Configuring IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor

Modify IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor settings to meet your specific needs.

Configuring

Monitored server considerations
When you are integrating IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor with supported server types, be sure you read the considerations for each server type.
Setting up IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to monitor FTP servers
By monitoring an FTP server using IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, you can gather information on the files transferred to and from the server.
Setting up IBM Control Center Monitor to monitor Sterling Secure Proxy servers
IBM Control Center Monitor can monitor the status and activity of Sterling Secure Proxy servers through a WebSphere® MQ instance.
Configuring events to process through Business Monitor
Before configuring IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to emit JMS events to an MQ Broker, first set up your MQ Broker to accept the JMS events to the topic or queue that you want. Then configure IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to emit the JMS events to the MQ Broker. After you configure this setup, you can then configure the IBM Business Monitor to subscribe to the topic or queue in the MQ Broker and receive the events.
Setting up IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to monitor Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent
IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor can monitor the status and activity of Sterling Connect:Direct File Agents that submit processes to a Sterling Connect:Direct® server that is managed by IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor.
Configuring system settings
After installation and configuration, you can begin using IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to monitor processing. However, if you want to use IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to send e-mail notifications to a system administrator, or to send Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps to an Enterprise System Management (ESM) tool, you must configure additional parameter settings.
Changing system server group names
You can change system server group names by editing the systemGroups.properties file. However, you must change system server group names before you start IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor for the first time.
Managing objects
Read these topics to understand how to handle IBM Control Center Monitor objects.
Managing data visibility groups
Data visibility groups (DVGs) limit what events (data) a specific user can monitor. For example, when multiple users have access to a single server, a DVG (together with a server group) provides a way to segment the data a user can view and act upon for that server.
Managing roles and users
Read these topics to understand how to manage roles and users, configure accounts, and set the password policy.
Managing servers
Read these topics to understand how to add servers and manage servers and server groups.
Database partitioning
Managing rules and actions
These topics explains how to manage rules, the actions that are triggered, and how to use predefined actions and rules.
Managing service level criteria
Service level criteria (SLCs) are performance objectives that require processing to occur within a certain time window.
Schedules overview
Schedules are associated with SLCs to specify when or for how long monitoring occurs. They are associated with rules to specify when events will be matched against rule criteria and when they will not.
Managing email lists
You can create lists of email addresses for groups of users who need to be contacted when an event occurs.
Metadata rules overview
Using metadata rules, you can append additional elements and values to IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor events before they are processed by both the Rule and SLC services.
Configuring JVM heap size in IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor
Configure JVM heap size in each IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor component to maximize performance.
Customizing properties in the Java Master Security file
Load balancer configuration for IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor
To maximize high availability in your IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor environment, you can configure a load balancer for web console sessions across instances of the Jetty Web Application Server.
Configuring IBM Global High Availability Mailbox to publish events to IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor
You need to configure IBM Global High Availability Mailbox so that it can publish events to IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor.
Setting up disaster recovery
With IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor 6.1 or later, you can configure a clustered environment to balance the load of monitoring servers and high availability.
IBM Sterling Control Center support to use Kerberos based authentication with Oracle database server

Parent topic: IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor 6.2.0