Configuring or reconfiguring the data collector with full configuration utilities

To set additional configuration options, you can use the full configuration utilities (interactive or silent) to configure the data collector instead of the simple configuration utility. 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.

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