Servers

Dynamically discovered servers

Dynamically discovered servers, such as IBM Global High Availability Mailbox servers and IBM sterling Secure Proxy version 602 and later, are monitored by IBM Control Center Monitor through listening for events that are posted to the event repository (ER).

You do not need to configure IBM Control Center Monitor before the servers post events. You need to configure the dynamically discovered server to publish events to IBM Control Center Monitor.

The ER dynamically discovers the new servers, assigns them to event processors (EPs), and writes events to the unprocessed event table in the IBM Control Center Monitor database. EPs then collect events from the assigned servers through collecting events from the unprocessed event table.

Manually defined servers

Manually defined servers are servers that you need to manually configure in IBM Control Center Monitor for monitoring. IBM Control Center Monitor monitors these servers through polling, listening on a queue, or receiving Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps.

EPs collect and receive events from the manually defined servers that are assigned to them, and process the events immediately after they are received.

IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor retrieves the following data from the manually defined server resources:

Sterling Connect:Direct

• Statistics
• Processes

Sterling Connect:Enterprise

Information about files that are transferred into mailboxes and out of mailboxes:

• Remote connect batches
• Autoconnect batches
• Offline batches

Sterling B2B Integrator

• File transfer activities
• Business process activities

Sterling File Gateway

• Arrived file events
• Delivery events
• Route events

Sterling Connect:Express

• Queued process data
• Statistics

Sterling Secure Proxy

• Information about audit events for each engine that is defined to the Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager
• Heartbeat messages with information on the Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager, Configuration Manager engines, and the adapters for the engines
• Audit Event messages with information on Sterling Secure Proxy objects that are created, updated, and deleted

MQ MFT

Messages with event information about files that are transferred to or from the MQ MFT server

FTP server

Messages with event information about files that are transferred to and from the FTP server

You need to configure the manually defined servers in IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor so that IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor can access these resources. For some manually defined servers, you need to configure them on the server side as well.