WebSphere Extended Deployment, Version 6.0.x
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Extended manageability overview

With WebSphere Extended Deployment, you can manage complex system operations with real time, meaningful visualization tools. Gradually controlled implementation of autonomic capabilities helps you to reduce the cost of managing your resources.

Visualization

Visualization in WebSphere Extended Deployment consists of both transient runtime configuration information, as well as performance statistics. Each of these are provided for various perspectives, or levels. For instance, you can view the current machine membership in a resource pool, the current WebSphere Application Server installations on a given machine, or the current application installations in a given WebSphere Application Server instance. Similarly, you can view utilization and performance statistics at the resource pool level, machine level, WebSphere Application Server instance level, or application level.

Manageability function

In addition to visualization, the runtime operations center will provide some administrative capability. Through this module you are given a view of the actual distribution of applications on servers, as well as other scenarios governed by runtime provisioning decisions. So, in addition to viewing the current state of the environment, an administrator is allowed to take some administrative action. For instance, an administrator will be able to override decisions made by the provisioner or modify application priority through the operations console.

Customized charting and topology visualization

To realize the benefits of using a virtualized environment like the one provided in WebSphere Extended Deployment, it is important to know how your applications are performing. WebSphere Extended Deployment gives you a visual perspective of this performance. Specifically, statistics such as response time, traffic, and throughput might interest both administrators and application owners. You can choose different options to create various charts that show precise data. You can also configure the visualization data service to create logs of this data.

Node groups and dynamic clusters

Extended manageability in WebSphere Extended Deployment also supports node groups and dynamic clusters. A node group is a user defined collection of nodes that share a common property. A dynamic cluster is a container construct which extends its static counterpart, the static cluster, in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Dynamic clusters are associated with a single node group. It is an application deployment target that is expandable and contractible as needed by the WebSphere Dynamic Operations environment. Also, it can cross the boundaries of nodes within a node group.




Related concepts
Visualizing the system
Related tasks
Monitoring operations
Configuring the visualization data service
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