Getting started with monitoring IBM Sterling Connect:Direct FASP transfers
The getting started with a Sterling Connect:Direct® server that uses FASP workflow outlines high-level steps to set up and monitor Sterling Connect:Direct file transfers that use FASP. This workflow describes how to configure a Sterling Connect:Direct server to enable FASP, monitor a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP, and troubleshoot a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP.
There are several considerations when you monitor a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP. The following sections help you identify the steps that you need to complete successfully to monitor a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP.
Important: Depending on the version of Sterling Connect:Direct, there are limitations within IBM® Control
Center related to the FASP protocol.
Configuring a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP
Before you monitor a Sterling Connect:Direct server
that uses FASP, you must configure the Sterling Connect:Direct server. The following list
contains tasks to complete when you configure a Sterling Connect:Direct server to use FASP:
- Configure FASP parameters in the initialization parameters and netmap in the IBM Control Center Configuration Management. See Keys and fields, Viewing Initialization Parameters, and Netmap node field definitions.
- Configure a load balancer with the High Speed Add-On (HSAO) option of Sterling Connect:Direct and enable SSP bridging. For more details, see the Using a Load Balancer with Connect:Direct’s High Speed Add-On (HSAO) Option white paper that is available at Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX Documentation and Sterling Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows Documentation.
Monitoring a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP
After you configure a Sterling Connect:Direct server to use FASP, you can monitor FASP file transfers. The following list provides information about how to view FASP information:- View IBM Sterling Connect:Direct FASP configuration changes. See Sterling Connect:Direct configuration changes audit report and Using the audit log.
- Run various reports to view FASP parameter changes. See Server Inventory Report, Initialization Parameters Report, Netmap Nodes Report, Sterling Connect:Direct Statistics Log Report, and Keys and fields.
- Include configuration changes in the Active Alerts by Category widget for a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP. See Active Alerts by Category widget.
- Compare Sterling Connect:Direct servers with the lowest average throughput of FASP and non-FASP file transfers, and the number of FASP and non-FASP transfers of the selected servers. Based on this information, you can change your FASP settings. See Sterling Connect:Direct FASP usage widget.
Scenarios for monitoring a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP
The following user scenarios give you ideas for configuring rules for a Sterling Connect:Direct server that uses FASP:- How can I know whether there was a failed Sterling Connect:Direct copy step in a transfer that uses FASP?
- How can I use message IDs to track a Sterling Connect:Direct FASP-related failure?
- How can I create a metadata rule for a Sterling Connect:Direct FASP-related process?
- How do I generate an email notification for a failed Sterling Connect:Direct transfer that uses FASP?
- How can I know whether a Sterling Connect:Direct netmap or initialization parameter configuration value changed?