Application Server administrators can use the management rules feature to set policies that self-configure and self-tune the connection pool or ORB thread pool, detect thread or server hangs, manage memory leaks and out of memory errors, and manage disk usage. This feature allows Application Server to do the following:
Manage complexity through self-configuration
Improve ease-of-use by automating mundane management tasks
Improve performance by self-tuning in unpredictable runtime conditions
Improve availability by preventing and recovering from failures
Improve security by taking self-protective actions when security threats are detected
Self management in GlassFish is built on a simple concept of management rules. A management rule is built using the standard JMX infrastructure. The rule has two parts: an event to be detected, and an optional action to be performed upon detecting the event. The configuration is a set of rules specified by the...