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SeaChange Spot SDB

The SeaChange Spot SDB makes it possible to monitor a Microsoft server, process log files and create very elaborate filters to generate alarms based on the lines of this logging.

About

The Spot SDB connector periodically polls an SDB server to retrieve status information about the health of the SeaChange services, using WMI, SQL, and parsing of SeaChange log files over a Windows administrative share. By default, this is done every 30 seconds. This data is used to verify the operation of the SDB server within a SeaChange Spot system.

Installation and configuration

Creation

This connector uses a serial connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SERIAL CONNECTION:

  • IP address/host: The polling IP of the server you wish to poll with WMI.
  • IP port: The IP port of the device - Not required.
  • Bus address: The bus address of the device - Not required.

Usage

General Page

This page provides a quick overview of the system status. This includes parameters such as the Total Processor Load, Total Processes, Memory parameters. The page also contains the WMI Credentials necessary for addressing the server through WMI, and Remote Credentials in order to access log files over a network. The general page also contains the MPEG Connection String necessary to retrieve data from the MPEG Database.

Note:

  • If all log files will be present on the local server, then the Name can be left blank.
  • If files are retrieved from a remote server, it is important that the same credentials work on the local server and all remote servers.

Log File

This page provides an overview of the configured filters used to process log files, and the current alarm state of each filter. You can add a filter by means of the Add Filter page button.

The Export/Import page button leads to a page where the current configuration can be exported into a .csv file or where configurations can be imported from .csv files. For this to work, make sure that the Path is filled with a valid folder path, which ends with the name and extension of the file.

Task Manager

This page displays the Task Manager for this server. It contains process identifiers, CPU and memory data. By default, the connector will not remove deleted processes from the table. However, you can change this by toggling the Auto Clear button.

Service List

This page displays a list of all Services present in the server. This includes two columns that combine service state/status with the start mode.

Network Interface

This page contains a table listing all network interfaces present in the system and their Utilisation, Tx, Rx and Total Speed.

Note: If some rows do not get filled in, a manual description will have to be set, chosen from the possible discreet values. Sliding open the very last hidden column (Virtual Key) in the table can give you more information as to what description to link to the specific interface.

Disk Info

This page lists all Disks present in the server, indicating their Name, Size, Free Space and Usage .

MPEG

This page contains an MPEG Table with all requested data from the MPEG Database, such as the rowcount and allocated, used and unused space for each table in the database.

Notes

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