasPerTool/servlet/perfservletzWebsphereUser
Used for HTTP basic authentication. This field is not required, and is empty by default.
zWebspherePassword
Used for HTTP basic authentication. This field is not required, and is empty by default.
zWebsphereAuthRealm
Used for HTTP basic authentication. This field is not required, and is empty by default.
zWebsphereServer
Used by the provided template to build the xpath queries for the data to collect. You must supply a value for this field. There is no default value.
zWebsphereNode
Used by the provided template to build the XPath queries for the data to collect. You must supply a value for this field.
Click to save your changes.
Click the page menu, then select → .
From the table menu select the item to display the Bind Performance Templates dialog.
To add the Websphere template and retain other performance templates, hold down the control key while clicking on the Websphere entry.
Click .
The Websphere template should now be displayed under the Performance Templates for
Device. You will now be able to start collecting the WebSphere metrics from this device.Navigate to the Perf tab and you should see some placeholders for graphs. After approximately 15 minutes you should see the graphs start to become populated with information.