The use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for integrating enterprise applications continues to grow, with applications being developed using many different methods and techniques beyond the basic Web services approach. SOA supports increased standardization in the areas of connectivity, integration, and high quality of service delivery. Services tend to separate the interface from the underlying implementation, and the resulting loose coupling of composite applications allows for design flexibility and supports scalability and control of services through the use of the Enterprise Service Bus.
IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA Platform delivers an integrated offering for SOA management across the services, application, and middleware layers. You can monitor and manage the services in your environment, from the services layer, through the middleware, to the infrastructure using this offering and these component products:
- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA
- Use IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA to understand the flow and performance of service instances, so you can make appropriate routing decisions to the most appropriate service instance (best performing, most secure, least cost).
- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources and IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging
- These component products help you manage composite applications to understand the health of middleware components and the applications running on middleware.
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring products and operating system agents
- Together, these components provide critical management of the infrastructure layer.
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers
- This extension of IBM Tivoli Monitoring gives you the tools to identify and resolve virtual server availability and performance issues.
Using this integrated offering, you can determine the root cause of problems and restore service quickly. Integrating the management of the infrastructure with the management of the services provides powerful management capabilities, including navigation and the ability to do root cause analysis.
This offering provides a single solution for managing an SOA environment.
