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Java APM Agent Changelog
I just realized that there is not a great means of tracking the changes to the Java APM agent for...
Date: 03/25/2014
How To Instrument Catching Exceptions for Java APM
This post applies to both the Java APM Agent available from Application Insights as well as the RTM...
Date: 01/22/2014
Application Insights (for Java): What is it and How to Get It
I previously mentioned that Application Insights supports Java and this post is a follow-up with...
Date: 01/16/2014
System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring Released!
I am proud to announce the release version of Java Application Performance Monitoring (aka Java...
Date: 01/07/2014
SCOM 2012 R2: Tomcat as a Windows Service with APM options
There are many ways start Tomcat. The documentation covers the basics, which for Windows is to...
Date: 12/10/2013
Application Insights: For Java Too!
Microsoft recently announced a new service for VS Online called Application Insights (This is an...
Date: 12/09/2013
Enable Windows 8.1 Lock Screen Slideshow
A bit of fun for today's post, finally got around to personalizing my computer's lock screens today....
Date: 11/04/2013
Java APM MP Guide now Available... On TechNet
If you are looking the Java Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Preview Management Pack (MP)...
Date: 10/23/2013
Recommended: Tutorial for Using Java APM with SCOM 2012 R2
I'm a little late to this, but I just found a great introduction if you are looking for a guide...
Date: 10/08/2013
Guide: Enabling SSL on Tomcat With The Java Management Packs for SCOM 2012
Here is a quick guide for enabling SSL on Tomcat with the SCOM 2012 Java Management Pack (download...
Date: 10/08/2013
Java APM MP Guide now Available
If you are looking the Java Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Preview Management Pack (MP)...
Date: 09/10/2013
PowerShell script to Remove Application Servers: Only Applicable to Application Server's added by PowerShell
I would like to take a moment to clarify a point about the PowerShell script to remove application...
Date: 08/30/2013
WebLogic Management Pack Explained: Discovery Process and Monitoring
In this blog post I will briefly discuss the discovery and basic monitoring on WebLogic from the JEE...
Date: 08/30/2013
Java APM Agent configuration files: Explained!
Edit for Nov 20th, 2013: the information on this page primarily is for the On Premise solution of...
Date: 08/28/2013
Command-line options to enabling Application Performance Monitoring for Tomcat
This post will go over the specifics of running the command-line options for enabling the Java...
Date: 08/20/2013
Creating Azure Package of Tomcat with Azure SDK 1.8
Although there are already several posts about creating Windows Azure packages (notably here, I...
Date: 08/08/2013
System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring Preview Released!
I am proud to announce the preview version of Java Application Performance Monitoring (aka Java...
Date: 08/05/2013
WebSphere (7.0 & 6.1), Security, and BeanSpy
This page contains information about configuring the WebSphere Web Server to require BASIC...
Date: 06/24/2013
(Workaround) Enable discovery of WebSphere Network Deployments
The default WebSphere profile discovery is done by looking at registry entries. Specifically, the...
Date: 05/31/2013
BeanSpy: Cheat Sheet for Application Discoveries
Here is a quick summary (i.e. cheat sheet) for the JMX Queries through BeanSpy. JBoss Tomcat...
Date: 05/30/2013
BeanSpy: WebSphere Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications
If you are running WebSphere, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation....
Date: 05/30/2013
(Alternate) Chicken and Egg Problem == solved: How to extract BeanSpy or PowerShell scripts if there is no discovery?
I recently found another solution to the chicken v. egg problem that I mentioned in the previous...
Date: 05/03/2013
Chicken and Egg Problem == solved: How to extract BeanSpy or PowerShell scripts if there is no discovery?
One issue that you might experience with BeanSpy (or the universal discovery PowerShell script) is...
Date: 04/25/2013
MSSQL Report Builder: Connecting to a Report Server
By far the most useful page that I have view today is this one about Connecting to a Report Server...
Date: 02/04/2013
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 6.1 (version 2)
It would appear that yesterday's post may not work for everyone, and here is a second version that...
Date: 01/31/2013
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 6.1
By simply taking yesterday's post and applying the match of judicious copy-n-paste methodology: may...
Date: 01/30/2013
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 7.0
Similar to my previous posting, here is a sample management pack for monitoring EJBs on WebSphere...
Date: 01/28/2013
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on JBoss 5
Out-of-the-box, EJB discovery and monitoring are not supported by the SCOM 2012 JEE MPs...
Date: 01/25/2013
Extending Discovery Of Java Applications in SCOM 2012
The solution to monitoring JEE Application Servers and Applications in SCOM 2012 is a good starting...
Date: 01/24/2013
BeanSpy: WebLogic Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications
If you are running WebLogic, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation. Once...
Date: 01/22/2013
BeanSpy: JBoss Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications
IF you are running JBoss, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation. Once...
Date: 01/22/2013
BeanSpy: Apache Tomcat JMXQuery to list deployed applications
Once you have deployed BeanSpy to a web application server, the next step is to see that it works....
Date: 01/07/2013
Getting Rid of Very Long Directory Paths during msbuild process
My team recently encountered a problem during our build process where a left over intermediate file...
Date: 01/07/2013
PureText... because sometimes, you just want to simply paste
Kudos to Steven Miller for his PureText software. Let's face it, sometimes you just want to paste...
Date: 12/10/2012
Visual Studio Plugin for Editor Guidelines: Recommended!
As a developer at Microsoft who writes Java, I find myself frequently flipping back-and-forth...
Date: 08/30/2012
Recommended: Demystifying JEE App Performance Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012 (JEE FAQs)
Here is an excellent primer for more information about "Demystifying JEE App Performance Monitoring...
Date: 08/27/2012
Managing Tomcat 5.5 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs
Similar to the posts for Tomcat 6 (here) and Tomcat 7 (part 1 / part 2). This post (and Management...
Date: 06/14/2012
UNIX/Linux Discovery and Workaround: Application Server's path is a symbolic link or from a network mount
There is a bug in the Unix/Linux JEE application server code that for some configuration could...
Date: 06/07/2012
Connecting JConsole to WebSphere
In a previous posting I talked about connecting jConsole to connect Tomcat and JBoss, this time I...
Date: 05/31/2012
SCOMfaq.ch: SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template
Over on SCOMfaq.ch there is a great posting on SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability...
Date: 05/30/2012
JConsole: a tool for viewing MBeans
JConsole is tool provided by Oracle/Sun as of Java 5 to monitor a JVM through JMX. The purpose of...
Date: 05/30/2012
Tomcat 5.5: Additional Steps to Connect to the MBean Server
As part of SCOM 2012, there is a feature to discover and monitor Java Application Servers (support...
Date: 05/30/2012
Inframon: Excellent Blog Post about Monitoring WebSphere in System Center Operations Manager 2012
I am a late in finding it, but here is a great blog post by Inframon detailing how to monitor...
Date: 05/24/2012
Minor Typos in the JEE Application Server PowerShell scripts
The help messages provided in the PowerShell scripts for adding and removing Universal Instances of...
Date: 05/23/2012
Manually Discovering JEE Application Servers with SCOM 2012
Out-of-the-box, System Center Operations Manager can discover several different application server...
Date: 05/21/2012
Deploying Web Applications on different JEE Application Servers
This post will discuss how to deploy BeanSpy on the supported application server platforms. The...
Date: 04/26/2012
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 released!
Microsoft releases System Center 2012 to the public at large. For those who have not already tried...
Date: 04/18/2012
Sample JEE Application: Contoso Order Service
To get a better understanding of how to use the SCOM 2012 Add-on of the JEE Application Server...
Date: 03/26/2012