OpenMaster SLM Application Governor for BEA Tuxedo

Dependable transactions

BEA Tuxedo is a transaction monitor operating in the open systems environment and able to manage one or many target systems. BEA provides a dedicated supervisory application: BEA Manager.

However in the complex environment common to all middleware, many user organizations feel the need to add a higher level of management:

• If a failure occurs, its cause could be either in the transaction processing environment itself, or in the underlying layers: system, network, databases, Internet infrastructure,... Being able to monitor all these components together speeds problem resolution
• For mission-critical applications, it is preferable to be able to prevent failures before they occur. OpenMaster SLM can automatically trigger alarms when parameters reach threshold values (typically, when queues exceed a stipulated length or databases fill more than 70% off the space available) allowing you to make the appropriate changes before there is a noticeable effect on user service levels
• Comprehensive, pertinent reports, covering all related IT components, help you to extrapolate configuration requirements and keep performance tuned to planned business growth

Application Governor for BEA Tuxedo provides high-level monitoring, fault management and administration:

• Application Governor for BEA Tuxedo represents the systems where BEA Tuxedo runs in the management tree, indicating the specific role of each system (master, backup, other)
• These system icons are animated by alarms. When an incident occurs, the system icon turns orange or red. The alarms log the details about the impacted instance and the nature of the failure.
• You can click on the BEA Tuxedo application instance in the tree to access a map hierarchy, allowing quick checking or a more in-depth investigation.
• For each object in a map, you can display immediately all the information available in its MIB (Management Information Base)
• If intervention is needed, you can launch any available administration action from any Application Governor map.
• It's easy to navigate between the various maps, typically to compare values on master and backup systems, or to check related network components, systems or databases

The standard maps delivered with Application Governor for BEA Tuxedo cover most BEA Tuxedo functional areas:

• Machines
• Network groups and network processes
• Server groups
• Servers
• Services, requests and messages
• Queues
• Qspaces
• Clients and workstations
• Access controls
• Data routing
• Event subscriptions
• Conversations and transactions