ISA for WebSphere Portal

ISA is a great tool for the many IBM stacks used by the A2Z Bank runtime architecture. It includes capabilities for portal troubleshooting. ISA Lite for WebSphere Portal is an evolution of an IBM internal portal problem determination tool, which only focuses on WebSphere Portal. It is very light, being appropriate for all environments. One of the reasons for having this tool in your troubleshooting arsenal is because it can be easily installed in development and integration environments, allowing for efficient early isolation and diagnostics. It is also a great tool to have in the staging and production environments. Even in your own unit-testing environment, this tool can be beneficial. If you refer to the preceding workflow screenshot, this tool and its processes fall under the Diagnose Problem use case. ISA should be set up right, because the environments become ready for use. This should not be delayed until problems are manifested. Let's now take a look at some...