Preventing inadvertent use of trace active

This scenario describes how you can use the WebSphere® Message Broker Monitoring Agent to prevent the trace active feature from being used inadvertently and adversely affecting broker performance.

After you have configured the WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring Agent, start the agent so that the necessary statistics can be gathered, and then perform the following steps:

  1. Define a situation for the following workspaces that verifies that the Trace Level and User Trace Level attribute values are not none. An alert is triggered whenever tracing is active so that you can determine whether the tracing activity is valid.
    • WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 or later:
      • Broker Status
      • Execution Group Status
      • Message Flow Status
  2. Deploy the situation to the broker managed systems where you want to detect active trace.