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Intelligent Management: overview

Intelligent Management provides an enhanced quality of service in dynamic operations and extended manageability.


What is Intelligent Management?

Intelligent Management provides application server virtualization, resource management, and a host of advanced operational facilities, such as performance visualization, health management, and application edition management. Use Intelligent Management to enhance operational efficiency by deploying dynamic operations, servicing high-volume transactional workloads with linear scalability and high availability, and by managing large scale, continuously available application server environments.

Application edition management provides the ability to roll out new versions of applications without experiencing downtime for a maintenance window. Health management offers you the ability to specify conditions to monitor and corrective actions to take when the conditions are observed. Both of these capabilities improve the resiliency and availability of applications in an Intelligent Management environment. Dynamic workload management allows us to automatically change the application footprint during runtime, based on incoming application demand. As a result, multiple applications sharing a common resource pool can provision the average usage, and can share a set of resources to handle peak usage scenarios.

Intelligent Management does not change any Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment binary files. Specific Intelligent Management features can only be used with specific applications; any limitations depend on the application design, performance, and quality of service requirement. Most limitations can be overcome by tuning your topology or configuring the applications.

Intelligent Management depends on some Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) metrics. When Intelligent Management is enabled, the application server does not let you disable PMI metrics that Intelligent Management requires. However, we can add additional counters beyond the Intelligent Management PMI defaults.

Locking locations Module Module counters locked
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router xdProcessModule All
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router jvmRuntimeModule All
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router systemModule All
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router threadPoolModule 6, 7, 8
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router xdHeapModule All
Nodeagent, server or on-demand router odrStatModule All
Nodeagent xdSystemModule All
Server or on-demand router DeploymentTargets All
Server or on-demand router xdOdrSessionModule All
Server or on-demand router servletSessionsModule 6, 7
Server or on-demand router beanModule 11, 12
Server or on-demand router webAppModule 11, 13

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