Manage the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment
Overview
After host environment setup, tune the behavior of the managers that make decisions in the environment and configure administration features.
Before you begin, configure the on demand router, servers, dynamic clusters, applications, and service policies.
Procedure
- Set maintenance mode on the nodes and servers to perform diagnostic tests, maintenance, or tuning on a node or server without fear of disrupting incoming traffic to that node or server in a production environment.
- Configure health management. With health management, the health controller monitors health policies, which contain conditions to look for in the environment, and actions to take when these conditions are not met.
- Use the centralized installation manager to shorten the number of steps that are required to create and manage the environments.
- The HA deployment manager function can be configured to eliminate the deployment manager as a single point of failure for administrative functions in a Network Deployment cell.
- Configure repository checkpoints to save images of the repository before configuration changes are made. You can use these images to restore the configuration repository back to a prior state.
- Tune the behavior of the autonomic managers that make decisions for the environment, including the health controller, autonomic request flow manager, and the application placement controller.
What to do next
Monitor the operations of the environment.
Related tasks
Prepare the hosting environment for dynamic operations
Configure health management
Use the centralized installation manager
Configure a checkpoint
Configure the autonomic managers
Monitor operations
Set maintenance mode