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Setting Up the Application Monitoring Data Collector

This document covers the following topics:


Configuration for Application Monitoring

The configuration file appmondc.properties controls the startup of the Application Monitoring Data Collector. It is located in the appmondc/config directory of your webMethods installation.

As a rule, it is not necessary to change the settings in this file after the installation. However, if required, you can change the following parameters:

Parameter Description
entirex.appmondc.jms.server The URL of the JMS server used by the Optimize installation. This value is set during the installation of the Application Monitoring Data Collector.

If the webMethods Broker is used as the JMS server, the URL has the form broker://<host>:<port>/Broker #1 or <host>:<port>/Broker #1. If Universal Messaging is used as the JMS server, the URL has the form nsp://localhost:9000.

entirex.appmondc.port The TCP/IP port on which the Application Monitoring Data Collector accepts the monitoring data. This value is set during the installation of the Application Monitoring Data Collector.
entirex.appmondc.tracedirectory The name of the directory which will contain the trace files. The default value is <install-dir>/profiles/appmondc/logs.

A trace file has the name appmondc<YYYYMMDD>.log.

entirex.appmondc.tracelevel The trace level for the trace files. Possible values are:

OFF
FATAL
ERROR
WARNING
INFO
DEBUG
TRACE

The default value is ERROR.

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Starting and Stopping the Application Monitoring Data Collector

The following topics are covered below:

Windows

When the Application Monitoring Data Collector is installed as a Windows service, it is automatically started and stopped together with the operating system. It is also possible to start the Application Monitoring Data Collector manually as described below.

Start of instruction setTo start the Application Monitoring Data Collector

Start of instruction setTo stop the Application Monitoring Data Collector

Note:
The above default entries can be changed during installation.

UNIX

On UNIX, the Application Monitoring Data Collector must always be started and stopped manually. The scripts mentioned below are located in the bin directory of your installation directory. By default, this is /opt/softwareag/appmondc/bin.

Start of instruction setTo start the Application Monitoring Data Collector

Start of instruction setTo stop the Application Monitoring Data Collector

Command Central

It is also possible to start and stop the Application Monitoring Data Collector with the Software AG tool Command Central. For more information, see the Command Central documentation.

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