The Infrastructure Data Collector is the primary method for collecting infrastructure and SNMP data. The Infrastructure Data Collector uses the Monitoring API to pass operational data and monitoring model data to the Analytic Engine. The Monitoring API is designed as a programmatic interface to the systems monitoring functionality of a business integration platform. It communicates over JMS, utilizing a JMS queue, to provide secure and reliable communications between Optimize and the Infrastructure Data Collector.

The Infrastructure Data Collector lets you identify webMethods component resources that you want to monitor and analyze. Using the Infrastructure Data Collector, you can monitor the following:

For more information about discovering and monitoring components, see Discovering Assets and Monitoring Components.