Service policy collection

You can create and modify service policies according to user-defined business goals. Service policies are the main building blocks of an operational policy. An operational policy categorizes work and consists of a service policy with transaction class affiliations. The on demand router reads the operational policy to determine the proper work flow according to available server resources.

To view this administrative console page, click Operational Policies > Service Policies.

To create, modify, or remove service policies and transaction classes, you must have administrator or configurator administrative privileges.

Name

Indicates the name of a service policy, which must be unique among all service policies.

The name field is required and is a user defined field. The name field cannot contain the following characters: \ / , : ; " * ? < > | = + & % ' #. The name defined must be unique among service policies and cannot begin with a . or a space. A space does not generate an error, but leading and trailing spaces are automatically deleted. Create meaningful service policy names that are used consistently. For example, PLATINUM, GOLD, SILVER, and BRONZE are good service policy names.

Importance

The importance attribute can either be a blank field, which indicates a discretionary goal, or it can contain a specific value, such as highest, high, medium, low, or lowest. A specific value for this attribute indicates a time goal, which is further discussed in the goal attribute.

Goal

The goal can be one of the following types:

  • Average response time Goals carry a specific time goal.
  • Percentile response time Goals are the percentage of requests handled in a specific period of time.
  • Discretionary Goals do not contain a specific time value and consist of lower priority work.
  • Completion time Specifies the maximum amount of time (minutes) that is acceptable for a job to complete and still maintain the level of service that the service policy implies.
Description

The description is an optional field that allows a further description of the service policy.




WebSphere Extended Deployment information center (online)

Related information
Service policy overview
Service policy settings
Define service policy general properties
Define service policy goal properties
Define service policy memberships
Service policy topology
Transaction class collection
Define transaction class general properties
Transaction class move

sc_collection