13.6 Detecting problems within Performance Management
Performance Management provides a health check function for detecting Performance Management problems. The health check function monitors the operating status of the monitoring agent as well as the host on which the monitoring agent is running, and displays the monitoring results on PFM - Web Console as a change in the status of the monitoring agent.
The automatic PFM service restart function enables you to automatically restart the PFM service if the PFM service has stopped abnormally for some reason and to periodically restart the PFM service.
To monitor the operating status of the monitoring agent by the health check function and automatically restart the PFM service by the automatic PFM service restart function, you use the status management function that enables you to check the detailed status of Performance Management services. Therefore, the version of the target monitoring agent must support the status management function and the status management function must be enabled. There are no prerequisite conditions for monitoring the operating status of the host.
You can also detect Performance Management problems by using JP1/Base (integrated system monitoring product) to monitor the Performance Management log files. The system administrator can then detect a problem, identify its cause, and take appropriate action for recovery.
For details about detection of Performance Management problems, see the chapter that describes detection of Performance Management problems in the JP1/Performance Management User's Guide.