The application placement controller has been configured with elasticity mode enabled. Intermittently, all instances of a dynamic cluster are removed. After further review, the system administrator noticed that it occurs during peak load on another dynamic cluster.
The administrator wants to keep at least one instance available. Which configuration is needed in the dynamic clusters?
Answer : D
It is not recommended to enable elasticity mode when the following option is set in the administrative console for one or more dynamic clusters:
If other dynamic clusters need resources, stop all instances of this cluster during periods of inactivity.
If you have elasticity mode enabled and the option set, the application placement controller can remove all of the custom nodes in the cell.
Within a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment cell, a system administrator needs to write a script to determine if a particular server is stopped. It is important that the wsadmin script explicitly return a status of stopped as opposed to just failing.
What wsadmin object should the administrator use to write this script?
Answer : D
Use the AdminControl object to invoke operational commands that manage objects for the application server.
Many of the AdminControl commands have multiple signatures so that they can either invoke in a raw mode using parameters that are specified by Java Management Extensions (JMX), or by using strings for parameters. In addition to operational commands, the AdminControl object supports some utility commands for tracing, reconnecting with a server, and converting data types.
A system administrator needs to install WebSphere Application Server using response files, so that a silent install can be done. The administrator has ensured that all required prerequisites have already been installed and, has downloaded and expanded the required WebSphere Application Server installation files.
What can the administrator run to install the product?
Answer : C
Example of the use of the response files to install the product.
imcl.exe -acceptLicense
input C:\temp\keyring_response_file.xml
-log C:\temp\keyring_log.xml
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A system administrator has deployed an application. The development team has updated a new version of this application. The administrator needs to immediately deploy this updated application and guarantee that only this new edition is used by clients and that any service requests for the application are queued during the deployment of the new application.
How can the administrator achieve this task without any downtime to the application?
Answer : C
Performing an atomic rollout activates the new edition on half of the cluster first, and then activates the edition on the remaining half of the cluster. While the first half of the cluster is taken offline and updated, application requests are routed to the second half of the cluster. Verify that half the cluster can handle the entire load during the rollout period.
A system administrator suspects that the slow performance of an application might be caused by lock contention.
To debug this further, what can the administrator do using IBM Support Assistant?
Answer : A
The IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center is a lightweight tool that monitors active IBM Virtual Machines for Java with minimal performance overhead. The Health Center suggests live tuning recommendations for Garbage Collection, profiles methods including call stacks, and highlights contended locks. This information can help you optimize performance, improve stability and optimize system resource usage.
The tool is provided in two parts:
A system administrator wants to learn some of the Python scripting commands for the administration of the environment.
Which product feature should the administrator use?
Answer : D
A system administrator runs a Python script that creates and configures several servers and realizes that the script fails before completing. Although many tasks succeeded, they are rolled back when the script fails.
Before running the script again, what can the administrator add to the script after each task so the completed tasks are committed even if other tasks fail?
Answer : C