Environment setup

To begin caching the environment must be prepared. The cache monitor, CacheMonitor.ear application , must be installed. WAS provides a Dynamic Cache Monitor application for displaying cache statistics, Edge Side and disk statistics, cache entries, dependency IDs, and cache policy information. In order to inspect the contents and behavior of the WAS dynamic cache, you should install the WebSphere Application Server Dynamic Cache Monitor.

 

Install the ESI cache monitor

If you will be caching outside of WAS, use Edge Side Include (ESI). To see the Edge Cache statistics using the cache monitor, install the DynaCacheEsi.ear Web application. The Edge Cache statistics can be viewed by launching the cache monitor.

 

Related tasks

Enabling the Dynamic Cache Monitor
Tutorial: Configuring edge side caching using ESI

 

Related Reference

Caching defaults