Tivoli Performance Viewer

TPV is a useful tool, especially the charts for web container and JVM, among other. Here are some teaser questions:

1. What are the PMI monitor levels?
1. None
2. Basic
3. Extended
4. All
5. Custom
2. What is the default setting?
1. Basic
3. Where to go for setting the PMI monitor levels?
1. Use Admin Console - Performance Monitoring Infratructure (PMI) > server_name
2. Use WSAdmin
4. Where is the PMI data log file and what is the name of this log file?
1.  Monitoring and Tuning > Peformance Viewer > Current Activity > server_name > Settings > Log
2. then, you can define_log_file_name or use default that is "tpv.xml"
5. What you can view by using TPV?
1. DynaCache
2. EJBModule
3. EntityBean
4. JDBCProvider
5. J2CResourceAdapter
6. JVM
7. MessageDrivenBean
8. ORB
9. Server
10. SessionManager
11. StatefulSessionBean
12. StatelessSessionBean
13. SystemMetrics
14. ThreadPool
15. TransactionService
16. WebModule
17. Servlet
18. WLMAppServer
19. WebServicesService
20. WSGW
6. Can you use TPV to view sysem.log file?
1. No, you cannot. TPV can view TPV performance data in tpv.xml file
7. When you use TPV and when you use ITCAM or Introscope?
1. When you need to know which ojbect in JVM is the problom
2. When you want to track transaction