Probably a good idea to create a (web) portal to have one central point of access to these tools.

• End-to-end "shallow ping" through the system, service level

• Front end for centralized Logging

• Monitoring of the system and services
  • Monitoring the workflow/value chain is often a good idea

• Client for ConfigService

• Metrics and reports (BI?)

• Management tools for the applications and hardware.

• JMX

JMS

• check that all topics and queues exist and that add/remove messages work.

• Performance
  • throughput (Object and TextMessage)
  • is the sending or the receiving the bottleneck?

• Cleanup
  • purge a Queue/Topic
  • purge all Queues/Topics

• Information
  • supported transport protocols
  • is messages persisted?
  • number of sessions
  • number of consumers per Destination
  • Min, max and average values for each Destination