April 2009 Archives

April 29, 2009
Monitoring the Cloud An interesting article by Bob Scheier about monitoring cloud computing systems. I was interviewed for this story but my comments didn't make it in. He makes a distinction between cloud providers of "infrastructure as a service", such as Amazon, Co-lo... MORE...
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April 14, 2009
Troubleshoot VA2 Events and Reactions Scenario: You have configured VA2 to monitor your Siebel Environment, and have configured Analsyis Rules and Reactions to automatically detect and correct Siebel problems. However, when you test the condition, you do not get the notification email or the reaction... MORE...
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April 10, 2009
Modifying Siebel Monitoring libraries with VA2 MMC debugger VA2 MMC is a GUI/configuration application that can run on any server, and connect to the VA2 environment via ODBC and standard network connetions. The recommended place to run the VA2 MMC for development tasks/rule configuration is on the same... MORE...
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April 09, 2009
Monitoring French Siebel Server The steps below are an outline of how you can change siebsrvrobj.pm. Any user of VA2 has access to this library. In this case, we will modify siebsrvrobj.pm so it is compatible with French output from a French Siebel srvrmgr.... MORE...
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April 08, 2009
Siebel Memory Leak A reader asks: "I have got a question about Siebel memory leak. We have constant problems with memory leaks in Siebel with the siebmtshmw.exe! I do monitor it every dag and then restart the workflow process manager and this helps.... MORE...
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