Command Central plug-in

Using the Software AG Command Central web user interface and command line interface you can manage PPM components in your Software AG products environment.

The Command Central is a tool to administer hundreds of managed product installations in your IT landscape from a central location. Command Central is built on top of Software AG Common Platform and product-specific features are in the form of plug-ins. PPM provides an own Command Central Platform Manager plug-in. The PPM plug-in is available as a separate item in the SAG Installer product tree. It is automatically selected when installing the PPM (server) product.

PPM components in Command Central

Each PPM client needs two PPM servers running, a client server and an analysis server. In Command Central every supported PPM server is displayed as individual PPM component:

You can use Command Central to manage the following operations for all supported PPM components:

Some operations in Command Central, for example, status display and life cycle operations, require a running "Software AG PPM" infrastructure service

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Life cycle Actions for PPM

The following table lists the actions that PPM supports.

Action

Description

Stop

Stops a PPM component that was started earlier.

Start

Starts a PPM component that was stopped or not started.

Run-time Monitoring Statuses for PPM components

Status information about PPM components running on the same machine as the Command Central Platform Manager.

The following table lists the run-time statuses that are displayed in the Command Central UI and the corresponding status as displayed in the Cloud Controller application.

Command Central States

Cloud Controller States

Description

STARTING

STARTING

The PPM component server is starting.

ONLINE

STARTED

The PPM component server is running.

STOPPING

STOPPING

The PPM component server is stopping.

STOPPED

STOPPED

The PPM component server has been shut down.

STARTING

DOWN

The infrastructure will try to restart the component a number of times. After several unsuccessful starting attempts the respective component goes into state FAILED.

FAILED

FAILED

The PPM component server could not be started.

UNKNOWN

DEACTIVATED

The PPM component has been deactivated by Cloud Controller.

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

The state is unknown.

Monitoring KPIs

Associated with each KPI are a maximal, a marginal, and a critical value. Typically the marginal and critical values are computed as a percentage of the maximum. The following KPIs are defined:

KPI

Description

Max

Critical

Marginal

JVM CPU Load

CPU usage

100

99

90

JVM Memory

Used heap (including garbage)

Depends on JVM

95% * max

85% * max

JVM Old Gen Memory

Collection usage of old generation memory pool

Depends on JVM

pc * max

pm * max

JVM Threads

Threads in the JVM

Peak thread count

n/a

n/a

The marginal threshold is reached when the memory load guard would issue a warning. The critical threshold is reached when it would refuse execution. The respective percentages are:

The following KPIs are displayed for PPM client servers (in order from left to right):

  1. JVM CPU Load
  2. JVM Memory
  3. JVM Threads

The following KPIs are displayed for PPM analysis servers (in order from left to right):

  1. JVM CPU Load
  2. JVM Memory
  3. JVM Old Gen Memory

Viewing log files

For PPM client server and analysis server the following log files can be displayed.

Supported Functions and Configurations for Different Product Versions

Core Functions

Function

9.0...9.10

9.12

Composite templates

 

 

Database management

 

 

Installation

 

 

Instances

 

 

Inventory

 

supported

Lifecycle

 

supported

Log access

 

supported

Monitoring

 

supported

Snapshot templates

 

 

SSO

 

 

Status

 

supported

Configuration Types

None