IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics, Version 7.1.0.1
Take Action commands for ITCAM Agent for J2EE
Use Take Action feature, your interactive Tivoli Enterprise Portal users can enter a command that stops or starts a process at any system in your network where one or more Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents are installed. With the ITCAM Agent for J2EE Take Action commands, you can use the portal interface to start, stop, or recycle a J2EE application server or to control the level of monitoring for the current server.
You can start a Take Action command from a workspace, from the Navigator, from a situation that you create, in an ad hoc mode, or by recalling a saved Take Action command. For details on using these general features, see the online help for Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
- Enable_Auto_Threshold: set threshold parameters
Use the Enable_Auto_Threshold Take Action to set automatic threshold parameters and remove any overrides of the thresholds.- Override_Auto_Threshold: override threshold values
Use the Override_Auto_Threshold Take Action to override fair and bad response time threshold values for any request in the application. In this case, while the baselining statistical data is still preserved, ITCAM will not use automatically calculated thresholds.- Recycle_Application_Server: Recycle a J2EE application
Use the Recycle_Application_Server command to stop and then restart an application server. The J2SE application server does not support this take action command.- Remove_J2EE_Application: Remove a J2EE Application
You can use the Remove_J2EE_Application command to remove an application that is in an undeployed state.- Remove_J2EE_SubNode: Remove an inactive J2EE application server
Use the Remove_SubNode command to remove a J2EE application server that is no longer active from the Navigator tree.- Set_Application_Monitoring: Set monitoring
Use the Set_Application_Monitoring command to set monitoring of the J2EE application. The J2SE application server does not support this take action command.- Set_Completion_Thresholds: Set completion thresholds
Use the Set_Completion_Thresholds command to define the thresholds of the error rate for the J2EE application. The J2SE application server does not support this take action command.- Set_Request_Sampling_Rate: Set the sampling rate for request data
Use the Set_Request_Sampling_Rate command to define the percentage of requests to monitor.- Start_Application_Server: Start a J2EE application server
Use the Start_Application_Server command to start a J2EE application server. The J2SE application server does not support this take action command.- Start_Baselining: start the baselining process
ITCAM can run a baselining process for every application. During this process, which runs for a preset period, the data collector will collect statistical data on metric values for a given period. Based on this statistical data, the monitoring agent can automatically set the fair and bad thresholds, as well as the typical breakdown of response times for nested request. Use the Start)Baselining Take Action to start the baselining process.- Start_GC_Monitoring: Begin reporting garbage-collection data
Use the Start_GC_Monitoring command to activate the display of garbage-collection statistics. This setting is on top of the J2EE Application Server Verbose Garbage Collection value, which must also be active for garbage-collection data to be reported.- Start_Request_Monitoring : Begin reporting request data
Use the Start_Request_Monitoring command to activate the display of request data.- Start_Resource_Monitoring: Begin reporting PMI data
Use the Start_Resource_Monitoring command to activate the display of resource (that is, PMI) data. This setting is on top of the J2EE Application Server PMI instrumentation levels, which must also be set for resource data to be reported.- Stop_Application_Server: Stop a J2EE application server
Use the Stop_Application_Sever command to stop an application server. The J2SE application server does not support this take action command.- Stop_Baselining: stop the baselining process
Use the Stop_Baselining Take Action to immediately stop the baselining process for an application, and recalculate the thresholds based on the request data available up to this point.- Stop_GC_Monitoring: Stop reporting garbage-collection data
Use the Stop_GC_Monitoring command to end the display of garbage-collection statistics.- Stop_Request_Monitoring: Stop reporting request data
Use the Stop_Request_Monitoring command to end the display of request data.- Stop_Resource_Monitoring: Stop reporting PMI data
Use the Stop_Resource_Monitoring command to end the display of resource (that is, PMI) data.- Update_Baseline: trigger a baseline update
If the baselining process is running, the thresholds will be set automatically when either the Period or the Update Interval passes. For the initial baselining process, the first automatic update happens after one hour. With the Update_Baseline Take Action, you can force ITCAM to update the thresholds immediately, based on the information collected so far. This may be useful if you do not want to wait for the periodic automatic update. Once the automatic update time comes, the threshold will be updated again.- Threshold calculation detail
To set parameters that affect the calculation of the automatic response time thresholds, you may need to know the details of this calculation.
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ITCAM Agent for J2EE