Intelligent Management: autonomic controllers custom properties

You can use custom properties to configure the autonomic controllers to always start on a particular node or deployment manager process.

To force a controller to always start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the HAManagedItemPreferred_component_variable custom property on the specific deployment manager or node.

Avoid Trouble: When the property HAManagedItemPreferred_apc=true is set and enabled for a process, that process must be started before the start of any other Java™ process in the cell.

Complete the following steps to set the custom property on a node agent process.

In the administrative console, click System administration > Nodes > node_name > Node agent > Java and process management > Process definition > Java virtual machine > Custom properties.
Enter the name of the custom property.
Set the value of the custom property to true.
Click Apply, and save your changes.

Complete the following steps to set the custom property on a deployment manager process.

In the administrative console, click System administration > Deployment manager > Java and process management > Process definition > Java virtual machine > Custom properties.
Enter the name of the custom property.
Set the value of the custom property to true.
Click Apply, and save your changes.

After you set each custom property, perform these steps:

Restart the current process in which the controller is running. Skip this step if the custom property is used in the environment for the first time.
Restart the Java virtual machine where the custom property was set.

Examples

To configure the application placement controller to start on a specific deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_apc=true

If the cell is started after the custom property is set, the application placement controller starts at the specified deployment manager or node agent process. If the cell is already active when the custom property is set, the controller starts with the specified process only after the cell is stopped and started again.

When you use elasticity mode in an environment in which multi-cell performance management is configured, you must configure certain controllers to start on the deployment managers of the center cell and the point cells.

Note: When you are using elasticity mode, you must set the HAManagedItemPreferred_apc custom property on the deployment manager or node that will not be removed. Otherwise, the application placement controller does not operate.

To configure the autonomic request flow manager to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_arfm=true

To configure the health management controller to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_hmm=true

To configure the high availability plugin-cfg generation service to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_PluginCfgGenerator=true

To configure the VMware activity publisher to start on a deployment manager or a node agent process, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_vmshimactivitypublisher=true

To configure the cell agent to start on the deployment managers of the point cells, set the following custom property:

HAManagedItemPreferred_cellagent=true