Configuring and reconfiguring the data collector with the advanced utilities
To set additional configuration options, you can use the advanced configuration utilities (interactive or silent) to configure the data collector instead of the standard utility. You can also use advanced utilities to reconfigure the data collector when it is already configured. Also, you need to use the advanced configuration utility to configure monitoring for WebSphere® Portal Server instances.
Before you begin
If you installed the WebSphere Application
Server or WebSphere Portal
Server using a non-root user account, before you run the configuration
utilities, verify that the non-root user has read and write privileges
to the following agent directories in install_dir/yndchome/7.3.0.11.0,
where install_dir is
the installation directory of the WebSphere Applications agent:- data
- bin
- runtime
- logs
If you plan to monitor application servers within a cluster, verify that the cluster does not contain a white space.
About this task
When the data collector is already configured to monitor
an application server instance, you can reconfigure it. You might
need to reconfigure the data collector in the following cases:
- You want to change the name of the server in the monitoring user interface, known as the server alias.
- The administrator password for the application server console is changed.
- You initially configured the data collector without enabling collection of diagnostic data, and then want to view diagnostic data. (The simple configuration process does enable collection of diagnostic data, so this situation arises if you used the interactive or silent configuration utility).
If you want to use only resource monitoring, you might need to use the advanced interactive or silent configuration utility.
Procedure
- Run the configuration and reconfiguration utilities from the dc_home/bin directory.
- If the data collector is configured within the application server instance, use the interactive reconfiguration script to reconfigure it. See Reconfiguring the data collector interactively.
- If the data collector is configured for resource monitoring, the reconfiguration script does not list the application server instance; in this case, use the interactive configuration script. See Configuring the data collector interactively.
- For silent reconfiguration, always use the same procedure as for silent configuration. See Configuring or reconfiguring the data collector in silent mode.