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Data Monitoring Using CA Wily Introscope

This section contains the following topics:

Data Monitoring Using CA Wily Introscope

Monitor Web Agents with the OneView Monitor

Data Monitoring Using CA Wily Introscope

If you are already using CA Wily Introscope in your organization, you can monitor the health of the SPS. You can use the Wily EPAgent to monitor the following statistics of a Tomcat server:

• The average response time of each of the following CA SiteMinder® SPS component:
  • Session Discovery
  • Java Web Agent
  • Post Agent Session Writer
  • Proxy Rules Filter
  • Noodle Servlet
  • HTTP Client
• The average response time of each backend server
• The CA SiteMinder® SPS request wait time
• Number of hits for each proxy rule
• The CA SiteMinder® SPS Agent framework instances health data

The data monitoring section has the following format:

<Server>
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.
monitor_data_buffer_size="1000"
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</Server>

<metric-reporter name="Wily Metric Reporter">                             
enabled="yes"
class="com.ca.proxy.monitor.wily.WilyMetricReporter"
endpoint="tcp://localhost:8886"

</metric-reporter>

monitor_data_buffer_size

Specifies the size of the buffer the CA SiteMinder® SPS maintains to store the collected statistics before sending them/statistics to Wily.

Default Value: 1000

metric-reporter name

Specifies the name of the metric reporter. You can use this name to debug any metric errors.

enabled

Specifies the state of the data monitoring feature. If you want to monitor the health of SPS, set the value to yes. If you do not want to monitor the health of the SPS, set the value to no.

Default Value: no

endpoint

Specifies the configuration details of the EPAgent. Start the EPAgent before you communicate with the SPS. The endpoint parameter has the following format:

protocol://hostname_of_EPAgent:port

protocol

Specifies the communication protocol that the EPAgent uses.

hostname_EPAgent

Specifies the hostname of the machine where the EPAgent is installed.

Default Value: localhost

port

Specifies the port number the EPAgent uses to communicate with the SPS. If you use TCP protocol, enter the network data port that is configured in EPAgent. If you use HTTP protocol, enter the HTTP port number that is configured in EPAgent.

Enable Data Monitoring

Perform the following steps to enable data monitoring:

Note: For information about configuring the CA Wily EPAgent, see the CA Wily Introscope Environment Performance Agent Guide.

1. Configure the CA Wily EPAgent to collect metrics from the SPS.
2. Configure the server.conf file by performing the following steps:
   1. Open the server.conf file and navigate to the metric-reporter section.
   2. Set the following value:

      enabled=yes
      

   3. (Optional) To monitor the agent instance metrics configured with CA SiteMinder® SPS, set the following value:

      enablemonitoring=yes
      

   4. Save the changes.
3. Configure the ACO for each Web Agent that is configured with the SPS.
4. Start the CA Wily EPAgent.
5. Restart the SPS.

Monitor Web Agents with the OneView Monitor

The CA SiteMinder® OneView monitor reports cache statistics and other information to the Policy Server, which administrators can use to analyze and fine-tune the Web Agent. You control the CA SiteMinder® OneView monitor with the following parameter:

EnableMonitoring

Specifies whether the agent sends monitoring information to the Policy Server.

Default: Yes.

To have the Web Agent use the CA SiteMinder® OneView Monitor, set the EnableMonitoring parameter to yes.

Note: For more information, see the Policy Server documentation.