This IBM Redbooks publication provides practical information related to using the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit. Using this toolkit, software developers can provide facilities to enable applications or other system components to participate in an autonomic environment. IBM provides the Autonomic Computing Toolkit to assist software developers in enabling components, products, and solutions to become autonomic. The toolkit also provides the base for developers of management software to be able to manage entities that have been properly enabled. As with the technologies themselves, this toolkit will evolve as new capabilities and tools become available. This book provides a view of the Autonomic Computing Toolkit as it exists today and describes how it can be used to enable autonomic capabilities. This book primarily focuses on the problem determination capabilities provided by the Autonomic Computing Toolkit. Other facilities, such as Solution Installation and Integrated Console support, to name two, will be covered in future books. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.