Common Elements on Targets Homepages

This section describes the following common elements that appear on PeopleSoft target home pages:

  • Monitoring

  • Control

  • Job Activity

  • Information Publisher Reports

  • Performance

  • Configuration Management

  • Domain Management

  • Log Management

  • Configuration

  • Compliance

  • Target Setup

  • Target Information

Note: Not all elements will appear on every target homepage. For example, some elements appear only for database targets, while others appear only for Process Scheduler targets.

This table lists the common elements that are available for monitoring targets.

Field or Control

Definition
All Metrics

Click this to display all of the metrics defined for the target.
Metrics and Collections Settings

Click this to display the metric thresholds and collection interval for the target.
Metrics Collection Errors

Click this to view the details about the errors encountered while obtaining target metrics. This helps to get the detail of the metric that do not represent the performance of the target accurately.
Status History

Click this to get information about target outages. This information is essential for troubleshooting target related incidents.

For more information about status history, see Oracle® Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Plug-in Release 13.5.1.1.0, “Discovering and Monitoring Oracle Business Intelligence Instance and Oracle Essbase”, Viewing Target Status and Availability History.
Incident Manager

Click this to get details about the various events, related to the PeopleSoft target, that negatively impact any hardware or software component. These events require user action. The details provided by this section, such as the incident summary, severity, target, target type, and so on, are essential for troubleshooting.
Alert History

Click this to displays a complete alert history of the target.
Blackouts

Click this to displays the blackouts that have been defined for the target history. You can also set up a blackout from this page.

Click this to create or end blackouts.

Blackouts allow Enterprise Manager users to suspend management data collection activity on one or more managed targets. For example, administrators use blackouts to prevent data collection during scheduled maintenance or emergency operations. By blacking out the server, alert notifications are not sent.

Access this to search for a particular job and retrieve job details such as the owner, status, scheduled start time, and so on. From this page, you can perform target job administration tasks, such as creating, editing, suspending, and resuming a job.

Access this page to get the summary of the Service Level Agreement Compliance, Actual Service Level Achieved, Key Performance and Usage Metrics, and Status of Key Components.

Access the Performance page from the PeopleSoft application domain list.

The Performance page gives you a snapshot of the performance of the domain by displaying a graphical view of the domain's:

Note: This is an example from PS Application Server Domain Target.

  • Host CPU usage.

  • Host memory usage.

  • Disk input/output utilization.

  • Average number of queued processes per domain server process.

  • PSAPPSRV handler counts.

  • Total number of Tuxedo connections.

Use the View Data dropdown list to modify the time frame of the display. For example, you can view the last 24 hours, last week, last month, and so on.

If the PUBSUB (Integration Broker server processes) feature is not active, the graphs for Broker, Subscriber, and Publisher are blank.

The CPU and memory utilization shown on the PS Application Server Domain Performance page includes more detailed information than that on the homepage.

The frequency of the disk I/O (read/write frequency) indicates how much the application server is caching—this value may reflect the performance of the application. It also includes writing to log files.

The amount of queuing on the main processes of a PS Application Server Domain indicates if the defined handlers are sufficient for the domain. Larger queues cause a slow response on application functions, and this could indicate that more handlers or domains are required to handle user requests.

Note: A statement of no data found may appear in the graphic region. This occurs because there is no target data available in Enterprise Manager when this graph is rendered.

For more information about changing the view of performance data, see Enterprise Manager documentation.

This table lists the common elements that are available for managing configuration of targets.

Field or Control

Definition
Configure Domain

Click this to access the Configure Domain page to edit domain configurations.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: System and Server Administration, "Working With Domain Configurations"

  • If this domain is up and the Allow dynamic changes property is selected, only dynamic fields can be edited. All others are disabled.

  • If this domain is down, all fields are enabled.

    From the Configure Domain page, you can select Configure Environment Variables to edit settings that establish the connection from the domain to the application database. Depending on the database type of the domain, there are required, default environment settings shown for which you need to provide the appropriate values.

  • Configuration details region.

    • Move the mouse over the information icon to display a description of the field.

    • If the dynamic icon is present, it means that the field is dynamic and a restart of the domain is not necessary if there were changes (and if the Allow dynamic changes option is set).

    • Enable check boxes display for some fields to accommodate any commented out properties within the configuration files. If desired, you can enable the commented out properties by selecting the check box.

See Setting Environment Variables.
Create Like Domain

Click this to import a domain from another PS Application Server Domain or PS Process Scheduler Domain. You can create a like domain only within the same host referencing the same PS_HOME.
Copy Configuration

Click this to copy configuration files from an existing domain to another domain within the same host. This overwrites the configuration files on the managed host.

Note: This feature does not work on domains that are currently running.
Discover Database

Click this to discover the Database associated with this target. This menu provides an alternate way to discover the database target, if they did not get discovered in the main discovery workflow.

See Understanding the Discovery Process.

This table lists the common elements that are available for domain management of targets.

Field or Control

Definition
Start Domain

Click this to start an individual target.

A serial boot starts server processes in a sequential order, with one process beginning to start after the previous process has completely started.
Start Domain (Parallel)

Click this to start server processes in parallel. This ensures shorter boot duration.
Stop Domain

Click this to shut down the domain and is equivalent to the normal shutdown option in PSADMIN.
Stop Domain (Forced)

Click this to stop an individual target. A forced shutdown is a non-quiescent shutdown that immediately terminates all of the processes in the domain. Use forced shutdown only when a Bulletin Board Liaison (BBL) process encounter errors and cannot be shut down normally.
Delete Domain

Click this to delete the domain on the host and remove it from Enterprise Manager.

Note: The domain must be down before you can delete.

Access the Log Management Page to:

  • View log files.

  • Search for strings in a log file.

  • Add and remove log patterns.

Viewing Log File

Image: View Log File page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the View Log File page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

View Log File page

If you have searched for a string, you can also click the link by the line number or the string (in the results area) to display the View Log File page.

The initial view contains 500 lines and the string is the last one shown. Click Previous, Next, Top, or Bottom to navigate through the file.

The log filename is also available within the search results area.

Field or Control

Definition
Refresh

Click Refresh to refresh the screen.
Export to file

Click Export to File to export the log file. You can open the file in the Notepad or save the file to your workstation.

Searching for Strings in a Log File

To search for a string in a log file:

  1. Click the file you want to search, using the radio button in the Select column.

  2. Scroll to the bottom of the Logs page.

  3. Enter the desired search string in the Search String edit box.

  4. Click Search.

  5. In the Search Results Cloud, review the instances of the search string found in the log file.

    Instances of the search string appear by line in the Search Results Cloud. The log information displayed includes the line number in the log file in which the string is found, the date and time, the server process involved, and the phrase or sentence containing the string.

    Image: Logs page: Searching Log Files

    This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Logs page: searching log files.

    Search Result

Setting up Log Management

On the Logs page, click the Log Management Setup link to display the Log Management Setup page where you can define the log file types to manage for each target. You can add and remove log file types as needed. From this page you can also schedule purge and archive jobs.

Image: Log Patterns page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Log Patterns page.

Log Patterns page

This table lists the common elements that are available for configuration targets.

Field or Control

Definition
Last Collected

Click this to display the latest configuration data. The Last Collected Configuration link enables you to view from a central location key configuration metric and parameters for the target.
Compare

Click this to compare configurations of multiple nodes. This helps to identify performance bottlenecks caused by configuration changes.
Comparison Job Activity

Click this to monitor comparison job status.
Search

Click this to define the search criteria for configuration details across targets.
History

Click this to display the preserved configurations.
Save

Click this to save the configuration for a given target.
Saved

Click this to display the list of saved configurations for a given target.
Topology

Click this to display the topology configuration of the target type.

This table lists the common elements that are available for viewing compliance of targets.

Field or Control

Definition
Results

Click this to evaluate the compliance of PeopleSoft targets and systems for configuration, security, and storage. In addition, compliance results provide advice on how to change configuration to bring the PeopleSoft targets and systems into compliance.
Standard Associations

Click this to associate the compliance standard for a target.
Real-time Observations

Click this to define a search criteria to query the compliance observations in the real time.

This table lists the common elements that are available for setting up targets.

Field or Control

Definition
Monitoring Configuration

Click this to display target properties such as domain name, PS_HOME, and PeopleTools version.
Administrator Access

Click this to display access type and the privilege associated with the target. You can add an administrator to a target.
Remove Target

Click this to remove the current target from the system.
Add to Group

Click this to add a target to a group.
Properties

Click this to view and edit target properties.