The following sections provide information that you need to know before installing BEA TSAM product software:
BEA TSAM (Tuxedo System and Application Monitor) provides comprehensive monitoring and reporting for BEA Tuxedo system and applications. It includes two components: BEA TSAM Agent and BEA TSAM Manager.
The BEA TSAM agent enables collection of various performance metrics for applications, including XA and non-XA transactions, services, system servers. BEA TSAM Manager provides graphical user interface to correlate and aggregate performance metrics collected from one or more Tuxedo domains and display it in real time.
BEA TSAM Agent is supported in the following Tuxedo releases:
BEA TSAM Manager is included in the BEA TSAM 1.1 installer. It is not mandatory to install BEA TSAM Manager on a machine running Tuxedo.
You must ensure that the BEA TSAM Agent component is properly configured on each node to be monitored in order to use in conjunction with the BEA TSAM Manager.
For a listing of BEA TSAM-supported platforms, see BEA TSAM 1.1 Supported Platforms.
The BEA TSAM software is distributed as an installation program for Windows or UNIX systems. The BEA TSAM installation program supports three installation methods. You can use any of these methods to install the BEA TSAM product software:
BEA TSAM is distributed on both the BEA Web site and DVD.
An evaluation copy of BEA TSAM is available for download from the BEA corporate Web site at http://commerce.beasys.com/products/tuxedojolt/tuxedo_prod_fam.jsp. Platform-specific installer files for the BEA TSAM product software are available for download from the BEA corporate Web site.
If you purchased BEA TSAM from your local sales representative, you will find the following items in the BEA TSAM product box:
You are now ready to begin your installation. To install BEA TSAM 1.1, see one of the following sections: