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