Runtime operations overview
With Intelligent Management, we can manage complex system operations with real time, meaningful visualization tools. Gradually controlled implementation of autonomic capabilities helps reduce resource management costs.
Operational alerts
Operational alerts inform you of the current state of the environment, including any issues, so that we can take action if necessary. For example, we might see an operational alert when a service policy is breached. For notification about issues that are continuing to occur over multiple intervals, runtime tasks are generated.
Reports
Use customized charting to show if goals are being met. To benefit from this virtualized environment, we must know how the applications are performing. Dynamic charting provides a visual perspective of application performance. Specifically, statistics such as availability, response time, traffic, and throughput are supported. A wide range of options from which we can create various charts is also provided.
We can organize your charts into chart groups to access charts from any reports view.
We can move charts to a new window to continue viewing the chart while performing other tasks in the administrative console. We can also move the chart back to the original chart group.
We can also view reports in the Reports tab of the following settings panels:
- Applications
- Dynamic clusters
- Clusters
- Servers
- Service policies
Runtime operations reports use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to display the data. Microsoft Internet Explorer does not have an SVG viewer installed by default. We can install a SVG plug-in or configure runtime operations to display JPEG images. See creating and managing reports.
The runtime operations reports are blank until we begin running an active load against the cell.
Dashboard
The dashboard displays a high level summary of our overall environment. Use the dashboard preferences to configure the information that displays in the dashboard, such as the default reports or the data from a specified chart group.
Runtime summaries
We can view the runtime information for the on demand routers, nodes, core groups, applications, deployment targets, service policies, and core components in the environment.
Core components include a variety of autonomic controllers and managers.
The runtime summaries include a list of instances for the particular resource type, status, stability and other information.
The charts included in the applications, deployment targets, and service policies summary views do not automatically refresh. To update the data, we can click the refresh icon on the chart. These charts display the average response time at a certain point in time. The default number of data sets displayed is 5. We can, however, configure custom properties to specify that a unique number of data sets be displayed instead. See runtime operations custom properties.
If we are not running any work load requests through the on demand router to the applications, no data is displayed in the chart. Also, if we are charting service policy related metrics, no goal lines for the data set are displayed in the key. After the ODR sends the work load requests, the chart is automatically updated and the statistics are displayed. However, the key table is not automatically updated. Refresh the panel to view the goal lines that are added to the data set.
To access the runtime summaries, click Runtime operations in the administrative console.
Operations tabs
The operations tabs show the overall status of the selected item in the following settings panels:
- Applications
- Dynamic clusters
- Clusters
- Servers
- Core groups