WebSphere Extended Deployment, Version 6.0.x
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Visualizing the system

The extended manageability capabilities in WebSphere Extended Deployment can support large and complex administrative environments, streamlining administration for larger server farms through application versioning and management of multiple cells. The administrative console provides a visual representation of the inner workings of WebSphere Extended Deployment. You can see what types of decisions were made regarding deployment of applications and allocation of hardware. Benefits of the operation console include the ability to see where in a virtual resource pool applications are running to facilitate debugging and administration. Further, you can see that your machines are using a higher percentage of total capacity when WebSphere Extended Deployment's virtualization capability is used. Although Extended Deployment can manage multiple cells, the administrative console is an individual cell.

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 may 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 may view utilization and performance statistics at the resource pool level, machine level, WebSphere Application Server instance level, or application level. You can also configure the runtime topology to log data for reuse in external programs.

In addition to visualization, the operations console provides some administrative capability. Through this module, you can view the distribution of applications on servers, and other scenarios governed by runtime provisioning decisions. In addition to viewing the current state of the environment, you can take administrative action. For instance, you can override decisions made by the provisioner, or modify application priority through the administrative console.




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