Product overview
What is new in this release
z/OS considerations
Virtualization and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Configuring AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 on POWER5 and POWER6 (Micro-Partitioning)
[Version 6.1.1 and later]
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise in a micro-partitioned environment
[Version 6.1.1 and later]
Supported server virtualization environments
Dynamic operations
Overview of dynamic operations
Overview of request flow prioritization
Dynamic operations environment
Components of dynamic operations
Operational policies
Extended manageability
Supported middleware server types
Middleware nodes and servers
Middleware agent
Learn more about WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Migrating the product
Distributed operating systems
XDUpgrade command
Migrating large topologies of external WebSphere application servers
Migration toolkit
z/OS
Migrating products from Version 6.1.0.5 to Version 6.1.1
Migrating to a Version 6.1.1 and Version 7.0.x cell
Migrating the deployment manager for z/OS
Migrating an application server node for z/OS
XDUpgrade command
Migrating the WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid parallel job manager
Installing and customizing the product
Hardware and software requirements
Distributed operating systems
Virtual Enterprise topology
Installation scenarios
Installing in a WebSphere Application Server environment
Installing in other server environments
Installing the product
Installing the product silently
Using the centralized installation manager repository tool to add products
Installation parameters
Using the Installation Factory plug-in to create and install customized packages
Build definition file
Creating a build definition file and generating a CIP
Installing a CIP
Installing a CIP to apply maintenance to an existing product installation
Uninstalling CIP updates from an existing product installation
Creating a build definition file and generating an IIP
Installing an IIP
Modifying an existing build definition file for an IIP
Silently installing a CIP or an IIP
Creating and augmenting profiles
Using the graphical user interface to create profiles
Creating profiles for multiple products
Creating profiles for use with other IBM products
Using the graphical user interface to augment profiles
Augmenting profiles with multiple product augment templates
manageprofiles command
Non-root profile creation and augmentation
Using the Update Installer to install maintenance packages
Updating the middleware agent
Uninstalling the product
z/OS
Installing the WebSphere Customization Tools
Generating customization definitions
Uploading and running customized jobs
Enabling 64–bit mode on all z/OS servers
Preparing the hosting environment for dynamic operations
Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Advanced configuration for VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Federating middleware nodes
Creating and configuring ODRs
Creating ODRs
Configuring ODRs
Creating a cluster of on demand routers
Configuring a Web server as a trusted proxy server
Enabling cell affinity
Cell affinity function
Defining generic server clusters for remote ODR cells
Configuring cell affinity in a multi-tiered environment
Configuring the multi-cluster routing policy
Generating a plugin-cfg.xml
Cell affinity when an ODR fails
Using the binary trace facility
Options for filtering information in the trace-cfg.xml
Tuning the on demand router (ODR)
Modifying the JVM heap size for the on demand router
Tuning ODR persistent requests
Tuning ODR maximum connections
Configuring custom logs
Configuring SSL offload for all HTTPS traffic
Configuring SSL offload for partial HTTPS traffic
Integrating the SIP on demand router with Load Balancer
Defining routing policies for generic server clusters
Configuring rewriting rules
Defining service policies for generic server clusters
Configuring communication between core groups that are in the same cell
BBSON bulletin board
Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise for cross-cell communication
Enabling communication between cells that have security enabled
Configuring an on demand router to dynamically update the Web server plug-in configuration
Generating the plug-in configuration in a high availability environment
Controlling the generation of the plugin-cfg.xml file
Routing requests directly from a Web server to a back-end application server
Configuring passive HTTP session affinity in the on demand router
Configuring the on demand router for multi-cluster failover and load balancing routing
Adding middleware servers to configurations
Adding complete life-cycle middleware servers
PHP servers and dynamic clusters
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
Configuring JMX security for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2.1 servers
Adding assisted life-cycle middleware servers
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
Apache Tomcat servers
BEA WebLogic servers
JBoss servers
Custom HTTP servers
External WebSphere application servers
Managing middleware servers
Configuring middleware descriptors
Creating middleware server templates
Configuring middleware server operations
Viewing middleware server configuration files
Configuring the external log viewing service
Creating dynamic clusters
Dynamic clusters
Static clusters versus dynamic clusters
Dynamic cluster isolation
Configuring application lazy start
Application lazy start
The lazy start controller
Configuring vertical stacking
Determining the stacking number for a dynamic cluster
Configuring a dynamic cluster with homogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
Configuring a dynamic cluster with heterogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
HTTP session rebalancing
Deploying applications with defined service levels
Deploying enterprise applications
Deploying unmanaged Web applications
Deploying PHP applications
Deploying WebSphere Application Server Community Edition applications
Routing and service policies
Defining a service policy
Subexpression builder operands for routing and service policies
SOAP operands
SIP operands
IIOP operands
HTTP operands
Service policy rules
Rules support
Routing policy action types
Overview of work classes
Work class types
Request classification operators
Rule-based request classification
Managing the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment
Setting maintenance mode
Routing to servers that are in maintenance mode
Manually replacing SSL certificates for the middleware agent
Configuring health management
Health management
Excessive request timeout health policy target timeout value
Creating health policies
Creating health policy custom actions
Using the centralized installation manager to manage your environment
Centralized installation manager overview
Installing packages
Downloading the Update Installer for WebSphere Software
Downloading package descriptors and the associated binary files
Installing interim fixes
Installing refresh packs or fix packs
Manually adding files to the repository
Downloading and installing WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
Installing sudo on target AIX operating systems to apply maintenance as a non-root user
Uninstalling packages
Monitoring requests
Managing installation targets
Using Remote Execution and Access to access remote installation targets
Installing the Secure Shell public key to access installation targets
Running Cygwin as root to use SSH on target Windows operating systems
Updating Secure Shell public key installation records
Routing requests to nodes that are not running WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Routing requests to external nodes with generic server clusters
Enabling external monitoring with the remote agent
Multiple tiers of processing
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise topology terminology
Configuring speed factors in multiple tier configurations
Overriding work factor estimates
Configuring node computing power
Configuring a high availability deployment manager environment
Adding the signer certificate from the secondary deployment manager to the local trust store
The high availability deployment manager
xd_hadmgrAdd command
xd_hadmgrRemove command
Configuring a checkpoint
The repository checkpoint and restore function
Restoring a checkpoint
Configuring the autonomic managers
Configuring the autonomic request flow manager
Configuring emergency throttle
Memory overload protection
Configuring memory overload protection
Trace settings for autonomic request flow manager and application placement
Request prioritization problems
Configuring dynamic application placement
Overview of application placement
Dynamic application placement
Configuring application placement for cells that share the same nodes
Monitoring and tuning the application placement controller
Application placement frequently asked questions
Application placement controller logs
Overview of IIOP and JMS request flow prioritization
Overview of JMS support in WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
Optimizing the database tier for performance monitoring
Configuring the database tier
Monitoring the database tier
Configuring the health controller
Enabling and disabling health management
Modifying the JVM heap size
Monitoring and tuning health management
Troubleshooting health management
Tuning the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise cell
Deploying and managing application editions without loss of service
Application edition manager concepts
Application edition manager
Application edition manager states
Application edition manager operational environment
Edition compatibility
Installing an edition
Activating an edition
Activating concurrent editions
Creating routing policies for application editions
Validating an edition
Canceling an application validation
Performing a rollout on an edition
Algorithm for performing a rollout
Performing a rollback on an edition
Deleting an installed edition
Troubleshooting application edition manager
Configuring timeout values for application edition manager on z/OS systems
Application edition manager frequently asked questions
Monitoring operations
Runtime operations overview
Creating and managing reports
Configuring the visualization data service
Task management
Managing runtime tasks
Task management service event logger
Defining e-mail notification
Troubleshooting extended administration
Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to work with other IBM products
Enabling the on demand router to work with IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
Reference
Release notes
Port number settings
Scripts
arfmController.py script
checkHmmLocation.jacl
checkPlacementLocation.jacl script
createDynamicCluster.jacl script
createodr.jacl script
coregroupsplit.py script
DataReaderWrapper class
deleteDynamicCluster.jacl script
deleteodr.jacl script
dumpOdrState.jacl script
dumpXdState.py script
encodePassword.sh|bat script
Health controller commands with the AdminConfig object
healthpolicy.py script
HmmControllerProcs.jacl
manageODC.py script
manageODR.py script
MirrorCell.bat|.sh script
odrDebug.py script
PlacementControllerProcs.jacl script
pluginMergebat|.sh script
serverQuiesce.py script
servicepolicy.py script
useWVEBB.py
workclassoperations.py script
xd_APCconfig.jacl script
Administrative roles and privileges
Administrator scripting interfaces
Application edition management administrative tasks
Centralized installation manager administrative tasks
Dynamic cluster administrative tasks
Default work class administrative tasks
Health policy administrative tasks
Maintenance mode administrative tasks
Middleware application administrative tasks
Middleware descriptor administrative tasks
Middleware server creation administrative tasks
Middleware server management administrative tasks
Middleware server template administrative tasks
PHP server administrative tasks
Rules for ODR routing policy administrative tasks
Rules for ODR service policy administrative tasks
Ruleset administrative tasks
Runtime operations user preferences administrative tasks
Custom properties
Application edition manager custom properties
Application placement custom properties
Core group custom properties
Autonomic request flow manager custom properties
Autonomic request flow manager advanced custom properties
Dynamic cluster custom properties
Health controller custom properties
Internal state reporting custom properties
Service policy custom properties
Middleware agent custom properties
Middleware server custom properties and variables
Operational alerts custom properties
Runtime operations custom properties
On demand router system and custom properties
Runtime task custom properties
Binary trace facility custom properties
VMware custom properties
Logs
StrfTime format conversions
DeploymentTargetStatsHistoricCache
NodeStatsHistoricCache
ServerStatsCache
TCModuleStatsCache
TCModuleInstanceStatsCache
TierStatsCache
FineGrainedPowerConsumptionStatsCache
ServerPowerConsumptionStatsCache
Trace output information
[Version 6.1.1 and later]
Administrative console help
Messages