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SeaChange Spot TSI

The SeaChange Spot TSI 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 TSI connector periodically polls a TSI server to retrieve status information about the health of the SeaChange services. This happens every 30 seconds by default, and is done using WMI, parsing of SeaChange log files over a Windows administrative share, and receiving SNMPv2c traps from Transport Stream Insertion Logfile Monitor (ref:9 Transport Stream Insertion Logfile Monitor). This data is used to verify the operation of the TSI server within a SeaChange Spot system.

Installation and configuration

Creation

This connector uses multiple connections.

It uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection to receive traps, and needs the following user information for this:

SNMP Connection:

  • IP address/host: The IP that traps will be received from.

SNMP Settings:

  • Port number: The port of the connected device, by default 161.
  • Get community string: N/A
  • Set community string: N/A

The connector also uses a serial connection, for which it needs the following user information:

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.

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 in 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.

Trap Monitor

This page displays a trap receiver table containing by default up to 500 of the latest received traps. This number can be adjusted using the Maximum Record Count parameter.

Notes

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