Configuring or reconfiguring the data collector with full configuration utilities

Use the full configuration utilities (interactive or silent) to configure the data collector for the WebSphere Applications agent. You can also use full configuration utilities to reconfigure the data collector when it is already configured. Also, you need to use the full configuration utility to configure monitoring for WebSphere Portal Server instances.

Before you begin

Make sure that the user access requirements are met in your environment. For instructions, see Checking user access requirements.

Restriction:

To monitor WebSphere Application Server Liberty, make sure that the <featureManager> section is defined in the Liberty server.xml file. Otherwise, data collector configuration cannot add required features to load to the server.xml file for monitoring purpose. Sometimes, the required features are not defined in the <featureManager> section of server.xml, but in an external feature.xml file. Then, the include element is used in server.xml to include the feature information from the external xml file. In this case, you must remove the include element from server.xml and then copy the features in the external xml file to the <featureManager> section of server.xml.

About this task

The configuration and reconfiguration utilities can be found in the following directories:

• Windows: install_dir\dchome\7.3.0.14.09\bin
• Linux and UNIX: install_dir/yndchome/7.3.0.14.09/bin

Remember:

Diagnostics and transaction tracking data are not yet supported by Monitoring. Do NOT enable diagnostics data or transaction tracking for the data collector.

Procedure

• The configuration utility is named config. You might need to configure the data collector with the full configuration utility in the following cases:

  • You want to configure the data collector for the first time after the WebSphere Applications agent is installed.
  • The simpleconfig configuration utility fails.
  • You want to configure monitoring for WebSphere Portal Server instances.
  • You want to specify a server alias that is displayed in the monitoring user interface during the data collector configuration.
  • You want to have more control of what data to be collected. For example, you want to use resource monitoring only and disable diagnostics data and transaction tracking.
  • You do not want to configure all application servers within the same profile at one time.
  • The data collector is not configured within the application server and you want to reconfigure it.

  For information about the interactive full configuration utility, see Configuring the data collector interactively.

• The reconfiguration utility is named reconfig. You might need to reconfigure the data collector in the following cases:

  • You want to reconfigure the data collector after it is configured either interactively or silently. For information about interactive reconfiguration utility, see Reconfiguring the data collector interactively.

  • For silent configuration, see Configuring the data collector in silent mode.

• Configuring the data collector interactively
• Reconfiguring the data collector interactively
• Configuring the data collector in silent mode
• Properties file for silent configuration of data collector
• Changing the host name used in MSN
• Changing OpenTracing sampling configuration