Intelligent Management: overview

What is Intelligent Management?

Intelligent Management provides application server virtualization, resource management, and a host of advanced operational facilities, such as performance visualization, health management, and application edition management. Use Intelligent Management to enhance operational efficiency by deploying dynamic operations, servicing high-volume transactional workloads with linear scalability and high availability, and by managing large scale, continuously available application server environments.

Application edition management provides the ability to roll out new versions of applications without experiencing downtime for a maintenance window. Health management offers you the ability to specify conditions to monitor and corrective actions to take when the conditions are observed. Both of these capabilities improve the resiliency and availability of applications in an Intelligent Management environment. Dynamic workload management allows you to automatically change the application footprint during runtime, based on incoming application demand. As a result, multiple applications sharing a common resource pool can provision the average usage, and can share a set of resources to handle peak usage scenarios.

Intelligent Management does not change any Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment binary files. Specific Intelligent Management features can only be used with specific applications; any limitations depend on the application design, performance, and quality of service requirement. Most limitations can be overcome by tuning your topology or configuring your applications.

Intelligent Management depends on some Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) metrics. When Intelligent Management is enabled, the application server does not let you disable PMI metrics that Intelligent Management requires. However, you can add additional counters beyond the Intelligent Management PMI defaults.

Restriction:

• The product does not support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) features on the z/OS® operating system.
• Federating middleware agents from distributed platforms into a z/OS deployment manager is not supported.