5.6.3 IBM WebSphere Application Server planning considerations This section provides configuration settings recommendations that are relevant to create a performing IBM WebSphere Application Server infrastructure for the IBM Tivoli License Manager environment. This section does not present an exhaustive list of IBM WebSphere Application Server configuration capabilities and only focuses on the configurations that can have an impact on the overall performance of the J2EE environment used by IBM Tivoli License Manager applications. IBM Tivoli License Manager consists of two different J2EE applications as follows: SLM_Admin_Application identifies the ITLM Administration server application. SLM_Runtime_Application identifies the ITLM Runtime server application. Both of them are Web applications, which means that they do not contain EJB or Client Application modules. As the above applications are Web applications running on top of IBM WebSphere Application Server, the focus in terms of performance tuning is reduced to the handling of HTTP traffic and database connections. In terms of failover, the focus is to ensure that at least one instance of each application is up