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ProAct Admin™ - Automated Assistance For System Administration.
It's imperative that a well rounded design for a transaction processing architecture includes tools that assist system administrators observe and correct behavior that may be detrimental to system performance. In addition, these tools should allow the administrators to recognize these conditions in real-time and react accordingly. ProAct Admin™ is a set of tools intended to do just that. Since the back-end-server-processes that interoperate to form the TranScend Processing Architecture (TPA) are implemented as Services (faceless server programs), the next question asked becomes; “How do I know what the system is really doing?” To allow that visibility and to assist in a proactive approach, two additional “back end client programs” have been included in the application and described below.
- API Trace - The API Trace utility can be extremely useful as a developer’s assistant as a way to monitor performance of the TranScend™ components. This is because the API Trace utility provides a “window” into the system’s activities in response to any event injected into the system. More specifically, as a developer is testing their code to communicate with TranScend™, they can observe the system’s response to the data being sent to and from the system. This can be a powerful debugging aid for those developers.
The API Trace utility can be equally powerful as a way to monitor performance of the TranScend™ components. This is because all the server processes can all be started in a manner that allows them to generate “trace messages” as they are running. The API Trace utility can display these trace messages as they are generated and system administrators can witness the activity related to the issuance of these commands in real-time.
- System Console - The System Console offers the most comprehensive view into the operations of TranScend™. The System Console connects to the Log Server as an “observer of the log stream” which means that each message received in the log will be “echoed” to the System Console. This allows the System Console to have a “real time view” into the operation of the system as it is running. As each command message is processed, the Gateway Server will generate a “timing record” for that transaction. The time record shows the total processing time for that request, and as complete a break down of possible of the message processing time for each system component that was involved in processing that command. Finally, the System Console interacts with the Control Server to get a view of the “up time status” thus providing the system administrator with a way to observe the state of all the system components that compose the TranScend Processing Architecture (TPA).
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