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Is there such thing as a Notes Agent Monitor?
Today I have a question for the community. Actually, the question came from my boss with my current customer. As always, the simplest questions seem the hardest to resolve :-). The problem is: there are a number of agents that should run on a daily basis, but every now and then, it happens that something goes wrong (f.e. a design update with an id with insufficient rights) and the agent don’t run.
Of course it is possible to do some agent logging, send mails if an agent ran or gave errors, but is it possible to do the opposite? Receiving messages when an agent DIDN’T run? Are there any agent monitor tools or techniques? Or am I missing something very obvious here? Any ideas?
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Our company Teamstudio has been running for a long time and are always keeping a finger on the pulse with the latest market requirements. We are working on this very problem you mention above and are in testing for something called Agent Registry. You may or may not know a person called ROCKY OLIVER. Please google him and go to his blog, there you can ask him direct about this product. Hope this helps
July 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Hi Martin
I think it might be worth us having a quick conversation.
Cheers
July 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am
There is a free solution available via OpenNTF
http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Agent%20Monitor%20(DAF)
July 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
We use GSX Monitor to do agent monitoring. I believe DDM also has the ability to do this.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
There are a number of agent monitoring solutions in the Lotus Solutions Catalog. Look at Essential Agent Master from RPR Wyatt - http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/lotus/details?catalog.label=1WP1001AF
July 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Martin,
There is a nice all-purpose utility called PowerTools from Help Software http://www.helpsoft.com
Not sure if it has notification, but would be good for problem diagnosis.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Martin, is this for customer I think it is?
All the tools you need are built in Notes/Domino, no need to get any external help or tools.
Shoot me an email.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Martin,
You want EAM, Essential Agent Manager which does everything you are looking for and is from rprwyatt.
GSX does not actively monitor agents nor fix them automatically.
Contact me for more or rprwyatt.com.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Why would you not just use DDM to monitor for agent manager messages? When an agent doesn’t run due to permissions, doesn’t that echo to the log?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:24 am
There is an OpenNTF project which I made called Database Alert which will let you specify an agent and after any number of minutes you will get an Email alert if the agent has not run.
Thomas
July 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hi all,
Thank you very much for all suggestions, I really appreciate this. In a separate post I’ll tell more about the final choice we made in this.
Regards,
Martin
July 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Teamstudio is about to release our solution in this area, and it is called Agent Registry. It does everything you want, plus more. We can also monitor and report on agents running in REAL TIME, we can give you a great overall view of what agents are running when on every server, we can help you quickly find “bad” and “rogue” agents, and so much more.
If you’re interested, shoot me an email (rock AT teamstudio DOT com).
Best regards,
–Rock
July 16th, 2008 at 11:45 am
You can look at log.nsf and search for Miscellaneous Events documents.
Form=”Event”
then look in “Eventlist” field for
stuf like:
09/07/2008 21:28:39 Error in Agent ‘replicaCheck’ calling script library ‘DXNotesContentProcessing’: Script library signer ‘CN=Test1/O=NotesNinjas’ does not have proper rights
There are a few free templates out there, or just build one yourself, or get me to for a small fee.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
@13 - Since Event Monitoring and DDM can be configured to look for strings, you can monitor for “Error in Agent” and take action based on that. There’s tons of workflow built in to all those tools.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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