Using the Deployment Status Dashboard

Broker Status Monitor

The Broker Status Monitor component on the Deployment Status Dashboard shows the status of the Brokers.

Activate the Broker Status Monitor

To activate the Broker Status Monitor component on the Deployment Status Dashboard on the Remote Control Server:

1. From the Remote Control Server web interface menu, select Admin > Edit Properties File and then select trc.properies.
2. At the bottom of the page, in the Status Dashboard - Configure the Broker Status Monitor section, set the property rc.dashboard.show.broker.status to True.
3. At the top of the page, click Submit.
4. From the Remote Control Server web interface menu, select Admin > Reset Application.

Update the Brokers configuration

• For Brokers of version higher than 10.0.0.0514, restart the broker.
• For Brokers of earlier version:
  1. Update the trc_broker.properties file of each broker by adding the following line:

     HeartBeatTimeout = number_of_minutes

     where number_of_minutes is the value that was set in rc.dashboard.broker.heartbeat.minutes.
  2. Restart the broker.

Broker Status Control

The Broker Status Control component shows the status of the broker as known to the server.

The status of the broker is determined from the fact that the brokers contact the server at rc.dashboard.broker.heartbeat.minutes intervals. If the server does not receive a contact from the broker after the defined interval, it flags the broker status as Offline.

On Demand Target Activity Monitor

The On Demand Target Activity Monitor enables to view the broker activity related to On Demand Targets activity over time.

Activating the On Demand Target Activity Monitor

To activate On Demand Target Activity Monitor on the Remote Control Server:

1. From the Remote Control Server web interface menu, select Admin > Edit Properties File > trc.properties.
2. At the bottom of the page, in the Status Dashboard - Include OnDemand Activity in Broker Trend section, set the property rc.dashboard.show.ondemand.trend to True.
3. At the top of the page, click Submit.
4. From the web interface menu, select Admin > Reset Application.

Important: If the On Demand Target Activity Monitor is used along with other dashboard features, you need to configure rc.dashboard.broker.mapping to avoid brokers duplication on the dashboard page. This property defines a mapping between the broker IP address as seen by the server and the hostname of the broker. For example: “10.14.75.67,eolo;10.14.75.62,harlock”. Refer to the property description in the edit trc.property web page for more information on how to configure the parameter.

Broker Activity History Control

• When the Unattended Target support is not activated, this control shows how many OnDemand sessions are established by each broker in the given time interval. The default time interval is 60 minutes.
• When the Unattended Target support is activated, the OnDemand session counts are added to the incoming heartbeats (only if OnDemand Target Activity Monitor has been activated).

Unattended Target Activity Monitor

When the Unattended Target support is activated, the dashboard shows the real-time status of the broker activity trend related to this type of target over time and the status of the reporting targets by broker.

The Broker Activity History Control

This control shows how many heartbeats are received by each broker in the given time interval.

The time interval corresponds to the value of the rc.unattended.heartbeat.interval.minutes property.

The Unattended Target Status Control

This control shows the real time status of Unattended targets. The status can be:

• • Ready The target is ready.
  • Offline The target is offline.
  • Initiating The target is about to start a Remote Control Session.
  • Busy The target is in a Remote Control Session.
  • Managed The target once registered as Unattended has reverted to Managed.
  • Unknown The target that has not contacted the Server after a Server restart.
  • Error The target is in error status.

You can get a list of targets in Offline, Busy, Unknown and Error status by clicking on the More Details button on the control.

You can also exclude specific target status from the view by clicking the corresponding status icon on the control legend.

Application Errors Monitor

The Application Errors Monitor component allows to monitor error conditions on the Remote Control Server Application.

The table shows the last 100 errors that occurred on the server application in chronological order. You can clear the data in the table by clicking the "Clear" button at the top right corner of the box.

Additional Dashboard Controls

The following additional options can be used to control the Dashboard behavior.

Dashboard Preload at System Start Up

The dashboard operates on real time data. After the server is restarted, the Unattended Target Status Control and the Broker Status Control are empty and updated as real time data start to flow into the server. This is the default behavior.

Alternatively, it is possible to preload this controls at Server Start up. In this case the Unattended Target status and the Broker status will appear as “Unknown” until the targets and brokers have contacted the Server.

To activate the preload at Server start up set the rc.dashboard.preload.on.startup property to True.

A Server Restart is needed for this property to take effect.

Trend Controls Interval and Data Points

When activating Trends Control the system selects predefine values for the rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.number and the rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.minutes properties. Those properties define how many data points are shown on the trend control and how many minutes a data point represents. Default Values when monitoring OnDemand Activity are as follows:

Property	Value	Meaning
rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.number rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.minutes	30 60	30 datapoint of 60 minutes each. Provides a 30 hour coverage.

Default Values when monitoring Unattended Activity are as follow:

Property	Value	Meaning
rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.number rc.dashboard.trend.intervals.minutes	30 2 1	30 datapoint of 2 minutes each. Provides 1-hour coverage.

To override default values, specify the desired values in trc.properties.

Refreshing the Status Dashboard view

You can manually refresh the Status Dashboard by clicking the refresh icon on the page title bar.

Alternatively you can click the Autorefresh checkbox for a 20 seconds automatic page update.