User Guide

About hosts 33
About hosts
Hosts can be configured from the System Console for the overall system. These are the physical machines on
which software processes will be running. A host can serve multiple partitions. You can work with hosts only
from the Shared resources node because Hosts are applicable across all partitions.
Hosts are created during the installation process. As of now a deployment can have only one host.
Editing hosts
Though you cannot create hosts from the System Console, you can modify the properties of hosts. There are only
a very few properties that you can edit from the console.
You may want to edit a host property to change its availability in the system. You may also want to monitor the
host functions frequently and hence want to change its monitoring interval.
To edit a host
1. In the Tree pane, browse to System > Shared Resources > Hosts.
2. In the List pane, select the host.
The Properties pane refreshes to show the properties of the host.
3. In the Properties pane, go to the General tab. All the properties of the host can’t be modified. You can only
enable or disable the host, or change its monitoring interval. You can’t modify the name, description, and
RMI port number of the host.
 Name: Displays the name of the host.
 Description: Displays the description of the host.
 Enabled: By default the host is enabled. Select No to disable to host.
 Monitoring interval: Set the monitoring interval in milliseconds. The default value is 60000
milliseconds.
 RMI port number: The RMI post number of the host.
Edit properties of a host
4. Click the Save button.