Diagnostic tools for WebSphere Application Server

There are a number of  publicly available tools and scripts that WebSphere Application Server component and service teams use for assisting and problem determination of  PMRs.

WebSphere Plugin tools - Perl Script for parsing WebSphere Plugin logs
https://github.com/covener/plugin-tools

HTTPSession -  Session tracker debug Servlet
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=pix&product=was-express-dist&topic=rtrb_httpsesncomp
Servlet name: com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.httpsession.IBMTrackerDebug  shipped with WAS.

Dynacache: Extended Cache Monitor and Flight Recorder
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2010/03/dynacache-flight-recorder-wsadmin.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/cache_monitor.html

HAManager: Awk scripts for analyzing  HAManager logs
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/files/app?lang=en_US#/person/0600007J6A/file/2499709b-2511-44ac-a38a-fa62b3e3e7aa

SIBus –Explorer & Destination Handler

• SIB Explorer: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sibexplorer
• SIB Performance Tool: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sibperf
• A tool to view, move, copy, delete, save and restore messages in the default messaging provider: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24021439

LDAP Tools

Apache Directory Studio Very handy LDAP tool based on Eclipse http://directory.apache.org/studio/index.html 

ldapSearch -  LDAP search tool http://linux.die.net/man/1/ldapsearch

Sun JVM ONLY Tools- jps, jstatd, jstack, jmap, jinfo, jhat visualVM & jConsole

Name space dumper $WAS_HOME/bin/dumpNameSpace tool

OSGI Bundle Explorer and debug utility  $WAS_HOME/bin/osgiConsole.sh/bat

ISA Tools