Handling Overload or Failure Conditions

In addition to setting the maximum queue length, there are a number of things an administrator can do to handle overload or server failure conditions. WebLogic Server's self-health monitoring mechanism marks a server as failed when it traps a critical failure condition. You can configure various options as to how the server should react to a failed state. You can access the server overload management page in the Administration Console by going to Environment | Servers | <server_name> | Configuration | Overload. Figure 5-4 shows this page. You have already learned how to set the maximum queue length from this page. Here are the other configuration options you can set in this page to handle overload and ...

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