Monitoring Components

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Monitored components are components of discovered assets, such as Integration Servers, Universal Messaging Servers, and Broker Servers, about which Optimize can report information. In order to monitor, or collect information about, a component of a discovered asset, one or more KPIs must be associated with that component. This section describes how to view and configure monitored components.

In an appropriately configured system, the Monitored Components page shows a tree view of component types that can be monitored. By default, a set of monitored component types is added to the Monitored Components page when you start the Infrastructure Data Collector, and these enable you to collect a baseline of information about your system infrastructure using KPIs. In addition, a set of KPIs is also provided for available components, and you must associate these with applicable components in order to initiate monitoring. Also, if you want to monitor additional system components, you must discover the appropriate assets as described earlier in this chapter, and then associate the appropriate KPIs with the appropriate components. An Edit icon is provided on the Monitored Components page to enable you to select those instances and KPIs.

Note that the Monitored Components page is empty until you start an Infrastructure Data Collector in your environment. The default set of component types that you can monitor is loaded when you start the Infrastructure Data Collector; however, the number of available components displayed in the Monitored Components page is zero until you have discovered assets of that component type (see Discovering Assets for instructions).

Tip: If the default set of monitored components does not appear after you have started the Infrastructure Data Collector, first confirm that the Infrastructure Data Collector, Analytic Engine, and My webMethods with the Optimize user interface have been installed and started. If these components have been installed and started, it is likely that the metadata was not properly loaded. Use the following steps to reload the metadata: (1.) Verify that the JMS Queue configuration is the same for both the Infrastructure Data Collector and the Analytic Engine. This can be verified from the JNDI Configuration “Connection Uri” setting on the Configure Servers tab in the Edit Environment page (Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > Environments > Define Environments). (2.) Shut down the Infrastructure Data Collector (see Starting and Stopping Infrastructure Data Collector. (3.) Open Software AG_directory/profiles/InfraDC/configuration/infradc/config/infradc.cnf in a text editor, and set the metadataloaded property to false. (4.) Restart the Infrastructure Data Collector.

After you have discovered assets of a component type in your environment, you can configure the instances of that component type that you want to monitor, as well as the KPIs that you want to use to monitor the instances of that component type. For detailed information about the KPIs associated with each type of monitored component, see Monitored KPI Definitions

Note: The Broker data collector does not automatically detect when a Broker territory or gateway is deleted. As a result, the Monitored Components and Analytics Overview pages still show that the Territories, Gateways, and related KPIs exist. As a workaround, you should manually remove territories and gateways from the Monitored Components page and delete the related KPIs.

Displaying a List of Monitored Components

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To display a list of Monitored components

Procedure

In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > Analytics > Infrastructure Components > Monitored Components

Results

The Monitored Components page is displayed.

Monitored Components page

You can do the following from the Monitored Components page:

  • Click Expand All icon to expand the hierarchical tree to view all children.
  • Click the name of a component type, or click Edit icon, to edit the components and KPIs selected for this component type.
  • Click Sort icon beside a column heading to sort the display by the information in the column.

    The Components table provides information about the available monitored components, as described in the following table.

Column Description
TYPE Monitored component type. If assets have been discovered for this component type, the number of discovered assets of this type appears in the Available column, and the component type is editable. Click the name of the component type, or the Edit Edit icon, to change the selected component instances or KPIs associated with this component type. Click Expand icon to view children of the component type.
SELECTED Number of components of this type selected.
AVAILABLE Number of components of this type available for selection.
ACTIONS Contains an Edit Edit icon for each monitored component. This icon is unavailable for components types of which no assets have yet been discovered.

The following table describes the controls.

Control Description
Edit icon Edit Click to edit the associated component in the Edit Monitored Component page. (You can also click the name of the component to display the Edit Monitored Component page.)
Export Table Click to display the contents of the Components table as a .csv file.

Configuring Monitored Components

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Before you begin

The following procedure shows how to configure components for monitoring.
Note: In order to use the Object Status rule on any child component, the root component must also be selected for monitoring. If the root component is not selected, the selected child component will not have the Object Status rule. Without this rule, any online/offline alerts are not processed.

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To configure a monitored component

Procedure

  1. Display the list of monitored components (see Displaying a List of Monitored Components).
  2. Do either of the following:
    • Click the component type name. Names of component types for which assets have been discovered are blue and underlined.

    • In the EDIT column, click Edit icon Edit for the associated component type.

      The settings for the component are displayed on the Edit Component Type page.

    Edit Component Type page
  3. Changes the component type settings.
    The following table describes the changes that you can make to the component type settings.
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    Enable monitoring of the instances of this component type In the Selected Components panel:
    1. Click Enable Components. The Add Component Instances dialog displays.
    2. To reduce the number of instances displayed, enter matching text in the Filter: field and click Go.
    3. Select one or more instances from the list.
    4. Click OK to add the selected instances to the Selected Components list.
    Disable monitoring of the instances of this component type In the Selected Components panel:
    1. Select the component instance(s) you want to disable.
    2. Click Disable Components.
    Add KPIs to use for this component type In the Selected KPIs panel:
    1. Click Add KPIs.
    2. To reduce the number of KPIs displayed, enter matching text in the Filter: field and click Go.
    3. Select one or more KPIs from the list.
    4. Click OK to add the selected KPIs to the Selected KPIs list.
    Remove KPIs for this component type In the Selected KPIs panel:
    1. Select the KPI(s) you want to remove.
    2. Click Delete.
    Note: The Object Status KPI is automatically selected for monitoring once a component type instance has been selected, and it cannot be removed.
  4. Click Save to save changes, or click Cancel to close the Edit Component page without saving.