Visibility

The Transfer CFT tracking feature in Central Governance enables you to view and react accordingly to transfer-related events that occur in your system. Central Governance provides a set of graphical displays that you can use to generate business and technical views of transfer processes.

Using the information provided by Central Governance, you can interpret and react to event-related information. For example, a Middleware Manager can use the monitoring interface to be alerted to and act on a flow that is in error.

Overview

When you modify and deploy changes in the Sentinel configuration, Central Governance pushes the changes to the selected Transfer CFT.

How it works

Transfer CFT has a native agent that generates messages containing event processing data. The agent sends the messages, according to the configuration definitions, to the monitoring environment. Central Governance extracts this event tracking data and displays it at Flows > Flows Report or Flows > Monitoring in the Central Governance user interface.

Main and backup servers

Your configuration can use either a single main server, where all of the transfer events data is stored, or you can incorporate a backup server in your system. The backup server in Central Governance switches to the secondary server should the primary server fail. Note that the backup server functions exclusively as a failover server, and does not replicate the information on the primary server.

About the external server

An external server is not part of the Central Governance system. However, this server may be hosted on the same machine, or separately from Central Governance or your Transfer CFT.

About buffers

There is one buffer per Transfer CFT. This buffer is used to store events when Sentinel is not available. You can define that Transfer CFT stop when the buffer reaches threshold, as described in the parameters section below.

Fields

The user interface indicates default values.

Enable

Indicates the use of Transfer CFT transfer event tracking, which includes flow monitoring and log file information.

Disabling this option means that not only is there no Transfer CFT event tracking, but also that both the main and backup server options are disabled.

Servers

Enable SSL/TLS

Specify if the connection to the monitoring server is secured.

Main server

Indicates the primary monitoring server. Select Internal to use the Sentinel configured with Central Governance or External to use another external Sentinel server for monitoring.

If you select the External server option, you are prompted to enter the host and port for the server.

• Host: Host name or IP address of the main monitoring server.
• Port: Port for the main monitoring server.

Backup server

Indicates the use of a backup server for monitoring events if the main server is down. This server is used only if the main server is unavailable.

None indicates there is no backup server.

If you select the External server option, you are prompted to enter the host and port for the server.

• Host: Host name or IP address of the backup monitoring server.
• Port: Port for the backup monitoring server.

Certificate

If Enable SSL/TLS is set to Yes, and the Main or the Backup server is External, you must browse a certificate and set the certificate alias.

Click Browse to select a public-key certificate file in the DER or PEM format, or a public certificate chain file in the P7B (PKCS#7) format. A certificate is required to authenticate the Visibility server. When a certificate is selected, click Display to show certificate details. Specify an alias for the certificate.

Events

Transfer steps reported

Indicates the Transfer CFT events to send to the Central Governance monitoring.

• All: Transfer CFT sends monitoring events each time a transfer enters a new step, such as ready, on hold, transferred, and so on. Additionally Transfer CFT sends an event at each sync point, as well as at the frequency defined in the parameter Transfer status frequency.
• First and last: Transfer CFT sends events to the Central Governance monitoring when a new transfer request is made and when this transfer is completed, either successfully or in error. When this option is selected, no events are sent for any of the intermediate steps. When you select this setting, the Transfer status frequency parameter is disabled.
• None: No transfer events are sent to the Central Governance monitoring, and the Transfer status frequency parameter is disabled.

Transfer status frequency

Indicate how often Transfer CFT sends events to the monitoring server.

The parameter defines the time value to use when the Transfer steps reported option when it is set to All. The value set here defines how often Transfer CFT sends events related to an ongoing transfer, and includes updated information such as the amount of data transferred, the percentage of completion, and so on.

Minimum log level

Minimum severity level of the messages to display.

For example, if you select Warning, Error and Fatal messages also are displayed.

Buffer capacity

Maximum number of messages in the monitoring buffer.

When buffer is full

Indicates the action when the buffer is full.

• Drop new messages: All messages that exceed the buffer capacity are lost.
• Shut down: When the buffer is full, Transfer CFT shuts down and cannot continue to perform transfers. This requires user intervention to correct the issue and restart Transfer CFT. Use of this option might cause an interruption in your production environment, notably if you have an extended period of unavailability.