3.1 Monitoring Your Synchronizer System

Each component of your Synchronizer system can be separately monitored in Synchronizer Web Admin, as described in:

In addition, you can try the new preview feature, the Global Status Monitor, which allows you to monitor many aspects of all three Synchronizer components in one place. The Global Status Monitor is disabled by default.

3.1.1 Enabling the Global Status Monitor

  1. In Synchronizer Web admin, click Global Status Monitor Global Status Monitor icon to display the instructions for enabling the Global Status Monitor.

    Initially, the current section of the documentation displays in your browser so that you can enable the Global Status Monitor.

  2. As root in a terminal window, enter the following command:

    /opt/novell/datasync/previewfeature.sh --monitor --action enable

  3. Restart the Synchronizer services.

  4. Refresh the Synchronizer Web Admin browser window to replace the link to the documentation with the link to the Global Status Monitor.

  5. Continue with Using the Global Status Monitor.

3.1.2 Using the Global Status Monitor

  1. In Synchronizer Web admin, click Global Status Monitor Global Status Monitor icon to display the Global Status Monitor.

    Global Status Monitor

    The Global Status Monitor provides three types of information:

    • Status box: Lists the Synchronizer components (the GroupWise Connector, the Mobility Connector, and the server where they are running) and the participants in the synchronization process (users, devices, POAs, and connections to data sources).

      Click a Synchronizer component or synchronization participant to display health or status information in the Listing box.

    • Performance Indicators box: Gathers statistics from the Synchronizer components into useful groupings.

      Click a performance indicator to display the individual statistics in the Listing box.

    • Listing box: Lists the statistics for each Synchronizer component, synchronization participant, or performance indicator.

      Click the graph for any statistic to view the statistic over time.

  2. Click Help in any box for a detailed explanation of the statistics.

  3. (Conditional) If necessary, adjust the size of your browser window so that the Help box displays to the right of the Performance Indicators box.

3.1.3 Disabling the Global Status Monitor

Disabling the Global Status Monitor deletes the monitoring data that it has collected.

  1. As root in a terminal window, enter the following command:

    /opt/novell/datasync/previewfeature.sh --monitor --action disable

  2. Restart the Synchronizer services.