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.