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The Devices section under [Manage→Devices] provides access to the set of devices monitored by DPOD.

Monitored Devices

This screen displays a table containing information on all the monitored devices connected to DPOD's console, and lets the administrator perform several configuration tasks, at a device, domain or service level.
Each row in the table contains the following details about a single device:

ColumnDescription
NameThe device's name in DPOD
HostIP Address of the device
SOMA portThe SOMA port configured on this device
Log Target Source IP Address of the device's log target source
Device Resources MonitoringWhether Device resources monitoring is enabled on this device
Service Resources MonitoringWhether Service resources monitoring is enabled on this device

(This information relates the information entered when Adding Monitored Devices)

Device Level Configuration

The following steps let an administrator perform device-level configuration tasks:

  1. Click one of the monitored devices in the Monitored Devices table.
    The system displays the device details, and a list of all the domains on that device.
  2. Click the Setup link (found at the top of the table, next to the label ‘Domains’)
  3. The system displays a list of administrator tasks available for this device. Consult the tables at the end of this page to find details about the available tasks.

Domain Level Configuration

The following steps let an administrator perform domain-level configuration tasks:

  1. Click one of the monitored devices in the Monitored Devices table. 
    The system displays the device details, and a list of all the domains on that device.
  2. Click one of the domains to select it.
    The system displays the domain's details and a list of all services running on the selected domain.
  3. Click the Setup link (found at the top of the table, next to the label ‘Services’)
  4. The system displays a list of administrator tasks available for this device. Consult the tables at the end of this page to find details about the available tasks.

Service Level Configuration

The following steps let an administrator perform service-level configuration tasks:

  1. Click one of the monitored devices in the Monitored Devices table. 
    The system displays the device details, and a list of all the domains on that device.
  2. Click one of the domains to select it.
    The system displays the domain's details and a list of all services running on the selected domain.
  3. Click one of the services.
    The system displays the service's details and a list of all endpoints in the service
  4.  Click the Setup link (found at the top of the table, next to the label ‘Endpoints’)
  5. The system displays a list of administrator tasks available for this device. Consult the tables at the end of this page to find details about the available tasks.

 

Available Tasks (Operations)

Device Level Operation Details

The following tasks are available for devices setup.

Task (OperationDetails

Setup Syslog for device

Sets up the necessary configuration for the device to send device-level Syslog records to the selected agent.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system or when you need to redirect the device-level Syslog messages to a different agent.
To setup the Syslog for a device, select a Syslog Agent from the drop-down list, and click the Setup Syslog for device button.

You can disable/enable this Syslog target by clicking on the "Device Syslog Status" Enabled/Disabled buttons.

Limitation: DPOD does not support transactions in default domain.

Setup Syslog for all domains

Sets up the necessary configuration for all the domains to send domain-level Syslog records to the selected agent.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system, or when you need to redirect the device-level Syslog messages to a different agent.
To setup the Syslog for all domains, select a Syslog Agent from the drop-down list, and click the Setup Syslog for all domains button.

You can disable/enable all these Syslog targets by clicking on the "Domains Syslog Status" Enabled/Disabled buttons.

Setup WS-M for all domains

Sets up WS-M configuration in all domains, so that it can later be activated by WS-M subscriptions.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system. It can also be executed again when a new domain is created.
(domains that were previously configured for WS-M will be unaffected)
To setup WS-M for all domains click the Setup WSM for all domains button.

Subscribe to WS-M for all domains

This will activate the WS-M subscription for all the services on all the domains, so that message payloads are recorded and sent to the selected DPOD WS-M agent.
This configuration should be executed whenever there is need to inspect the payload of transactions.
This option may affect service performance of both of your monitored device and DPOD, and WS-M subscriptions are therefore only active for 60 minutes.
Before enabling this option, verify that you have sufficient storage on your DPOD device.

Setup Extended Transaction for device

Extended Transactions are used to track cross-machine transactions, i.e. messages which are forwarded from one monitored DataPower Gateway to another.
To use Extended Transactions, devices must be configured (at device level). Extended transactions can be configured through the Web Console.

Setup Certificate Monitor for device

The certificate Monitor is used to provide alerts before certificate expiration. Each device must be configured (at device level) to enable certificate expiry alerts.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system.

Domain Level Operation Details

The following tasks are available for domains setup.

Task (Operation)Details
Setup Syslog

Sets up the necessary configuration for this domain to send domain-level Syslog records to the selected agent.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system, or when you need to redirect the domain-level Syslog messages to a different agent.
To setup the Syslog for a domain, select a Syslog Agent from the drop-down list, and click the Setup Syslog button.

You can disable/enable this Syslog target by clicking on the "Domain Syslog Status" Enabled/Disabled buttons.

Setup WS-M

Sets up WS-M configuration in this domain, so that it can later be activated by WS-M subscriptions.
This configuration should be executed once after installing the system, or after creating a new domain.

Subscribe to WS-M

This will activate the WS-M subscription for all the services on this domain, so that message payloads are recorded and sent to the selected DPOD WS-M agent.
This configuration should be executed whenever there is need to inspect the payload of transactions.
This option may affect service performance of both of your monitored device and DPOD, and WS-M subscriptions are therefore only active for 60 minutes.
Before enabling this option, verify that you have sufficient storage on your DPOD device.

Setup Extended Transaction for all services

Extended Transactions are used to track cross-machine transactions, i.e. messages which are forwarded from one monitored DataPower Gateway to another.
Choosing this option will enable support for extended transactions for services on this domain. This is performed by adding a new step to all the services, which inserts the Extended Transaction correlation ID into the message header. DPOD uses this correlation ID to track the extended transactions.

This configuration should be executed once after installing the system (either at a service or a domain level), or when you need to add extended transaction support for services in the domain. If extended transactions were previously enabled for some of the services in this domain, executing this will add the new step to new services only - the previously configured services will be unaffected.

Service Level Operation Details

The following task is available for services setup.

Task (Operation)Details
Setup Extended Transaction

Extended Transactions are used to track cross-machine transactions, i.e. messages which are forwarded from one monitored DataPower Gateway to another.
Choosing this option will enable support for extended transactions for services on this domain. This is performed by adding a new step to all the services, which inserts the Extended Transaction correlation ID into the message header. DPOD uses this correlation ID to track the extended transactions.

This configuration should be executed once after installing the system (either at a service or a domain level), or when you need to add extended transaction support for services in the domain. Executing this again for a service that has already been enabled for extended transactions will not change its state.

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