Starting and stopping the monitoring agent in virtual applications

You can manually stop the monitoring agent from collecting data, for example in virtual application environments that are still in development. Then, when you are ready to start collecting data again, you can manually restart the agent.

Before you begin

You must be assigned the Workload resources administration role with permission to Manage workload resources (Full permission).

Procedure

  1. Click Patterns > Virtual Application Instances. If you are on 2.3.3.3, click Patterns > Manage > Virtual Application Instances.
  2. In the list of instances, click the virtual application on which WebSphere® MQ is deployed. Detailed information about the virtual application is displayed in the main pane.
  3. Click the Manage icon.
    The Instance Console window opens with the Monitoring tab selected.
  4. Select the Operations tab.
  5. Select the entry that represents WebSphere MQ.
  6. Click Monitoring of WebSphere MQ to expand.
  7. Do one of the following steps:
    • To start the monitoring agent, expand Start, and then click Submit.
    • To stop the monitoring agent, expand Stop, and then click Submit.