Intelligent Management and IBM Enterprise Workload Manager

We can enable Intelligent Management to work with other autonomic managers, such as IBM Enterprise Workload Manager™.

If we enable the on demand router (ODR) to report request metrics, Application Response easurement (ARM) -enabled autonomic managers like Enterprise Workload Manager can influence how requests are processed in Intelligent Management. Enterprise Workload Manager has knowledge and control outside of the Intelligent Management domain. Enterprise Workload Manager can use the request metrics to determine if service class policies and transaction class policies defined in the Enterprise Workload Manager configuration are met. If we need to make changes to meet the requirements, Enterprise Workload Manager uses its knowledge and control outside of Intelligent Management to assist Intelligent Management in meeting the broader response time goals for Enterprise Workload Manager.

Support of ARM instrumentation in the ODR enables the reporting of response time metrics on a per transaction basis. ARM is an industry standard for accurate measurements of request and response transactions as they move through various tiers of applications. For more information about ARM and request metrics, see the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Information Center.

Any tiers that send requests to Intelligent Management must be ARM-enabled to facilitate the interaction between Enterprise Workload Manager and Intelligent Management. Any tiers that receive requests from Intelligent Management do not need to have ARM enabled, however, enabling ARM on these tiers is encouraged. For example, enable ARM on all application servers in software that works in cooperation with Intelligent Management, such as IBM DB2 and so on. Enterprise Workload Manager can make resource level measurements for tiers that do not have ARM enabled. We can also enable ARM reporting on any Web servers that forward requests to the ODR.

For more information about the IBM Enterprise Workload Manager, see the IBM Enterprise Workload Manager information center.

Enable the on demand router to work with IBM Enterprise Workload Manager

Getting performance data from request metrics

IBM Enterprise Workload Manager Knowledge Center