Enabling PMI using the administrative console

When PMI service is enabled, the monitoring of individual components can be enabled or disabled dynamically.

1. Open the administrative console.
2. Click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name.
3. Click the Configuration tab.
4. Click Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) under Performance.
5. Select the Enable Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) check box.
6. Optionally, select the check box Use sequential counter updates to enable precise statistic update.
7. Optionally, choose a statistic set that needs to be monitored under Currently Monitored Statistic Set.
8. Optionally, click on Custom to selectively enable or disable statistics. Choose a component from the tree and enable or disable statistics on the opposite table. Go back to the main PMI configuration page by clicking the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure link.
9. Click Apply or OK.
10. Click Save.
11. Restart the application server.
    The changes you make will not take effect until you restart the application server.

    Note: When Intelligent Management is enabled, the application server does not let you disable PMI counters that the Intelligent Management requires. For information about the list of PMI counters that cannot be disabled when Intelligent Management is enabled, see Enabling PMI data collection