Use this page to define the specific behavior of the health policy.
To view this administrative console page, click Operational policies > Health policies > New.
Privileges for health policies differ, depending on the user’s administrative role. Roles include monitor, operator, configurator, and administrator. If you are a user with either a monitor or an operator role, you can only view health policy information. If you are a user with either a configurator or an administrator role, you have all configuration privileges for health policies.
Specifies properties that are specific to the health condition.
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Maximum age | This field is available for the age-based policy. The age-based condition policy restarts the associated members when their age reaches the maximum age. Acceptable values are positive whole numbers in days or hours between 1 hour and 365 days. To enter a value like 1.2 days, use 36 hours, because decimal numbers are not supported. |
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Timed out requests | The excessive memory usage condition policy restarts members when the memory usage exceeds a percentage of your heap size over time. The total memory used percentage is used with the time over memory threshold value to determine when to restart members. Acceptable values for this field are whole numbers between 1 and 99. |
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Response time | This field is available for the excessive response time condition policy. The excessive response time condition policy restarts members when the average number of responses completed exceeds a given period. Acceptable values for this field are between 1 millisecond and 60 minutes. |
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JVM heap size | The excessive memory usage condition policy restarts members when the memory usage exceeds a percentage of your heap size over time. The total memory used percentage is used with the time over memory threshold value to determine when to restart members. Acceptable values for this field are whole numbers between 1 and 99. |
Offending time period | This field is available for the excessive memory usage condition policy. The excessive memory usage condition policy restarts members when the memory usage exceeds a percentage of your heap size over time. Acceptable values for this field are between 1 second and 60 minutes. |
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Detection level | You can choose from the following detection
levels. For each level a trade-off exists between the speed and accuracy
of detecting suspected memory leaks.
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Detection level |
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Total requests | The workload condition policy restarts members when a certain user-defined number of requests are serviced. A request value must be a whole number greater than 1000. |
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Run reaction plan when | Specifies a subexpression that represents the metrics that you are evaluating in your custom condition. |
Specifies how WebSphere Extended Deployment behaves when a defined health condition needs improving.
Specifies the reaction mode that defines the behavior of the health policy. The reaction mode can be Supervised or Automatic.
You can define a specific set of actions to occur when the health condition breaches. These actions can be the existing default actions, or you can define custom actions to run an executable file.
A list of actions displays in the order that they are run when the health condition breaches. To add an action, click Add Action.... You can choose an existing default health policy action, a custom action that you have created, or you can create a new custom action.
To remove a step, select the step and click Remove Action. To change the order of your steps, select one step to move and click Move Up or Move Down.