IBM Enterprise Workload Manager

Simplify workload management across the infrastructure
The IBM Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM) enables you to automatically monitor multi-tiered, distributed, heterogeneous or homogeneous workloads across an IT infrastructure to better achieve defined business goals for end-user services. These capabilities allow you to:

• Identify work requests based on service class definitions
• Track performance of those requests across server and subsystem boundaries
• Redirect work, using EWLM-enabled routers, to achieve specific performance goals for each service class

By bringing this self-tuning technology to the set of servers, routers, and other devices enabled with Java™ virtual machine support, Enterprise Workload Manager can help enable greater levels of performance management for distributed systems.

Monitor based on business goals
Enterprise Workload Manager provides goal-based, end-to-end performance monitoring of an application. It also influences network traffic routing decisions by network load balancers for improved application performance and server effectiveness.

Using Enterprise Workload Manager, a system administrator can monitor multiple servers and answer such questions as:

• How is the work progressing?
• Are the business commitments for end-user service being met?
• If not, which components of which servers are causing the problem?
• What user types are affected?

System administrators can also use Enterprise Workload Manager to:

• Specify a performance goal that applies to each class of user of a distributed application
• Identify where time is spent in a distributed application that spans different operating systems, applications, networks and routers
• Identify which servers are actively supporting a given application and what applications are running on a given server