13.3.12 Monitoring multiple sites

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Site monitoring server

A site monitoring server on which JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/Base are installed is required for monitoring the monitored servers at each site.

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Site monitoring server

Monitored server

The target servers are monitored remotely from the site monitoring server. The integrated monitoring server cannot monitor remote servers that are subject to monitoring. If you use an agent configuration (JP1/Base is installed on a monitored server) for monitoring, configure a FQDN-format event server on the monitored server. For details, see the JP1/Base User's Guide.

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Integrated monitoring server

Site monitoring server

Set up an environment in such a manner that the integrated monitoring server and the site monitoring server can communicate with each other.

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Integrated monitoring server

Site monitoring server

The host names and IP addresses of the integrated monitoring server and the site monitoring servers must be fixed and unique within the system configuration. If you change the host name and IP address of a site monitoring server, you must check and, if necessary, revise settings such as filter conditions for JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/Base, and restart services. For details, see 2.2 Tasks necessary when a host name is changed and 2.3 Tasks necessary when an IP address is changed in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Administration Guide.

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Monitored server

The host names and IP addresses of monitored servers must be unique within the same site.

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Monitored server

The host name of a monitored server must be fixed. If you change the host name of a monitored server, you must change the host information registered in the IM Configuration Management database. For details see, 3.1.5 Changing the attributes of host information in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.

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Integrated monitoring server

Site monitoring server

Monitored server

If you use DHCP to connect to monitored servers, configure the environment so that the site monitoring server can dynamically resolve IP addresses from the monitored servers' host names by using, for example, DNS. Note that there is no need for the integrated monitoring server to resolve monitored servers' host names. If you use DHCP to manage the IP addresses of an integrated monitoring server and site monitoring servers, set the expiration of IP address allocation to infinite so that the IP addresses will never change. For details, see 13.4.1 Host names and IP addresses.

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Monitored server

When you change the IP address of a monitored server, first stop the monitoring of that monitored server, change the IP address, and then restart the monitoring. The same applies when an IP address is reallocated by DHCP. You must also ensure that the site monitoring server can resolve the new IP address by using (for example) DNS.

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Employing a system hierarchy (configuring the integrated monitoring server and site monitoring servers in a hierarchy) by using IM Configuration Management

IM Configuration Management of the integrated monitoring server cannot manage monitored servers.

Do not set a site monitoring server at a site as a base manager for monitoring multiple sites.

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System configuration (remote monitoring of servers by a site monitoring server)

For remote monitoring, the supported log file size and the maximum number of Windows event logs that can be acquired differ from those values for an agent configuration. For details, see 7.6 Managing remotely monitored hosts.

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Manipulating monitored servers

The integrated monitoring server cannot manipulate monitored servers by using, for example, commands, because the integrated monitoring server cannot identify the monitored servers individually.

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Monitoring monitored servers by using the Intelligent Integrated Management Base

The integrated monitoring server cannot uniquely identify monitored servers having the same name but installed on different sites. These servers can therefore not be monitored as different nodes in a tree view.