A runtime task is generated by a runtime component within WebSphere
Extended Deployment. It provides information from which you can accept, deny
or close the recommended action plan.
Before you begin
Before reviewing the following steps, click
the ShowMe icon on this page to familiarize yourself with task management.
Configure
your hosting environment. For more information, read about preparing the hosting
environment for dynamic operations.
About this task
Use runtime tasks to view and manage the recommendations that the
autonomic controllers are providing to improve the health and performance
of your environment. If you are running in supervised mode, you must accept,
deny, or close each runtime task. In automatic mode, the autonomic controllers
automatically take these actions.
Procedure
- From the administrative console, click Runtime
operations > Task management > Runtime tasks .
- Click the task ID link to view the task target objects and corresponding
monitors of a specific task. A task target object might be a server,
cluster, service policy, node, health policy, application, and so on. One
of these objects might be linked to configuration, performance or log monitor
views in the administrative console.
With a configuration
monitor, the placement controller for the TestNodeGroup
node group might recommend that an instance of the TestCluster dynamic
cluster start on the test4 node. The recommendation states that this is action
is required for the dynamic cluster to meet its configured minimum number
of running instances. You can click the link to the configuration panel for
the TestCluster dynamic cluster to view its settings and verify or change
the minimum number of running cluster instances.
For a performance monitor,
you can click a link to a chart with data that is specified in the monitor
and specific to the target object. For a log monitor, you can click the Runtime tab
of the target object Java virtual machine logs to investigate the displayed
logs.
- To view the action plan for the task, click the Task ID.
- To act on a specific task, select the corresponding task, and from
the action list select Accept, Deny or Close.
Accepting the task commits the previewed action plan. Closing the task
means that the task is successfully handled by the task management service
or is manually closed. Denying the task places the task in inactive status
if the task is not submitted again in the next batch of task submissions by
the originating component. You can also select multiple tasks with the same
actions. After you act on a task, the action list is unavailable for that
task.
- Click Submit.
Results
The Runtime Tasks panel refreshes, and performs the actions
that you selected to perform on each task.