Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. IBM Enterprise Workload Manager Overview -- 1.1 EWLM strategy -- 1.2 EWLM concepts -- 1.2.1 Domain manager -- 1.2.2 Managed server -- 1.2.3 Control Center -- 1.2.4 Domain policy -- 1.2.5 Instrumentation -- 1.3 EWLM supported platforms and applications -- Chapter 2. Installing and configuring EWLM -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 The ITSO test environment -- 2.3 Virtualization Engine suite -- 2.4 EWLM configuration in our ITSO environment -- 2.4.1 Configuring domain manager on Linux -- 2.4.2 Configuring managed servers on AIX and Windows -- 2.5 Installing the domain manager on other operating systems -- 2.5.1 Domain manager on AIX -- 2.5.2 Domain manager on Windows -- 2.5.3 Domain manager on i5/OS -- 2.6 Configuring managed servers on other operating systems -- 2.6.1 Managed server on i5/OS -- 2.6.2 Managed server on Solaris -- 2.7 Uninstalling -- Chapter 3. Enabling middleware for EWLM -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Pre-instrumentation tasks -- 3.3 Enabling DB2 Universal Database for ARM -- 3.4 Enabling WebSphere Application Server for ARM -- 3.5 Enabling IBM HTTP Server for ARM -- 3.5.1 WebSphere HTTP plug-in -- 3.5.2 Independent HTTP plug-ins -- 3.6 Verifying application enablement -- 3.7 Running Trade3 and Plants in the ITSO environment -- 3.7.1 Configure Trade3 JDBC driver -- Chapter 4. Administering EWLM -- 4.1 EWLM Control Center overview -- 4.2 Setup function of the Control Center -- 4.2.1 Classifying your workload -- 4.2.2 The Default and Sample policies -- 4.2.3 Building a domain policy -- 4.3 Manage -- 4.3.1 Service policies -- 4.3.2 Managed servers -- 4.4 Monitor -- 4.4.1 First-level reports -- 4.4.2 Details reports -- 4.4.3 Application and server topology reports.

4.4.4 Real time performance monitors -- 4.4.5 Summary table -- Chapter 5. The ITSO EWLM scenario -- 5.1 Overview of the process -- 5.1.1 Business scenario -- 5.1.2 Naming convention -- 5.2 Assessment -- 5.2.1 Defining the EWLM domain -- 5.2.2 Identifying all servers and middleware -- 5.2.3 Identifying all applications -- 5.3 Planning -- 5.3.1 Naming the domain policy -- 5.3.2 Defining the user information -- 5.3.3 Defining the directory and port configuration -- 5.4 Design -- 5.4.1 Identifying the transactions that request business functions -- 5.4.2 Identifying the processes that request business functions -- 5.4.3 Grouping service classes into a workload -- 5.4.4 Setting service class goals -- 5.5 Classifying the work -- 5.5.1 Defining classification filters for each transaction and process class -- 5.5.2 Creating the domain policy at the EWLM Control Center -- 5.6 Verification -- 5.6.1 Verifying transaction request classification filters -- 5.6.2 Verifying service class definition -- 5.6.3 Defining and implementing service policy -- 5.7 Reporting -- Chapter 6. Using a firewall and securing EWLM -- 6.1 Firewalls -- 6.1.1 General firewall overview -- 6.1.2 EWLM firewall support -- 6.1.3 Our EWLM firewall configurations -- 6.2 Security -- 6.2.1 Browser to Control Center -- 6.2.2 Control Center to domain manager -- 6.2.3 Domain manager to managed servers -- 6.2.4 EWLM processes -- 6.2.5 Instrumented applications -- Chapter 7. Using load balancing -- 7.1 EWLM and workload balancing overview -- 7.2 Configuring an EWLM load balancing setup -- 7.2.1 Managed server -- 7.2.2 Domain manager -- 7.2.3 Load balancer -- 7.3 Interfaces -- 7.3.1 Load balancer to domain manager (SASP communication) -- 7.3.2 Load balanced instances to domain manager (SASP communication) -- 7.3.3 Domain manager to load balanced instances (Platform APIs).

7.4 Load balancing algorithm -- 7.4.1 System-level identification -- 7.4.2 Application-level identification -- 7.5 Where to send the work (Weight calculations) -- 7.5.1 System-level balancing -- 7.5.2 Application-level balancing -- 7.6 SSL implementation -- 7.7 Monitoring the routing environment -- 7.7.1 Load balancer -- 7.7.2 Managed server -- 7.7.3 Domain manager -- Chapter 8. Troubleshooting and diagnostics -- 8.1 Problems with installing/uninstalling the EWLM code -- 8.2 Problems with the domain manager -- 8.2.1 Configuration -- 8.2.2 Operations -- 8.3 Problems with WebSphere Application Server -- 8.3.1 Starting -- 8.4 Problems with the managed servers -- 8.5 Problems enabling ARM on middleware applications -- 8.6 Problems using the EWLM Control Center -- 8.6.1 General use -- 8.6.2 Manage options -- 8.6.3 Monitor options -- 8.6.4 Domain policies -- 8.7 Defining security and firewall -- 8.8 Diagnostic information -- 8.8.1 EWLM Control Center -- 8.8.2 Commands -- 8.8.3 Logs -- 8.8.4 Dumps -- 8.8.5 Traces -- 8.9 Database backup and recovery -- Chapter 9. Initial performance considerations -- 9.1 Domain manager resource description -- 9.1.1 Sizing factors -- 9.2 Performance tests -- 9.2.1 Environment -- 9.2.2 Domain manager on Windows -- 9.2.3 Windows test methodology -- 9.2.4 General sizing recommendations on Windows -- 9.2.5 Domain manager on AIX -- 9.2.6 AIX test methodology -- 9.2.7 General sizing recommendations on AIX -- 9.2.8 Domain manager on i5/OS -- 9.2.9 i5/OS test methodology -- 9.2.10 General sizing recommendations on i5/OS -- 9.3 Additional considerations -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.