Instrument remote servers


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Overview

Instrument appservers to collect...


Instrument a remote server

  1. Install an SSH server each remote computer

  2. Install DCI on each computer where we will collect performance data

  3. Start the application server

  4. Start the instrumenter...

      Start | Programs | IBM Software Delivery Platform | Rational Data Collection Infrastructure | Application Server Instrumenter

  5. Instrument the appserver. See the examples that follow.

  6. After instrumentation, restart the application server.


Instrument remote Windows with WAS v7

To instrument a remote Windows computer named portal2.setgetweb.com that is equipped with an IBM WAS V7.0, where the server is named server1 installed in...

...with profile name AppSrv01, and security enabled:

  1. Make a backup of appserver.

    If interrupted or otherwise compromised, the instrumenter can corrupt the appserver, rendering it inoperable. You'll want to restore with a clean copy if necessary.

  2. Click Add Remote.

  3. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.x
    Profile name AppSrv01
    Server name server1
    Server home C:\IBM\WAS70\AppServer
    Requires global security Checked
    User wasadmin
    Password wasadmin

  4. Click the Connection tab.

    Host portal2.setgetweb.com
    User michael
    Password password

  5. Click OK.

  6. It may take several minutes to instrument...

  7. You should get a success message in the end.


Instrument remote Linux with WAS v6 - no security

To instrument a remote Linux computer named linux1 that is equipped with an IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 5.0 or later, where the server is named server1, installed in the directory

...and no security...

  1. Click Add Remote.

  2. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type list IBM WebSphere Application Server v5.x
    Server name server1
    Server home /opt/WebSphere/AppServer

  3. Click the Connection tab.

    Host linux1
    User SSH user ID
    Password SSH password

  4. Click OK.


Instrument remote Linux with WAS v6

To instrument a remote Linux computer named linux2, that is equipped with an IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.0, where the server is named server2, installed in...

...profile name default, and security enabled

  1. Click Add Remote.

  2. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.x
    Profile name default
    Server name server2
    Server home /opt/WebSphere/AppServer
    Requires global security Select
    User WebSphere user ID
    Password WebSphere password
    Save password Select or clear

  3. Click the Connection tab.

    linux2 Host
    SSH user ID User
    SSH password Password

  4. Click the Advanced tab and specify RSA/DSA authentication information and other options.

  5. Click OK.


Instrument remote Linux with WebLogic

To instrument a remote Linux computer named linux3 that is equipped with a WebLogic application server named server1 installed...'

...Java home /opt/bea/jdk15, admin server host abc.ibm.com, admin server port 7001, and start script file...

  1. Start the WebLogic server. The WebLogic server must be started with the JVM that is included with RPTv8. The JRockit VM is not a supported JVM.

    For managed WebLogic servers, the Java Home variable must refer to the Sun JVM that came with WebLogic.

  2. Click Add Remote.

  3. Click the Application Server tab

    Type list WebLogic Application Server v8.x
    Server name server1
    Server home /opt/bea/weblogic81
    Java home /opt/bea/jdk15
    Admin server host abc.ibm.com
    Admin server port 7001
    User WebLogic user ID
    Password WebLogic password
    A script starts this server
    Script /opt/bea/weblogic81/mydomain/startManagedWeblogic.sh

  4. Click the Connection tab.

    Host linux3
    User SSH user ID
    Password SSH password

  5. Click OK.

  6. Stop and restart the server.


Instrument remote Windows with WAS v5

To instrument a remote Windows computer named windows1 that is equipped with an IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 5.0 or later, where the server is named my_Server installed in...

...and security enabled:

  1. Click Add Remote.

  2. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type IBM WebSphere Application Server v5.x
    Server name my_Server
    Server home C:\Program Files\was5.x
    Requires global security
    User WebSphere user ID
    Password WebSphere password

  3. Click the Connection tab.

    Host windows1
    User SSH user ID
    Password SSH password

  4. Click OK.


Instrument remote Windows with WAS v6

To instrument a remote Windows computer named windows2 that is equipped with an IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.0, where the server is named my_Server2 installed in...

...with profile name default, and security enabled:

  1. Click Add Remote.

  2. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.x
    Profile name default
    Server name my_Server2
    Server home C:\Program Files\was6.0
    Requires global security
    User WebSphere user ID
    Password WebSphere password

  3. Click the Connection tab.

    windows2 Host
    SSH user ID User
    SSH password Password

  4. Click OK.


Instrument remote Windows with WebLogic

To instrument a remote Windows computer named windows3 that is equipped with a WebLogic application server named server1, installed in...

Java home...

...admin server host localhost, admin server port 7001, and start script file...

  1. Start the WebLogic server. The WebLogic server must be started with the JVM that is included with RPTv8. The JRockit VM is not a supported JVM. For managed WebLogic servers, the Java Home variable must refer to the Sun JVM that came with WebLogic.

  2. Click Add Remote.

  3. Click the Application Server tab.

    Type WebLogic Application Server v8.x
    Server name server1
    Server home C:\bea\weblogic81
    Java home C:\bea\jdk15
    Admin server host localhost
    Admin server port 7001
    User WebLogic user ID
    Password WebLogic password
    A script starts this server
    Script C:\bea\weblogic81\mydomain\startManagedWeblogic.cmd

  4. Click the Connection tab.

    Host windows3
    User SSH user ID
    Password SSH password

  5. Click OK.

  6. Stop and restart the server.


What to do next

Repeat the instrumentation steps for each application server involved in any data collection for the applications that you will profile. Typically, there will be only one application server.


Related

  1. Data collection infrastructure overview
  2. Instrument local servers
  3. Instrument servers using the command prompt
  4. Start the data collection infrastructure
  5. Stop the data collection infrastructure
  6. Remove instrumentation
  7. Remove instrumentation using the command prompt