Monitoring Replication

The information of any Repstance's Processes are available on the main dashboard and divided into three sections:

  • General Information about the Repstance product, number of Repstance processes and Server usage details (click “Show more” to expand this section)
Web UI dashboard: Repstance Processes Info expanded with product info, process counts and server usage
 
Web UI dashboard: capture and apply process cards with status, counters and the More, Edit and Stop buttons
 
  • Information about process failures (Incident Management)
Web UI dashboard: Incident Management section listing a failed process with its error message
 

You can view process status by clicking “More” on the process (Status of any Capture or Apply Processes and Report Process for more details) :

Web UI dashboard: More button of the capture process card highlighted
 
Web UI, Capture process status: state, lag, speeds, transaction totals and replication report
 

If the process fails, detailed error information will be displayed:

Web UI dashboard: Capture Process 2 card with the FAILED status
 
Web UI, failed Capture process: status Failed with the detailed error message
 

Repstance provides the ability to notify users by email in case a process has failed. To configure the notification channel, click on the menu (upper right corner) and then “Monitoring”: 

Web UI dashboard menu opened: menu button and Monitoring item highlighted
 

Click “Add Channel” and provide your SMTP server connection credentials and add one or multiple recipients:

Web UI, Notification Channels: no channels yet, Add Channel button highlighted
 
Web UI, Add Notification Channel form with sender, SMTP host, port and recipient, Add Channel highlighted
 

Click “Add Channel”. Once the notification channel is added, you can view, edit, and test it:

Web UI, Notification Channels: channel ops_mail with the View, Edit and Test links
 

The notification channel should be attached to processes to receive information about errors. Click “Edit” on the process. In the right upper corner of “Capture Process Configuration”, click “Notification” dropdown box and select the notification channel. Click “Save Process” to apply the changes:

Web UI dashboard: Edit button of the capture process card highlighted
 
Web UI, Capture Process Configuration: Notification dropdown with the ops_mail channel highlighted
 
Web UI, Capture Process Configuration footer: Save Process button highlighted
 
 
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