Repository Status

The Repository Status panel provides a Systems Administrator with a list of all the Repositories and whether they are working correctly. If a system problem is suspected, you can check the icon that is displayed. The icon instantly tells you the availability of the CCI Server, the DRAS Server, and the Repository.

Note: The Repository check is a real time status check so if a large number of Repositories are defined in CA OM Web Viewer, this panel can take longer to display. If there is a CCI or DRAS failure that blocks several systems, the checks can take a longer time and can timeout each Repository.

The CCI Server, DRAS Server, or Repository is up and working as expected.

A problem exists. The CCI Server, DRAS Server, or Repository is either not available or not reachable.

Repository Name

Lists the names of the Repository objects defined on the system.

These Repository names match the Repository object names defined when an administrator creates a Repository object at the create Repository Panel.

Domain Connection

The primary location of the Repository objects.

Displays information about whether each part of the connect path (CCI Server, DRAS Server, and Repository) to that Repository object is reachable and up. Each object must point to at least one repository location--the primary location defined in the Repository panel.

Note: A "Repository location " consists of one mainframe system ENF id, one DRAS system, and one View, Dispatch, or Bundl system. Only the primary location of the Repository is listed in this section, although the Repository can also have alternate locations.

The Domain Connection has columns for the CCI Server, the DRAS Server, and Repository:

CCI Server

Lists the Event Notification Facility (ENF) ID. This ID is also used by the CCI server that is being used to try to connect to a repository.

When the Mainframe, ENF, or CCI server is down, is displayed in this column. The following columns also show a symbol because the DRAS server and the Repository are unreachable through this CCI server.

Note: If the CCI server is down and you are unable to connect to a certain Repository, even though the Repository object is unreachable, it may actually be up and working correctly. The CCI server can make the Repository appear to be down.

DRAS Server

The CA Distributed Repository Access System (CA DRAS) for each Repository.

When a DRAS server is down or unreachable, is displayed in this column. The Repository column that follows also shows a symbol, because it cannot be reached through that DRAS server.

Note: A Repository that follows a DRAS server that appears down can actually be running correctly, but cannot be reached because the connection is down..

Repository Name

Represents a CA View, CA Dispatch, or CA Bundl repository. The name used is defined by the ACCESS REPOSITORY statement in the DRAS configuration of the DRAS being used to connect to this Repository.

For more information on any of the connection parts see Creating a new Repository Object, the Location Address Explanation section.

Note: For more information on any of the connection parts see the following:

The topic Creating a new Repository Object, the Location Address Explanation section
The topic DRAS Load Balancing.
The CA DRAS Operations Guide.

Follow these steps:

From the Web Statistics tab, click the Repository status subtab.
The information about the repositories and connections used by CA OM Web Viewer is displayed.
(Optional) If the Server or Repository you are looking for is not displayed on this screen you can do one of the following:
- Use the navigation arrows at the top left corner of the pane to view more pages, and scroll the page left and right.
  To the left of the navigation arrows is a numerical display showing the total number of pages of Repositories. These arrows do not appear if there are less than 20 Repository objects.
- Use the Find command in your browser.