Enable PMI using the administrative console
When PMI service is enabled, the monitoring of individual components can be enabled or disabled dynamically.
To monitor performance data through the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI), first enable PMI through the administrative console.
- Open the administrative console.
- Click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name.
- Click the Configuration tab.
- Click Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) under Performance.
- Select the Enable Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) check box.
- Optionally, select the check box Use sequential counter updates to enable precise statistic update.
- Optionally, choose a statistic set that needs to be monitored under Currently Monitored Statistic Set.
- Optionally, click on Custom to selectively enable or disable statistics. Choose a component from the tree and enable or disable statistics on the opposite table. Go back to the main PMI configuration page by clicking the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure link.
- Click Apply or OK.
- Click Save.
- Restart the application server. The changes made will not take effect until you restart the application server.
What to do next
When in the Configuration tab, settings apply after the server is restarted.
Subtopics
- Performance Monitoring Infrastructure settings
Use this page to specify settings for performance monitoring, including enabling performance monitoring, selecting the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) module and setting monitoring levels.
- Custom monitoring level
Use this page to enable and disable specific PMI counters for individual PMI statistics.
- Performance Monitoring Infrastructure collection
Use this page to configure Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI).
Related tasks
Configure PMI
Running the monitoring applications with security enabled
Enable PMI