Manage the Intelligent Management environment

We can configure additional functions to enhance the autonomic functions of the application infrastructure virtualization environment. These functions include maintenance mode, health management, centralized installation manager, high availability deployment manager, repository checkpoints, and autonomic managers.

Configure the on demand router (ODR), servers, dynamic clusters, applications, and service policies.

After setting up the basic hosting environment with application server virtualization, we can tune the behavior of the managers that make decisions in the environment. We can also configure several features to help with administration.

• Set the maintenance mode.

• Use fine-grained security in the Intelligent Management environment.

• Configure the autonomic managers.

• Manage routing requests to nodes outside of the Intelligent Management cell.

• Set up a high availability deployment manager environment.

Subtopics

• (dist)(zos) Set maintenance mode
  Set maintenance mode before you perform diagnostic tests, maintenance, or tuning on a node or server. Maintenance mode can prevent the disruption of client requests by routing client traffic that is targeted for a server or node that is in maintenance mode to another server or node.

• (dist)(zos) Route to servers that are in maintenance mode
  We can build complex rule conditions from subexpressions to modify routing policy Session Initiation Protocol(SIP) rules, and route certain messages to servers that are in maintenance mode while routing other traffic to servers that are not in maintenance mode from within the same dynamic cluster.

• Generating Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps
  We can generate Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 1 traps for health events and dynamic cluster start and stop application server events.

• (dist)(zos) Configure the autonomic managers
  Use these instructions to configure the behavior of the autonomic managers for Intelligent Management.

• (dist)(zos) Route requests to nodes that are not running Intelligent Management
  Use this task for configuring multiple tiers.

• Configure a high availability deployment manager environment
  The high availability (HA) deployment manager function can be configured to eliminate single point of failure for administrative functions in a WAS Network Deployment cell.

• (dist)(zos) Use centralized logging to diagnose problems
  We can use centralized logging to easily enable mustGather traces, perform a per-request trace analysis, and follow the flow of a request through both the ODR and application server tiers.

• (dist)(zos) Intelligent Management: administrator scripting interface
  This reference information provides examples of how to complete various tasks using the administrative scripting interface.

• (dist)(zos) Intelligent Management: custom properties
  Custom properties are unique settings in the administrative console. They are name-value pairs that we can enter on specific administrative console pages. Use the documentation for the specific custom property to determine where the property must be set.