Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS
Enabling and disabling health management
Health management monitoring is enabled by default. You can enable or disable health management monitoring.
Before you begin
The health monitor uses health policies. A health policy is the definition of specific health criteria that you want your WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise to protect itself against. A number of default health policies are installed with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise. In addition to these broad default health policies, you can define more specific policies that apply for your environment. For more information about the default health policies, see Health management. For more information about creating a health policy, see Creating health policies.Depending on your administrative role, you are allowed specific privileges when configuring the autonomic managers. The following list shows the administrative roles and privileges for configuring the autonomic managers:
Monitor: Can view the information.
Operator: Can view the information on the configuration tab. Can change the settings on the runtime tab.
Configurator: Can change the configuration but not the runtime settings.
Administrator: Has all privileges.
About this task
Health management is enabled by default. Use health management to protect your system from many user application malfunctions, including memory leaks and application hangs. Health management uses health policies to define a set of conditions that WebSphere Virtual Enterprise can use to monitor the health of the system. See Health management and Creating health policies for more information.
Procedure
- In the administrative console, click Operational policies > Autonomic managers > Health controller .
- Enable or disable health monitoring. When the check box is selected, the environment is monitored for health conditions. When the check box is not selected, health monitoring is turned off.
Results
When enabled, the system is monitored for conditions that are defined by your health policies.
What to do next
Manage other health monitoring settings. See Monitor and tuning health management and HmmControllerProcs.jacl for more information.
Related reference
Administrative roles and privileges