Using persistent monitoring

Persistent monitoring is a subsystem of InterChange Server Express that monitors and stores historical state and statistical information of collaboration objects, connectors and the system as a whole.

This section describes how to configure system-wide and component-level persistent monitoring and how to access the results from persistent monitoring.

Note:
You must consider the database volume requirements, as well as a data deletion strategy, when planning the number of components being monitored and the frequency at which they are monitored.

This section covers the following topics:

Configuring persistent monitoring

Accessing the results from persistent monitoring

Configuring persistent monitoring

You configure the various levels of persistent monitoring for system components from the Web-based System Monitor.

You can also configure certain system-wide parameters of persistent monitoring. The following instructions explain how to do this.

  1. Open the Edit Configuration tool by right-clicking the server from the Server Instances section of System Manager, then select Edit Configuration. The upper-right section of the System Manager window becomes a tool from which you can edit the InterchangeServer.cfg file.
  2. Select the Misc tab (see Figure 7).

    Figure 7. Edit Configuration screen, Misc tab

  3. Do the following in the "Persistent Monitoring pane:
    1. Select Continue in the "Action on error" drop-down menu if you want InterChange Server to continue running in the event of errors experienced by the persistent monitoring system.
      Select Shutdown in the "Action on error" drop-down menu if you want InterChange Server to shut down in response to errors with the subsystem.
    2. Select the desired tracing level in the "Persistent monitoring service" drop-down menu to specify the tracing level for the subsystem.

For additional configuration of persistent monitoring, see Deleting historical statistics and Setting the frequency for capturing historical data.

Accessing the results from persistent monitoring

You access the results of persistent monitoring by using the Web-based System Monitor. Many default views are provided with the Web-based System Monitor that display historical state and statistical information. These include: Connector, Connector Overview, Collaboration Overview, Collaboration History, Server Statistics, and Server History. For more information on using default views, see Using default views. Alternatively, you can create your own views that can contain historical data. For more information on creating views, see Creating new views.

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