Monitoring Secure Connector

You can use the Monitoring tool to check the status of a Secure Connector (SC1) and provide an alternate Toggle Secure Connector (SC2) in case of Secure Connector (SC1) stops working. In case of failure of SC1, specifying SC2 will switch all the projects using SC1 to use SC2 to provide continuous availability of Cast Iron projects.

Before you begin

  • Toggle Secure Connector (backup connector) should be running on the same Cast Iron system before starting this tool.
  • All the Cast Iron projects using a secure connector, should have Secure Connector Name configuration property as "secure_connector_name".

About this task

Use the Monitoring tool to configure and check the status of the Secure Connector.

Procedure

  1. Start the executable jar file from SC_INSTALL_ROOT/monitor/agent_monitor.jar by giving the command:

    java -jar agent_monitor.jar

    Note: You can copy and run the agent_monitor.jar on any server machine which has access to Cast Iron system.
    It will bring up the Secure Connector Monitoring Tool screen once the jar started successfully.
  2. In the Secure Connector Monitoring Tool screen specify the following information:
    1. Specify the Cast Iron Live Hostname or Cast Iron Appliance IP address for the Hostname.
    2. Specify the Username and Password for authenticating to the appliance.
    3. Specify the Secure Connector Name (SC1) currently used by the Cast Iron projects and Toggle Secure Connector Name (SC2) which will backup to SC1.
  3. Click the Start button to start the monitoring tool.

Results

The Monitoring tool will keep checking the status of SC1 every 30 seconds, and if its status is Stopped, it will switch all Cast Iron projects to SC2. Once it has deployed on projects on SC2, it will keep monitoring the status of SC2 and it will switch it back to SC1 in case SC2 goes down. It goes recursive.



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