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 the definition
of specific health criteria that you want your
WebSphere® Extended Deployment to
protect itself against.
A number of default health
policies are installed with WebSphere Extended Deployment.
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 Extended Deployment can
use to monitor the health of the system. See
Health management
and
Creating health policies
for more information.