Obtaining advice from the advisors

Advisors provide a variety of recommendations that help improve the performance of your application server.

About this taskTuning WebSphere Application Server is a critical part of getting the best performance from your Web site. However, tuning WebSphere Application Server involves analyzing performance data and determining the optimal server configuration. This determination requires considerable knowledge about the various components in the application server and their performance characteristics. The performance advisors encapsulate this knowledge, analyze the performance data, and provide configuration recommendations to improve the application server performance. Therefore, the performance advisors provide a starting point to the application server tuning process and help you without requiring that you become an expert.

Procedure

• Decide which performance advisor is right for the purpose, Runtime Performance Advisor or Tivoli Performance Viewer advisor.

• Use the chosen advisor to periodically check for inefficient settings, and to view recommendations.

• Analyze Performance Monitoring Infrastructure data with performance advisors.

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