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System Services Management

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Last updated: Mar 06, 2022 by Amit Munwes
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DPOD system services are operating system processes performing various processing and maintenance tasks.
Depending on your system's processing profile requirements, some services may have more than a single instance.

DPOD's Internal services are divided into the following groups:

  1. Agents – These services collect data passively from monitored Devices then stores it in the Store.

  2. Housekeeping - Services executing scheduled tasks such as polling data from monitor devices, health checks and maintenance.

  3. Database – These services host database services for all the data stored in DPOD, (e.g. raw logs and configuration data). Refer to Components for more detail about the database.

  4. Other – Services which perform various other tasks.

The following tables list the various DPOD's services and their function

Agents

Service Name

Function

Service Name

Function

Syslog Agent *

Syslog Agents passively receive raw log records from monitored DataPower Gateways, process them and store them into the Store.

The number of process instances for this agent depends on the installation requirements.

WS-M Agent *

WS-M Agents passively receive message payload information from monitored DataPower Gateways on which WS-M recording has been enabled.
Payloads are processed and stored in a dedicated index set inside the Big Data store.

The number of process instances for this agent depends on the installation requirements.

Other

Housekeeping

Service Name

Function

Service Name

Function

Store Retention

Perform core maintenance tasks such as Store index management and scheduling task to the Housekeeping servers.

Housekeeping Server

Each service instance can perform any schedule task such as:

  • Polling devices and services resources information and store it in the store.

  • Performing various system health checks.

  • Collecting and calculating statistics to show in dashboards.

number of instances of this service type varies depend on the deployment profile selected on install (i.e. low, medium, high)

Reports/Alerts

Run reports (schedule or on demand), alerts (schedule or on demand) and DevOps portal tasks

Database

Service Name

Function

Service Name

Function

Configuration Database

Manages DPOD's internal SQL database used to retain configuration data, agent states etc.

Store Nodes

Manages the data collected by agents and housekeeping servers.

Other

Service Name

Function

Service Name

Function

Admin Console

Web UI allows system administrators to perform various admin task such as backup the system or configre LDAP.

Console UI

Hosts and manages the web-based Console used to interact with DPOD UI.

Store Dashboards

Hosts the Expert Mode dashboards UI for API-C users.



* These agents can have more than one instance, appearing as multiple processes in the operating system.

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