Troubleshooting Tools
Found this "introductory level" article on WebSphere Developer works. It summarizes several tools that are useful in troubleshooting problems with your WebSphere installations.
Here is a list of the tools summarized in this Developer Works Article:
- Developing a client to determine a hung thread problem
- IBM Trace and Request Analyzer for WebSphere Application Server
- Trace Analyzer for WebSphere Application Server
- IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java Technology
- New and improved JDBC test tool
- Dynamic Cache Statistics Collector and Visualizer for IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Sample scripts for WebSphere Application Server
- System administration for WebSphere Application Server
- WebSphere Application Server Troubleshooting Guide
- Detailed system requirements documents
The article provides a nice example of a usage scenario for each of the tools. Below is a list of some links to download the tools mentioned in the article. Please note that you may be required to login to download.
- IBM Trace and Request Analyzer: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tra/download
- Trace Analyzer for WAS: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ta4was
- Dynacache Collector and Visualizer: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cacheviz/download
- Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jca/download
Have you used any of these tools? Do you have any alternatives that work better than these? Please let the world know!