Health management monitoring is enabled by default. You
can enable or disable health management monitoring.
Before you begin
The health monitor uses health policies. A health policy is
a combination of health conditions and actions. Health conditions
define triggers from which the system can protect itself, for example,
a memory leak. Health actions are the specific steps that the system
takes when a health condition is triggered. For example, with a memory
leak condition, you might choose to restart the associated servers
as the health action.A number of default health policies
are installed with
WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise.
In addition to these broad default health policies, you can define
more specific policies that apply for your environment. For more information
about the default health policies, see
Health management.
For more information about creating a health policy, see
Creating health policies.
Depending on your administrative
role, you are allowed specific privileges when configuring the autonomic
managers. The following list shows the administrative roles and privileges
for configuring the autonomic managers:
Monitor: Can
view the information.
Operator: Can view the information
on the configuration tab. Can change the settings on the runtime tab.
Configurator:
Can change the configuration but not the runtime settings.
Administrator:
Has all privileges.
About this task
Health management is enabled by default. Use health management
to protect your system from many user application malfunctions, including
memory leaks and application hangs. Health management uses health
policies to define a set of conditions that
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise can use to monitor the
health of the system. See
Health management and
Creating health policies for more information.
Procedure
- In the administrative console, click .
- Enable or disable health monitoring. When the
check box is selected, the environment is monitored for health conditions.
When the check box is not selected, health monitoring is turned off.
Results
When enabled, the system is monitored for conditions that
are defined by your health policies.
What to do next
Manage other health monitoring settings. See
Monitoring and tuning health management and
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