You can monitor several aspects of your WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance, including the status of configuration changes though the view, and the performance of your data grids though the view in the user interface.
Before you begin
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Monitoring the startup status of the appliance
You can monitor the startup status of the appliance. Monitoring the startup status can help you determine and troubleshoot issues.- Monitoring data grids in the user interface
You can use the charting capabilities of WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance to view the overall performance of the data grids in your environment. - Monitoring activities with tasks
You can use tasks to monitor the progress of administrative changes, such as adding appliances to the collective. - Monitoring with the xscmd utility
With the xscmd utility, you can display textual information about the data grids that are running on your appliance. - Monitoring with CSV files
Monitoring data is automatically written to CSV files. These CSV files can contain information about the servers, map, or data grid. - Monitoring with the xsadmin utility
With the xsadmin utility, you can format and display textual information about the data grids that are running on your WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance. The sample utility provides a method for parsing and discovering current deployment data, and can be used as a foundation for writing custom utilities. - Monitoring the health of the environment
The message center provides an aggregated view of event notifications for log and first-failure data capture (FFDC) messages. You can view these event notifications with the message center in the web console, the xscmd utility,the health log files, the HTTP command interface, or programmatically with MBeans. - Monitoring with Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP)
With Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) support, you can monitor the status of a IBM® WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance as a part of a larger group of systems in a data center. SNMP monitoring enhances your ability to notice system issues quickly and then responding to them promptly. - Configuring remote logging
You can enable remote logging to save log entries on a remote server outside of the appliance. Remote logging can be helpful when you must set a detailed debugging log level to help isolate a problem or monitor behavior over a long time period.