WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x     Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Isolating performance for specific types of requests

This topic describes how to enable request metrics filters.

Why and when to perform this task

Request metrics compares each incoming request to a set of known filters, but you need to enable these filters.

Steps for this task

  1. Open the administrative console.
  2. Click Monitoring and Tuning > Request metrics in the administrative console navigation tree.
  3. Click Filters.
  4. Click filter type.
  5. Select the check box in the Enable field under the Configuration tab.
  6. Click Apply or OK.
  7. Click Save. You can enable or disable a filter group. If the group is enabled, you can enable or disable individual filters.

Result

The request metrics filters are enabled according to your configuration. For example, if you enabled source IP, only requests whose source IP matches the one specified in the filter will be instrumented.
Note: Filters will only be checked for edge transactions. An edge transaction is the transaction that first enters an instrumented system. For example, if a servlet calls an EJB, the servlet is the edge transaction, assuming it is not instrumented at the web server plugin, and the URI and SOURCE_IP filters will be checked for the servlet request. However, when the request comes to EJB container, EJB filter will not be checked because it is no longer an edge transaction.

What to do next

If logging time is spent in the Web server, refer to Regenerating the Web server plug-in configuration file.



Sub-topics
Adding and removing request metrics filters
Request metrics filters
Request metrics filter settings
Filter values collection
Filter values settings

Related tasks
Getting performance data from request metrics

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