Work with PMI service properties files

Use properties files to create or change Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) service properties under a server.

Determine the changes to make to your PMI service configuration or its configuration objects.

Start the wsadmin scripting tool. To start wsadmin using the Jython language, run the wsadmin -lang jython command from the bin directory of the server profile.

Use a properties file to create, modify, or delete a PMI service configuration properties.

Run administrative commands using wsadmin to change a properties file for a PMI service, validate the properties, and apply them to the configuration.

Action	Procedure
create	Not applicable
modify	Edit properties and then run the applyConfigProperties command.
delete	Not applicable
create Property	Set properties and then run the applyConfigProperties command.
delete Property	Properties to delete in the properties file and then run the deleteConfigProperties command.

Optionally, we can use interactive mode with the commands:

AdminTask.command_name('-interactive')

Tasks

• Create PMI service properties.

  1. Specify PMIService properties in a properties file.

     Open an editor and specify PMI service properties under a server in a properties file. We can copy the following example properties into an editor and modify the properties as needed for our situation. The example shows a property under PMIService with name myName and value myVal.

     #
     # Header
     #
     ResourceType=PMIService
     ImplementingResourceType=PMIService
     ResourceId=Cell=!{cellName}:Node=!{nodeName}:Server=!{serverName}:PMIService=
     AttributeInfo=services
     #
     
     #
     #Properties
     #
     synchronizedUpdate=false #boolean,default(false)
     enable=true #boolean,default(false)
     context=!{serverName}
     statisticSet=basic
     initialSpecLevel=
     
     
     #
     # Header
     #
     ResourceType=PMIService
     ImplementingResourceType=PMIService
     ResourceId=Cell=!{cellName}:Node=!{nodeName}:Server=!{serverName}:PMIService=
     AttributeInfo=properties(name,value)
     #
     
     #Properties
     #
     myName=myVal
     #
     
     EnvironmentVariablesSection
     #
     #Environment Variables
     cellName=WASCell06
     serverName=myServer
     nodeName=WASNode04
     

  2. Run the applyConfigProperties command to create a PMIService configuration.

     Running the applyConfigProperties command applies the properties file to the configuration. In this Jython example, the optional -reportFileName parameter produces a report named report.txt:

     AdminTask.applyConfigProperties(['-propertiesFileName myObjectType.props -reportFileName report.txt'])
     

• Modify existing PMI service properties.
  1. Obtain a properties file for the PMI service to change.

     We can extract a properties file for a PMIService using the extractConfigProperties command.

  2. Open the properties file in an editor and change the properties as needed.

     Ensure that the environment variables in the properties file match the system.

  3. Run the applyConfigProperties command.

• Delete the PMI service properties.

  To delete one or more properties, specify only those properties to delete in the properties file and run deleteConfigProperties.

  AdminTask.deleteConfigProperties('[-propertiesFileName myObjectType.props -reportFileName report.txt]') 
  

Use the properties file to configure and manage the PMI service.

What to do next

Save the changes to the configuration.

Extracting properties files

Create server, cluster, application, or authorization group objects using properties files and wsadmin scripting

Deleting server, cluster, application, or authorization group objects using properties files

PropertiesBasedConfiguration .