Monitoring policy settings
Use this page to view or change settings that control how the node
agent monitors and restarts a process.
To view this administrative console page, click Servers > Application
Servers > server_name > Process Definition > process
type > Monitoring Policy.
Configuration tab
- Maximum Startup Attempts
- Specifies the maximum number of times to attempt to start the
application server before giving up.
- Ping Interval
- Specifies, in seconds, the frequency of communication attempts
between the parent process, such as the node agent, and the process it has
spawned, such as an application server. Adjust this value based on your requirements
for restarting failed servers. Decreasing the value detects failures sooner.
Increasing the value of this property reduces the frequency of pings, thereby
reducing system overhead.
Data type |
Integer |
Range |
Set the value greater than or equal to 0 (zero) and less than 2147483.
If you specify a value greater than 2147483, the application server acts as
though you set the value to 0. When you specify a value of 0, no checking
is performed. |
Default |
60 seconds |
Adding these two properties does not completely eliminate
DNS lookups from within WebSphere Application Server processes.
- Ping Timeout
- When a parent process is spawning a child process, such as when
a process manager spawns a server, the parent process pings the child process
to see whether the child was spawned successfully. This value specifies the
number of seconds that the parent process should wait (after pinging the
child process) before assuming that the child process failed.
Data type |
Integer |
Units |
Seconds |
Range |
Set the value greater than or equal to 0(zero) and less than 2147483.
If you specify a value greater than 2147483, the application server acts as
though you set the value to 0. |
- Automatic Restart
- Specifies whether the process should restart automatically if it
fails. This setting only applies if the application server shuts down abnormally.
The default is to restart the process automatically.
This setting does not affect the Node Restart State setting. The two settings
are mutually exclusive.
Data type |
Boolean |
Default |
true |
- Node Restart State
- Specifies the desired state for the process after the node completely
shuts down and restarts. If this property is set to STOPPED, when the node
agent is restarted, the associated application servers that are still running
are not stopped.
This setting does not affect what you specified for the Automatic Restart
setting. The two settings are mutually exclusive.
Data type |
String |
Default |
STOPPED |
Range |
Valid values are STOPPED, RUNNING, or PREVIOUS. If you want the process
to return to its current state after the node restarts, use PREVIOUS. |

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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT
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