With the web console, you can chart current and historical statistics.
This console provides some preconfigured charts for high-level overviews, and has a custom reports
page that you can use to build charts from the available statistics. You can use the charting
capabilities in the monitoring console of WebSphere eXtreme Scale to view the
overall performance of the data grids in your environment.
Before you begin
Install the web console as an optional feature when you run the installation
wizard.
Procedure
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Start the console server.
The
startConsoleServer.bat|sh script for starting the console server is in
the
wxs_install_root/bin directory of your installation.
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Log on to the console.
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From your web browser, go to
https://your.console.host:7443
, replacing
your.console.host
with the host name of the server onto which you installed the
console. If you had changed the port number, remember to update the port number in the URL.
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Log on to the console.
- User ID:
admin
- Password:
admin
The console welcome page is displayed.
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Edit the console configuration.
Click to review the console configuration. The console configuration includes information
such as:
Note: The administrator name is the name of the user with user ID
admin
.
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Establish and maintain connections to catalog servers that you want to monitor. Repeat the
following steps to add each catalog server to the configuration.
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Click .
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Add a new catalog server.
- Click the add icon () to register an existing catalog server.
- Provide information, such as the host name and listener port. See Planning for network ports
for more information about port configuration and defaults.
- Click OK.
- Verify that the catalog server has been added to the navigation tree.
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Group the catalog servers that you created into a catalog service domain.
You must create a catalog service domain when security is enabled in your catalog servers
because security settings are configured in the catalog service domain.
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Click page.
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Add a new catalog service domain.
- Click the add icon () to register a catalog service domain. Enter a name for the catalog service domain.
- After you create the catalog service domain, you can edit the properties. The catalog service
domain properties follow:
- Name
- Indicates the host name of the domain, as assigned by the administrator.
- Catalog servers
- Lists one or more catalog servers that belong to the selected domain. You can add the catalog
servers that you created in the previous step.
- Generator class
- Specifies the name of the class that implements the CredentialGenerator
interface. This class is used to get credentials for clients. If you specify a value in this field,
the value overrides the crendentialGeneratorClass property in the
client.properties file.
- Generator properties
- Specifies the properties for the CredentialGenerator implementation class.
The properties are set to the object with the setProperties(String) method. The
credentialGeneratorprops value is used only if the value of the credentialGeneratorClass property is
not null. If you specify a value in this field, the value overrides the
credentialGeneratorProps property in the client.properties
file.
- eXtreme Scale client properties path
- Specifies the path to the client properties file that you edited to include SSL properties. For
example, you might indicate the /ObjectGridProperties/sampleclient.properties
file. If you want to stop the console from trying to use SSL connections, you can delete the value
in this field. After you set the path, the console uses an unsecured connection.
- Click OK.
- Verify that the domain has been added to the navigation tree.
To view information about an existing catalog service domain, click the name of the catalog
service domain in the navigation tree on the page.
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View the connection status.
The Current domain field indicates the name of the catalog service
domain that is currently being used to display information in the web console. The connection status
displays next to the name of the catalog service domain.
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View statistics for the data grids and servers, or create a custom report.