Configure the autonomic managers
Use these instructions to configure the behavior of the autonomic managers for Intelligent Management.
For more information on setting up the system, read about preparing the hosting environment for dynamic operations.
After preparing the environment to support autonomic management, configure autonomic managers to maximize the environment utilization based on the defined business goals. Autonomic managers monitor performance metrics, analyze the monitored data, offer a plan for running actions, and can start these actions in response to the flow of work. The following autonomic managers work in or with the Intelligent Management environment.
- Configure the autonomic request flow manager.
- Set up and monitor dynamic application placement.
- Monitor performance. Configure and monitor the database tier.
- Enable health management.
Subtopics
- 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.
- (dist)(zos) Configure the autonomic request flow manager
We can fine tune the autonomic request flow manager (ARFM) by changing the default settings in the console. We can enable node-based ARFM by setting a custom property.
- (dist)(zos) Configure dynamic application placement
Dynamic application placement is the process by which the features of the Intelligent Management dynamic operations work together to start and stop application instances to meet the fluctuating demand of work requests of varying service policy definitions. This set of actions is controlled by the application placement controller.
- (dist)(zos) Overview of IIOP and JMS request flow prioritization
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) and Java Message Service (JMS) request flow prioritization is achieved with the autonomic managers that control the flow of requests, prioritization of requests, and dynamic workload management. Only IIOP requests from a stand-alone EJB client are prioritized by Intelligent Management IIOP autonomic request flow management (ARFM). IIOP requests from EJB clients embedded within a servlet, a web service, or another EJB are not prioritized. This behavior exists because traffic associated with the same overall user request must not be prioritized at multiple tiers, such as the Web tier and EJB tier. However, given the asynchronous nature of JMS, no restrictions exist on where the requests originate.
- (dist)(zos) Optimizing the database tier for performance monitoring
We can configure Intelligent Management to provide real time information about the database tier, including central processing unit utilization, average response time, and throughput. We can access this information through the runtime topology in order to make adjustments when bottlenecks occur.
- (dist)(zos) Configure health management
Health management is the process by which Intelligent Management dynamic operations monitor and manage servers to preserve an optimal server environment.
Related concepts
Dynamic operations Overview of request flow prioritization
Related tasks
Set up Intelligent Management for dynamic operations