Automatic Discovery of Servers v9
Use the Auto Discovery
dialog to instruct a PEM agent to locate database servers that reside on a monitored system, and add a binding that allows the agent to monitor the selected server.
To enable auto discovery for a specific agent, you must enable the Server Auto Discovery
probe. To access the Manage Probes
tab, highlight the name of a PEM agent in the PEM client tree control, and select Manage Probes...
from the Management
menu. When the Manage Probes tab opens, confirm that the slider control in the Enabled?
column is set to Yes
.
To open the Auto Discovery
dialog, highlight the name of a PEM agent in the PEM client tree control, and select Auto Discovery...
from the Management
menu.
When the Auto Discovery
dialog opens, the Discovered Database Servers
box will display a list of servers that are not currently monitored by a PEM agent. Check the box next to a server name to display information about the server in the Server Connection Details
box, and provide any missing information to bind the server to the currently selected agent in the Agent Connection Details
box.
Use the Select All
button to select the box next to all of the displayed servers, or Unselect All
to unselect all of the boxes to the left of the server names.
The fields in the Server Connection Details
box provide information about the server that PEM will monitor:
- Accept or modify the name of the monitored server in the
Name
field. The specified name will be displayed in the tree control of the PEM client. - Use the
Server group
drop-down listbox to select the server group under which the server will be displayed in the PEM client tree control. - Use the
Host name/address
field to specify the IP address of the monitored server. - The
Port
field displays the port that is monitored by the server; this field may not be modified. - Provide the name of the service in the
Service ID
field. Please note that the service name must be provided to enable some PEM functionality. - By default, the
Maintenance database
field indicates that the selected server uses apostgres
maintenance database. Customize the content of theMaintenance database
field for your installation.
The fields in the Agent Connection Details
box specify the properties that the PEM agent will use when connecting to the server:
- The
Host
field displays the IP address that will be used for the PEM agent binding. - The
Username
field displays the name that will be used by the PEM agent when connecting to the selected server. - The
Password
field displays the password associated with the specified user name. - Use the drop-down listbox in the
SSL mode
field to specify your SSL connection preferences.
When you've finished specifying the connection properties for the servers that you are binding for monitoring, click the OK
button to save the properties. Click Cancel
to exit without preserving any changes.
The dialog shown above displays the values required to bind an instance of Advanced Server for monitoring by PEM.