Introduction

IBM SmartCloud® Application Performance Management provides a comprehensive application performance management solution in a single product. Application transaction discovery, user experience monitoring, transaction tracing, and diagnostic features are provided in a single package. This document provides an overview of the component products and the installation process to help you determine which products to download, install, and configure.

The SmartCloud Application Performance Management offering is a package of component products that monitor and manage systems, application servers, and database servers. The offering tracks availability and performance and provides reports in a browser-based graphical user interface to track trends and troubleshoot problems. The user interface also offers expert advice on alerts and corrective actions.

The IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management UI Version 7.7 provides new customizable dashboards for the SmartCloud Application Performance Management, IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring, and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products.

IT operations and administrators can use the SmartCloud Application Performance Management offering to maintain high performance and availability levels for their systems. By using the consolidated set of tools, IT organizations can optimize service levels and contain costs on critical application resources across the enterprise.