Monitoring tools essentially monitor Windows system information, such as disk space usage, CPU utilization, and Windows service status. These tools can also monitor and extract log file contents to determine the success or failure of the task that the software performs. The HPCA infrastructure monitoring relies on such inherent capabilities of the monitoring tools.
The HPCA infrastructure monitoring solution is designed to ensure that the critical monitoring information is available to third-party external monitoring tools. In the Core-Satellite model, the individual infrastructure components are integrated into two major entities, a Core server and a Satellite server. For both these servers, most of the infrastructure components run as Windows Services. The key operational processes including DCS synchronization and Proxy server Preload are monitored by analyzing the corresponding log file content.
The following table lists the HPCA components and the parameters that you should monitor if you plan to integrate a monitoring solution in your HPCA environment.
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Server Monitoring | HPCA Core/Satellite | Critical | Ping the Core/Satellite server at <IP address/fully qualified device name> |
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Windows Service Monitoring | HPCA Configuration Server | Critical | Service Name: ZTOPTASK EXE: ZTOPTASK.exe |
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HPCA Apache Server | Critical | Service Name: HPCA-Apache EXE: httpd.exe |
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HPCA Tomcat Server | Major | EXE: tomcat.exe |
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HPCA Boot Server (PXE) | Major | Service Name: HPCA-PXE EXE: cygrunsrv.exe |
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HPCA Boot Server (TFTP) | Major | Service Name: HPCA-TFTP EXE: inetd.exe |
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HPCA DB Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-DB EXE: mysqld-nt.exe |
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HPCA Directory Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-DS EXE: slapd.exe |
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HPCA Distributed Configuration Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-DCS EXE: nvdkit-hpca-dcs.exe |
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Windows Service Monitoring | HPCA Knowledge Base Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-KBM EXE: hpkbmanager.exe |
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HPCA Management Portal Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-RMP EXE: nvdkit-hpca-rmp.exe |
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HPCA Messaging Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-MS EXE: nvdkit-hpca-ms.exe |
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HPCA Multicast Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-MCAST EXE: nvdkit-hpca-mcast.exe |
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HPCA OS Manager | Major | Service Name: HPCA-OSM EXE: nvdkit-hpca-osm.exe |
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HPCA Patch Acquisition Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-PATCH EXE: nvdkit-hpca-patch.exe |
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HPCA Policy Server | Major | Service Name: HPCA-PM EXE: nvdkit-hpca-pm.exe |
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Service Response Monitoring | HPCA Apache Server Response | Major | URL: http://< server>:<server_port>/server-status |
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HPCA Apache Tomcat Server Response | Major | URL: http://<core>:<core port> /console/flex/console.jsp |
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HPCA Configuration Server Response | Critical | Run a batch script to internally execute the nvdkit.exe tpping.For example, nvdkit.exe tpping -host |
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HPCA Management Portal Server Response | Major | URL: http://<core host>:<core port>/proc/Radia/?WebService. Name=AuthenticateUser& Response.Format=Text&getauthds=true |
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HPCA Messaging Server Response | Major | URL: http://<host>:<port>/proc/msg |
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HPCA Policy Server Response | Major | URL: http://<server host>:<server port>/policy/ldap?dn=ldap%3a% 2f%2f%2fcn%3ddevice% 2ccn%3dhp%2ccn%3dradia |
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HPCA has the ability to integrate with existing HP monitoring products to provide flexible monitoring solution implementations.
HPCA also provides SiteScope solution template that includes a pre-configured set of monitors that you can deploy to monitor multiple aspects of HPCA components in the infrastructure. You can download the latest SiteScope HPCA template and documentation from HP Live Network at https://hpln.hp.com//page/monitoring-hp-client-automation.