Component Monitor 

Use

You can use the component monitor to identify wrongly configured objects of the following technical components:

·        Filters

·        Repository managers

·        Repository services

·        Global services

 

The status of an object is displayed using a colored symbol. The color indicates whether objects are incorrectly configured. A message text helps you to find errors and correct the configuration of the objects in question.

 

Features

On the left-hand side of the iView, a tree that contains the various components is displayed. If you select a component, all objects within the component are displayed in a list on the right-hand side of the iView.

 

Entries in the Component Monitor

Entry	Description
Name	Name of the component/object.
Status	Status of the component/object. There are the following statuses: Running: The object is running without errors. Startup failed: The object could not be started, for example, because a remote server could not be reached, or due to memory problems. Stopped: The object was stopped.
Changed	Time at which the configuration of the object was last changed.
Startup Error	Description of the error that occurred when the object was started.
Configuration Error	Description of the error that occurs in the configuration of the object. An error may already exist in the initial configuration, or it may have arisen after the configuration was changed.
Next Automatic Restart	Time at which the system automatically restarts the object. The components are automatically restarted to reactivate repositories that could not be started because the remote server couldn’t be reached, for example. The file system, Web, and WebDav repository managers currently support this function.

 

Differently colored symbols display the status of an object.

Symbols and Statuses

Symbol	Status
Green circle	The configuration of the object has no errors. The object is able to function properly.
Yellow triangle	The configuration of the object has errors. The object is running using the last valid configuration.
Red square	The object is not available. This may be due to configuration errors or because the object could not be started for other reasons (for example, due to an unavailable remote server).

 

A message text gives you more information about the error.

 

Activities

To call up the component monitor, choose System Administration ® Monitoring ® Knowledge Management ® Component Monitor.

If a component has objects that are either wrongly configured or that couldn’t be started, a yellow or red symbol is already displayed in the tree view. Open the components affected, and read the error messages for any objects with errors. You correct errors by calling up the configuration of the object (for example, repository manager) and correcting the errors there.

 

Note that you do not always have full access for objects in the components. For example, an external Web server whose content you want to store in a Web repository may be unavailable. If this is the case, you cannot correct the error as you have no access to the external Web server.

 

Example

The following message is displayed beneath the Repository Manager component:

 

runtime > Repository Managers

Name	Status	Changed
dbfs	startup failed	01.08.03 11:37:47
Configuration Error: folder 'C:/share_dbfs' does not exist

 

The dbfs repository manager could not be started because the C:/share_dbfsdirectory could not be found.

Check the configuration of the repository manager, and make sure that you specified a valid path. If necessary, correct the path specification.