The Scaling Controller feature manages Liberty clusters by starting and stopping servers based on Scaling Policy.

Enabling this feature

To enable the Scaling Controller 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>scalingController-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

Liberty API packages provided by this feature

  • com.ibm.websphere.scaling.manager.stack

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-21.0

  • JavaSE-22.0

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.scalingController-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

SPI packages provided by this feature

  • com.ibm.wsspi.scaling.action.consumer

  • com.ibm.wsspi.scaling.action.controller