Configure the WebSphere® Infrastructure Manager agent to
monitor the performance of WebSphere Deployment
Manager and Node Agent.
About this task
The WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent is
a multiple instance agent. You must create the first instance and
start the agent manually.
Procedure
- To configure the agent, run the following command.
install_dir/bin/wim-agent.sh config instance_name
Where
instance_name is
the name you want to give to the instance, and
install_dir is the
installation directory of
WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent.
The default installation directory is
/opt/ibm/apm/agent.
- When prompted to Edit 'Monitoring Agent for WebSphere
Infrastructure Manager' settings, enter 1 to
continue.
- When prompted for Java home, specify the
directory where Java™ is installed.
The default value is /opt/ibm/apm/agent/JRE/lx8266/jre.
- When prompted for DMGR Profile Home, specify
the home directory of the Deployment Manager profile.
The
default directory is /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01.
- When prompted for JMX user ID, specify the
user ID that is used to connect to the MBean server.
- When prompted to Enter JMX password, specify
the password for the user.
- When prompted to Re-type JMX password, enter
the password again.
- To start the agent, run the following command.
install_dir/bin/wim-agent.sh start instance_name
Results
You created a WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent instance
and started the monitoring agent to begin collecting data samples
for resource monitoring.