Intelligent Management: autonomic controllers custom properties
We can use custom properties to configure the autonomic controllers to always start on a particular node or deployment manager process.
To force a controller to always start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the HAManagedItemPreferred_component_variable custom property on the specific deployment manager or node.
Set the custom property on a node agent process.
- In the console, click System administration > Nodes > node > Node agent > Java and process management > Process definition > JVM > Custom properties.
- Enter the name of the custom property.
- Set the value of the custom property to true.
- Click Apply, and save the changes.
Set the custom property on a deployment manager process.
- In the console, click System administration > dmgr > Java and process management > Process definition > JVM > Custom properties.
- Enter the name of the custom property.
- Set the value of the custom property to true.
- Click Apply, and save the changes.
After setting each custom property, perform these steps:
- Restart the current process in which the controller is running. Skip this step if the custom property is used in the environment for the first time.
- Restart the JVM where the custom property was set.
Examples
To configure the application placement controller to start on a specific deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_apc=true
If the cell is started after the custom property is set, the application placement controller starts at the specified deployment manager or node agent process. If the cell is already active when the custom property is set, the controller starts with the specified process only after the cell is stopped and started again.
When you use elasticity mode in an environment in which multi-cell performance management is configured, configure certain controllers to start on the deployment managers of the center cell and the point cells.
When using elasticity mode, set the HAManagedItemPreferred_apc custom property on the deployment manager or node that will not be removed. Otherwise, the application placement controller does not operate. gotcha
To configure the autonomic request flow manager to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_arfm=true
To configure the health management controller to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_hmm=true
To configure the high availability plugin-cfg generation service to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_PluginCfgGenerator=true
To configure the VMware activity publisher to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_vmshimactivitypublisher=true
To configure the cell agent to start on the deployment managers of the point cells, set the following custom property:
HAManagedItemPreferred_cellagent=true
Related concepts
Dynamic operations
Related tasks
Configure the autonomic managers Configure multi-cell performance management: Star Topology Generating the plug-in configuration in a high availability environment Configure VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and Intelligent Management