IBM WebSphere

Required Agent Configuration for WAS 6.0 and 6.1

• For an HQ Agent to monitor WebSphere v6.0 or v6.1 instances, you must add this property definition to its agent.properties file, and then start or restart the agent:

  websphere.useext=true
  

• Do not define websphere.useext property for WebSphere v7 instances.

Work-Around for Known 1.4.2 Problem

• The HQ Agent will throw an exception and fail to start with a 1.4.2 JVM. This is due to a known problem in 1.4.2. If your WebSphere instance runs on 1.4.2 (the version built-in to WebSphere 6.0), avoid the problem by adding this line to agent.properties and then starting or restarting the agent:

  plugins.exclude=jboss,weblogic
  

• This prevents the HQ Agent from loading the JBoss and WebLogic plugins. For more information see plugins.exclude.