System Health Widget

The System Health widget is designed to help a systems administrator monitor the components of the EnterWorks system. Therefore, it is recommended this widget be added to the Administrator Dashboard.

System Health Widget

Configuring System Health Widget

To configure a System Health Widget, first configure a new blank Widget. For more information on adding and configuring new Widgets, see the EnterWorks 2020 User Guide.

Select the Widget Settings icon in the upper right of the new Widget’s Activity Bar. Note that a Widget’s Activity Bar will not be displayed unless the cursor is hovering over the top of the Widget.

A Widget Configuration window will appear. Select System Health from the Type dropdown list on the far right of the Widget Configuration window. The System Health Widget configuration options will appear.

Configuration Options for the System Health Widget

The configuration options for the System Health Widget allow you to select the status to be included in the widget’s display.

System

Options

Notes

EPIM

Tomcat Master

Monitor the process that manages the EnterWorks UI and API calls.

EPIM

Jboss Master

Monitor the process that coordinates background operations handled by the Jboss Slaves.

EPIM

Jboss Slaves

Monitor the processes that perform the background processes (e.g., imports, exports, validations, mass edits, etc.).

EPIM

Database

Monitor the connection to the EPIM database.

EPIM

Job Monitor

Monitor the Job Monitor, reporting the number of queued, active, and recently failed jobs.

EPIM

Application File System Access

Verify the file system is accessible and is not out of disk space for Tomcat.

EPIM

Web File System Access

Verify each of the Jboss Slave processes can access the file system and are not out of disk space.

EPX

Tomcat

Monitor the EPX Tomcat process

EPX

Jboss

Monitor the JBoss process that orchestrates the movement of work items from activity to activity.

EPX

BIC Manager

Monitor the EPX BIC Manager, which processes all automatic activities in workflows.

EPX

EPX User

The EPX user that is used to launch a work item on the Ping-Enable workflow. Needs to be a member of the EnableWorkflowInitiators group

EPX

EPX Password

Password for the EPX user.

EPX

Workflow Process Name

The name of a simple EPX workflow to be used to verify work items are processing. The system health refresh causes a work item to be created on this process. The work item is created using the specified EPX User and EPX Password.

EPX

Starting Point Activity Name

The name of the starting point activity in the workflow identified by Workflow Process Name on which to create the work item.

EPX

End Point Activity Name

The name of the ending point activity in the workflow identified by Workflow Process Name. The system health refresh checks this activity to verify that the work item created on the starting point activity above arrives within a few seconds, which indicates EPX processing is working correctly.

EPX

File System

Verify that the EPX process can update the file system and has not run out of disk space.

Enable

Enable Web

If IIS is configured, monitor the connectivity to IIS

Edit the configuration options as desired. Click Apply to save the changes to the widget and close theWidget Configuration window. Click Cancel to close the Widget Configuration window without saving the changes.

To add the System Health Widget to your default Dashboard, click the Save Layout button on the Dashboard’s Activity Bar.