Monitoring classic virtual system instances

You can monitor classic virtual system instances that are deployed in the cloud.

Before you begin

Note: The Virtual System Patterns (Classic) is not supported in IBM Cloud Pak System Software version 2.3.5 and later.

You must have the Workload resources administration with full permissions to complete this task.

If you want to monitor classic virtual system instances, you must deploy more shared services. These steps apply to classic virtual system instances that were:
  • Deployed from classic virtual system patterns.
  • Promoted from classic virtual system patterns and still use hypervisor images.
  • Deployed from virtual system patterns.
For these classic virtual system instances:
  • If you want to monitor a classic virtual system instance that contains a WebSphere® Application Server hypervisor image, ensure that the System Monitoring for WebSphere Application server shared service is deployed.
  • If you want to monitor an IBM® HTTP Server, ensure that the System Monitoring for HTTP Servers shared service is deployed.
You can deploy the System Monitoring for WebSphere Application server shared service or the System Monitoring for HTTP Servers shared service in a cloud group to enable the collection of performance and availability data from applications that are running on classic virtual system instances within that cloud group that use WebSphere Application Server or IBM HTTP Server hypervisor images or software components. The shared service uses a monitoring agent and data collector to collect the data from these applications. For steps to deploy a shared service, see the Related tasks section.

About this task

The System Monitoring shared service provides the monitoring infrastructure that allows monitoring agents to collect performance and availability information. You can use this information to troubleshoot your system and make business decisions about your hardware and service usage.

You can extend the System Monitoring shared service to collect performance and availability data about middleware in a cloud group. Monitoring services for middleware are separate shared services that are deployed in addition to the base System Monitoring shared service.

Procedure

  1. Click Patterns > Virtual System Instances (Classic).
  2. Select the instance that you want to monitor.
  3. Expand the Virtual machines section.
  4. Click the link next to Monitor to start the System Monitoring Portal server and view the monitoring metrics.