• Product overview
    • What is new in this release
    • z/OS considerations
    • Virtualization and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
      • Supported server virtualization environments [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
    • Dynamic operations
      • Overview of dynamic operations
      • Overview of request flow prioritization
      • Dynamic operations environment
    • Components of dynamic operations
      • Operational policies
    • Extended manageability
    • Supported middleware server types
    • Middleware nodes and servers
    • Middleware agent
    • Learn more about WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • Migrating the product
    • Migrating product configurations
      • Using the Migration wizard
      • XDPreUpgrade command
      • XDUpgrade command
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 deployment manager
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 node
    • Migrating to a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 7.0 cell [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
    • Migrating large topologies of external WebSphere application servers [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Migration toolkit [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
    • Where migration tasks are performed
  • Installing and customizing the product
    • Hardware and software requirements
    • Distributed operating systems
      • Installation scenarios
      • Virtual Enterprise topology
      • Installing in a WebSphere Application Server environment
      • Installing in other server environments
      • Installing the product
      • Installing silently
      • Installation parameters
      • Using the centralized installation manager repository tool to add products
      • Using the Update Installer to install maintenance packages
        • Updating the middleware agent [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Creating and installing customized packages
        • Build definition file
        • Creating and installing a CIP
          • Creating a build definition file and generating a CIP
          • Installing a CIP
            • Silently installing a CIP
            • Installing a CIP to apply maintenance to an existing product installation
          • Uninstalling CIP updates from an existing product installation
        • Creating and installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Creating a build definition file and generating an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
            • Silently installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Modifying an existing build definition file for an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Creating and augmenting profiles
        • Using the graphical user interface to create profiles
          • Creating profiles for multiple products
          • Creating profiles for use with other IBM products
        • Using the graphical user interface to augment profiles
          • Augmenting profiles with multiple product augment templates
        • Using the manageprofiles command to create profiles
        • Using the manageprofiles command to augment and unaugment profiles
        • Non-root profile creation and augmentation
        • First steps console
      • Uninstalling the product
    • z/OS
      • Installing the Application Server Toolkit Version 6.1.1 and the Profile Management tool for z/OS
      • Augmenting z/OS profiles
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize the deployment manager profile
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize a managed application server profile
      • Uploading a customized job
  • Preparing the hosting environment for dynamic operations
    • Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
    • Federating middleware nodes
    • Creating and configuring ODRs
      • Creating ODRs
      • Configuring ODRs
      • On demand router settings
      • Creating a cluster of on demand routers
      • Configuring a Web server as a trusted proxy server
      • Enabling cell affinity [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Cell affinity function [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Configuring cell affinity in a multi-tiered environment [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Defining generic server clusters for remote ODR cells [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Cell affinity when an ODR fails [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Tuning the on demand router (ODR) [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Modifying the JVM heap size for the on demand router [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Tuning ODR persistent requests [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Tuning ODR maximum connections [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Configuring custom logs [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Custom logs overview [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Configuring SSL offload for all HTTPS traffic
      • Configuring SSL offload for partial HTTPS traffic
      • Integrating the SIP on demand router with Load Balancer [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Defining routing policies for generic server clusters
        • Configuring rewriting rules [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Defining service policies for generic server clusters
      • Configuring communication between core groups that are in the same cell
      • Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise for cross-cell communication
        • Enabling communication between cells that have security enabled
      • Configuring an on demand router to dynamically update the Web server plug-in configuration
        • Generating the plug-in configuration in a high availability environment [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • Controlling the generation of the plugin-cfg.xml file
      • Routing requests directly from a Web server to a back-end application server [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Configuring passive HTTP session affinity in the on demand router
      • Configuring the on demand router for multi-cluster failover and load balancing routing
    • Adding middleware servers to configurations
      • Adding complete life-cycle middleware servers
        • PHP servers and dynamic clusters
        • WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Configuring JMX security for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2.1 servers [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Adding assisted life-cycle middleware servers
        • WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
        • Apache Tomcat servers
        • BEA WebLogic servers
        • JBoss servers
        • Custom HTTP servers
        • External WebSphere application servers [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Managing middleware servers
        • Configuring middleware descriptors
        • Creating middleware server templates
        • Configuring middleware server operations
        • Viewing middleware server configuration files
        • Configuring the external log viewing service
    • Creating dynamic clusters
      • Dynamic clusters
      • Static clusters versus dynamic clusters
      • Dynamic cluster isolation
      • Configuring application lazy start
        • Application lazy start
        • The lazy start controller
      • Configuring vertical stacking
        • Determining the stacking number for a dynamic cluster
        • Configuring a dynamic cluster with homogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
        • Configuring a dynamic cluster with heterogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
      • HTTP session rebalancing
    • Deploying applications with defined service levels
      • Deploying enterprise applications
      • Deploying unmanaged Web applications
      • Deploying PHP applications
      • Deploying WebSphere Application Server Community Edition applications [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
    • Routing and service policies
      • Defining a service policy
      • Subexpression builder operands for routing and service policies
        • SOAP operands
        • SIP operands
        • IIOP operands
        • HTTP operands
    • Service policy rules
      • Rules support
      • Routing policy action types
      • Overview of work classes
      • Work class types
      • Request classification operators
      • Rule-based request classification
  • Managing the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment
    • Setting maintenance mode
    • Routing to servers that are in maintenance mode [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
    • Manually replacing SSL certificates for the middleware agent [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
    • Configuring health management
      • Health management
        • Excessive request timeout health policy target timeout value
      • Creating health policies
        • Creating health policy custom actions
    • Using the centralized installation manager to manage your environment
      • Centralized installation manager overview
      • Installing packages
        • Downloading the Update Installer for WebSphere Application Server
        • Downloading package descriptors and the associated binary files
          • Installing interim fixes
          • Installing refresh packs or fix packs
          • Manually adding files to the repository [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
        • Downloading and installing WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2.0 or later [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
        • Installing sudo on target AIX operating systems to apply maintenance as a non-root user [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Uninstalling packages
      • Monitoring requests
      • Managing installation targets
        • Using Remote Execution and Access to access remote installation targets
        • Installing the Secure Shell public key to access installation targets
        • Running Cygwin as root to use SSH on target Windows operating systems
        • Updating Secure Shell public key installation records
    • Routing requests to nodes that are not running WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
      • Routing requests to external nodes with generic server clusters
        • Enabling external monitoring with the remote agent
      • Multiple tiers of processing
      • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise topology terminology
      • Configuring speed factors in multiple tier configurations
        • Overriding work factor estimates
        • Configuring node computing power
    • Configuring a high availability deployment manager environment
      • Adding the signer certificate from the secondary deployment manager to the local trust store [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • The high availability deployment manager
      • xd_hadmgrAdd command
      • xd_hadmgrRemove command
    • Configuring a checkpoint
      • The repository checkpoint and restore function
      • Restoring a checkpoint
    • Configuring the autonomic managers
      • Configuring the autonomic request flow manager
        • Configuring emergency throttle
        • Memory overload protection [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • Configuring memory overload protection [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • Trace settings for autonomic request flow manager and application placement
        • Request prioritization problems
      • Configuring dynamic application placement
        • Configuring application placement for cells that share the same nodes [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • Overview of application placement
        • Dynamic application placement
        • Troubleshoot application placement
        • Monitoring and tuning the application placement controller
      • Overview of IIOP and JMS request flow prioritization
        • Overview of JMS support in WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
      • Optimizing the database tier for performance monitoring
        • Configuring the database tier
        • Monitoring the database tier
      • Configuring the health controller
        • Enabling and disabling health management
        • Modifying the JVM heap size
        • Monitoring and tuning health management
        • Troubleshooting health management
      • Tuning the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise cell
  • Deploying and managing application editions without loss of service
    • Application edition manager concepts
      • Application edition manager
      • Application edition manager states
      • Application edition manager operational environment
      • Edition compatibility
    • Installing an edition
    • Activating an edition
      • Activating concurrent editions
    • Creating routing policies for application editions
    • Validating an edition
      • Canceling an application validation
    • Performing a rollout on an edition
      • Algorithm for performing a rollout
    • Performing a rollback on an edition
    • Deleting an installed edition
    • Troubleshooting application edition manager
      • Configuring timeout values for application edition manager on z/OS systems
      • Application edition manager frequently asked questions
  • Monitoring operations
    • Runtime operations overview
    • Creating and managing reports
    • Configuring the visualization data service
    • Task management
      • Managing runtime tasks
      • Task management service event logger
      • Defining e-mail notification
    • Troubleshooting extended administration
  • Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to work with other IBM products
    • Enabling the on demand router to work with IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
      • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
  • Reference
    • Release notes
    • Port number settings
    • Scripts
      • arfmController.py script
      • checkHmmLocation.jacl
      • checkPlacementLocation.jacl script
      • createDynamicCluster.jacl script
      • createodr.jacl script
      • coregroupsplit.py script [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • DataReaderWrapper class
      • deleteDynamicCluster.jacl script
      • deleteodr.jacl script
      • dumpOdrState.jacl script
      • dumpXdState.py script
      • encodePassword.sh|bat script
      • Health controller commands with the AdminConfig object
      • healthpolicy.py script
      • HmmControllerProcs.jacl
      • manageODC.py script [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • manageODR.py script [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • MirrorCell.bat|.sh script [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • odrDebug.py script [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • PlacementControllerProcs.jacl script
      • pluginMergebat|.sh script [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • serverQuiesce.py script [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • servicepolicy.py script
      • workclassoperations.py script
      • xd_APCconfig.jacl script
    • Administrative roles and privileges
    • Administrator scripting interfaces
      • Application edition management administrative tasks
      • Centralized installation manager administrative tasks
      • Dynamic cluster administrative tasks
      • Default work class administrative tasks
      • Health policy administrative tasks
      • Maintenance mode administrative tasks
      • Middleware application administrative tasks
      • Middleware descriptor administrative tasks
      • Middleware server creation administrative tasks
      • Middleware server management administrative tasks
      • Middleware server template administrative tasks
      • PHP server administrative tasks
      • Rules for ODR routing policy administrative tasks
      • Rules for ODR service policy administrative tasks
      • Ruleset administrative tasks [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Runtime operations user preferences administrative tasks [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
    • Custom properties
      • Application edition manager custom properties
      • Application placement custom properties
      • Core group cell-wide custom property
      • Autonomic request flow manager custom properties
      • Autonomic request flow manager advanced custom properties
      • Autonomic request flow manager cell-wide custom properties [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Dynamic cluster custom properties
      • Configuring cell-wide custom properties
      • Health controller custom properties [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Internal state reporting custom properties [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Service policy custom properties [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Middleware agent custom properties [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Middleware server custom properties variables [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Operational alerts custom properties [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Runtime operations custom properties [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • On demand router system and custom properties [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Runtime task custom properties
      • VMware custom properties [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
    • Logs
      • StrfTime format conversions [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • DeploymentTargetStatsHistoricCache
      • NodeStatsHistoricCache
      • ServerStatsCache
      • TCModuleStatsCache
      • TCModuleInstanceStatsCache
      • TierStatsCache
      • FineGrainedPowerConsumptionStatsCache
      • ServerPowerConsumptionStatsCache
    • Messages