Managing monitoring operations with shared services

You can manage monitoring, logging, operations, and links for shared service instances.

1. Click Patterns > Shared Services Instances.
2. Select the shared service instance that you want to monitor.
3. Click the Manage icon in the toolbar.
   The Instance Console displays. You can complete the following tasks from this console:

   • Click the Monitoring tab to view the health of the virtual machines in this instance.
   • Click the Logging tab to view and download the logs.
   • Click the Operations tab to view the operations in the instance. Use this tab to update operations associated with the shared service, including:

     AGENT

     To update trace settings, enter the trace string in the Trace string applied to the agent field. Enter the trace file name, such as trace.log, in the Trace File Name field. Enter the maximum file size in the Trace Max File Size field. Enter the maximum number of trace files in the Trace Max File Size field. Click the Append to trace file check box to append the trace file. Click Submit.

     AUTOSCALING

     To pause or resume auto scaling tasks, select or deselect the Pause check box and click Submit.

     EIFRECEIVER

     To start the event integration facility, click Submit. To stop the event integration facility, click Submit.

     MONITORING

     To connect or disconnect the operating system and workload monitoring agents to the monitoring service that is defined in the service registry, select or deselect the Connect check box. Click Submit. To start or stop monitoring of the WebSphere® Message Broker, click Submit.

     SSH

     To add or update the virtual machine SSH public key, type the public key in the Public Key field and click Submit. To remove the virtual machine SSH public keys, click Submit.

     Note: Some of the previous operations might not be available for all shared services.
   • Click the Links tab to view the links in the instance.