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The Assets Page
The Assets page enables you to view information about discovered assets and, in some cases, modify or refine their connection credentials. It also enables you to delete assets, subject to certain restrictions and limitations, particularly in regard to Integration Server clusters and SNMP assets. In addition, this page also enables you to suspend monitoring of selected components.
If Broker auto-discovery is enabled, brokers and related components are automatically updated for all Broker Servers, though only Brokers and Broker Servers are displayed on the Assets page.
To view the Assets page, navigate the following path in My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > Analytics > Infrastructure Components > Assets.
The primary component of the Assets page is the Discovered Assets table. This table displays all discovered SNMP assets, Integration Servers, Integration Server clusters, My webMethods Servers, and Broker Servers/Brokers arranged in a hierarchical order. For Broker assets the parent Broker Server is added as a node in the tree view of assets, and all related Broker components appear beneath that node. Similarly, for SNMP assets the parent SNMP file is added as a node in the tree view of assets, and all related SNMP components appear beneath that node. The name, asset type, data collector used, connection status, and when the asset information was last updated are listed.
If a cluster enabled Integration Server is discovered, the IS Cluster asset is added as a parent node in the tree view of assets and all IS Cluster Server members appear beneath that node. Note that there are some restrictions on suspending and deleting these components as discussed below.
The Discovered Assets table provides information about each asset, as described in the table below.
Column
Description
NAME
Click a name to edit connection parameters for an asset. Click to expand a parent asset to view its children.
TYPE
Asset type: Universal Messaging Server,Broker Server, Broker, SNMP Configuration, Integration Server, IS Cluster, or IS Cluster server, My webMethods Server, SNMP, SNMP Agent, Adabas, ApplinX, EntireX, Natural, Natural Ajax, MashZone NextGen, or Terracotta.
DATA COLLECTOR
The name of the Infrastructure Data Collector associated with this asset.
Note:
If you have discovered the same Integration Server asset with two or more Infrastructure Data Collectors on different JMS queues, you must delete the asset here and then create a new discovery at the Discovery page that uses a single Infrastructure Data Collector.
ENABLED
The Enabled icon indicates the status of asset monitoring:
*A green enabled icon means monitoring is enabled for all components of the asset.
*A red suspended icon means monitoring is suspended for all components of the asset.
CONNECTION STATUS
Connection status (Accepted, Refused, or Connecting) of the asset. If the status is Refused, you can move your mouse over the status indicator to view a description of the associated error.
LAST UPDATED
The date/time when this asset was last updated.
ACTIONS
Click Edit icon to edit communication parameters for this asset.
You can do the following on the Assets page:
*Click the Delete button to remove selected assets. Note that the Delete button is inactive until at least one asset is selected. Deleting an Integration Server or Broker Server asset removes it from monitoring but does not remove the asset itself, nor does it remove historical data collected for the asset. Note that check boxes for individual Brokers are not available because they cannot be removed.
Note:
In the case of IS Clusters, you can only delete at the IS Cluster asset level. Deleting an IS Cluster asset will delete all IS Cluster Server assets associated with the specified IS Cluster. The IS Cluster and IS Cluster Server KPIs use a connection with any of the participating Integration Server to poll for KPI values and status, and thus at least one of the participating Integration Server must be discovered so that an Infrastructure Data Collector can establish a connection. When all Integration Servers that participate in an IS Cluster are deleted from the Assets page, the IS Cluster and IS Cluster Server KPIs will no longer be updated. Delete the IS Cluster asset from the Assets page if you no longer need to monitor this component.
Note also that users are not notified when an Integration Server leaves an IS Cluster. When an Integration Server instance leaves a cluster, Infrastructure Data Collector is not notified of the change, and the Integration Server remains on the Assets page. As a workaround, delete the Integration Server cluster asset from the Assets page and rediscover the IS Server. Then, re-select the component for monitoring.
Similarly, if KPI values are not being generated for an IS Cluster because the associated Integration Server asset has been suspended or deleted, then you should delete and re-discover the Integration Server asset associated with the cluster.
*Click the Refresh button to update connection status information for discovered assets.
*Click the Export Table button to view the contents of the Assets page as a table.
*See Deleting SNMP Component Assets for special instructions for deleting SNMP component assets.
*Click beside a column heading to sort the display by the information in the column.
*Click to expand the hierarchical tree to view all children, if applicable.
*Click the name of an asset, or click Edit icon, in the EDIT column to edit the connection parameters used to communicate with the asset. See Editing Connection Parameters for more information. Note that changes to these parameters are not reflected on the Discovery page.