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Fabric Monitor

This section provides instructions for installing and configuring the Appistry™ Fabric Monitor. The Appistry Fabric Monitor is an application that allows you to view the current status of a fabric. The flash-based monitor receives fabric data from a Tomcat/Axis-based application located on the same side of the firewall as the fabric. For information regarding the monitor's operation refer to the HTML help file included in the fabric monitor installation.

The Appistry Fabric Monitor installation consists of the following procedures:

Installing and testing Apache Tomcat

  1. Download Apache Tomcat 5.5. (Refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/ for more information.)
  2. Install the application according the Apache project documentation.
  3. To test the installation, go to http://localhost:8080. If the installation was successful the Tomcat Administration and Documentation page appears. If this page does not appear, refer to the Apache project documentation.

Installing Apache Axis and the AdminService

None of the these components may be run from the CD itself. You must install all the components on the computer.

  1. Place the Appistry EAF CD into the CD-ROM drive, or download the fabric_monitor archive (.zip or .tgz according to your preference).
  2. Unarchive the fabric_monitor archive file of your choice.  The decompression process creates a FabricMonitor directory containing the following three files and docs subdirectory.
    • fabric_monitor.swf - the Appistry Fabric Monitor flash application
    • fabric_monitor.html - a web page to run the Appistry Fabric Monitor flash application
    • axis archive (again .zip or .tgz respectively) - an Apache Axis application directory with the AdminService pre-installed.
  3. Unarchive the axis archive file into the following directory tomcat webapp directory. On Windows, this would be C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapp directory.
  4. Start Tomcat.
  5. To test the Axis installation, go to the following pages

Running Appistry Fabric Monitor

  1. To run Appistry Fabric Monitor as a stand-alone application, use the Flash player. To run Appistry Fabric Monitor in a browser, open the fabric_monitor.html page which is found in the FabricMonitor directory.
    The Appistry Fabric Monitor opens and the Options box appears.



    If the Adobe Flash Player Security dialog box appears, you must change the Flash Player Global Settings.

  2. Enter the fabric MCAST address in the Group field.
    What about this fabric MCAST address?
    Each fabric is assigned a unique MCAST address. Fabric clients and utilities (like Log Monitor and Fabric Control) use this MCAST address to communicate with the fabric. This address defaults to 239.255.0.1, but can be changed by setting the fabric-address property in the addr.cfg file that is deployed to all fabric workers. The fabric MCAST address specified by clients and utilities must match the fabric-address entry in the addr.cfg or 239.255.0.1 if using the default. As you go through command and code samples, please be sure to use the correct fabric MCAST address for your installation.
  3. Enter the desired port in the Port address. The default port is 30003.
  4. Modify the performance refresh interval in milliseconds, if desired.
  5. Modify the worker view refresh interval in milliseconds, if desired.
  6. Enter the Administrator Service URL. For example, http://localhost:8080/axis/services
  7. Click the Apply button. Workers appear as hexagons in the right side of the Appistry Fabric Monitor. If the fabric is processing requests, TPS, CPU, and worker count appears on the graphs on the left side of the Appistry Fabric Monitor.