One of the most important features planned for our next service pack is support for monitoring an SOA using Web Services (SOAP). Now what is SOA or Service oriented architecture ?
SOA is a flexible architecture that helps integrate reusable software components and form a more complex application and help meet complex business needs. The use of Web Services to achieve this is seen as the next most important challenge for CIOs.
These Web Services help join the various end points (services) and the combination of these services help form an SOA. With Applications Manager you could monitor these critical Web Services and ensure high uptime soon !
The popular methodology to implement Web Services is using SOAP over HTTP. With more and more business critical applications being integrated, monitoring of performance and availability of these Web Services are very critical.
With ManageEngine Applications Manager, you could configure SLAs and track high level availability of the Web Service. Application Admins can monitor the performance of these Web Services by configuring Applications Manager to execute “Operations” published by the Web Service. By specifying the WSDL, a simple wizard would guide you to configure operations that need to be invoked and specify arguments to the operations. In addition to this the ability to configure thresholds, view reports, SLAs, Root Cause Analysis etc will help application support personnel to pin point trouble points quickly.
Stay tuned ….
Gibu
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What if the system running Applications Manager restarts by itself and the Applications Manager service fails to start?
A quick workaround for this problem would be to make use of the Recovery actions for all Windows Services (available by default) like “Restart the Service” on first failure, and “Run a Program” on second failure. The default recovery action for Applications Manager Service is “Take No Action”, but this can be enabled manually and its a one time effort.
Here are the detailed steps to enable recovery actions for Applications Manager Service:
1. Open the Windows Services list. Right click ManageEngine Applications Manager service and select ‘Properties’
2. In the Recovery tab, select ‘Restart the Service’ option from the list box for First Failure. Specify the minutes after which the service has to be restarted.
3. Select ‘Run a program’ option for second failure. Browse and select the script/program from the system. An example of a typical script will send an email to the network administrator if the service fails to start for the second time.
Hope this tip helps you
Susan
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