Server Status Tab

The Server Status tab shows a system-wide server view.

This grid contains the status for all the Replication components.  The columns and their meaning are as follows:

• Server Type

• Controller
  
  The Controller is responsible for accepting work messages from the Administrator and distributing those work orders to the Event Producer and Event Consumer.  The Controller manages error messages as well as work messages and is responsible for starting and stopping the Event Consumer.  It resides on the same system as the Event Consumer but does not need to be on the same system as the Event Producer or the target database.
   

• Producer
  
  The Event Producer resides on the same system as Adabas and is loaded into the process space of the Adabas nucleus.  When changes are made in Adabas files that have been identified for replication, the Event Producer stores those changes in a persistent store on the hard drive.  When it receives an ET for a transaction, the Event Producer assembles all the elements of the transaction into a message and puts it on the message queue.
   

• Consumer
  
  The Event Consumer is responsible for taking transactions off the message queue and executing them on the target database.  Once a transaction has been successfully committed, it will be removed from the message queue.  There is one Event Consumer for each source DBID/target database pair.  If two Adabas DBID's are being replicated to a single target database, there will be two Event Consumers; one for each source/target combination.  In addition to transaction processing, the Event Consumer is also responsible for Initial State processing.  The number of initial states or transactions it can process in parallel is determined by the Parallel transaction count setting on the Config Servers dialog.  This dialog can be access from the Servers menu on the Replication Design Tab.  Under each Consumer entry on the grid is a list of replications currently being processed for that Event Consumer.  Each replication entry has the following columns:

1. Replication: This is the name of the source table followed by the name of the target table.

2. State Description: This tells the current state of the replication.  For a complete list of State Descriptions, see below.

3. Initial State Start: This is the date and time the last initial state was started for this replication.

4. Initial State End:  This is the date and time the last initial state ended.

5. Total (HH:MM:SS): The total time the last initial state took for this replication.

6. Messages: If there are any error messages associated with this replication, they will be displayed here.  Hint: Double click on this field to display the entire message in an edit box for easier reading.
    

• Server Name/Address
  
  This is the name of the server that the corresponding component is installed on.
   

• State Description
  
  This tells the current state of the component or replication.  Potential values and their meaning are as follows:

• Replicating: Active and replicating.

• Not Replicating - offline:  This indicates that either the target database as gone down or replication has been stopped by pressing the Stop Targets button.  (see below)  This is a Consumer status message.

• Replication Offline:  This indicates that an individual replication is offline either due to an unrecoverable error on the target or by pressing the Stop Targets button.  (see below)  This is a Replication status message.

• Processing Initial State...:  On the Consumer, this indicates that it is processing initial states.  Each replication that is actively being processed will also indicate this status.

• Initial State Pending:  This indicates that an initial state has been requested for a replication, but it has not started yet.

• Initial State Complete:  This indicates that an initial state has finished for this replication but the overall process has not yet been completed by the Event Consumer.  Once all pending initial states have completed, the consumer and all replications with a successful initial state will go to a Replicating status.

• Initial State Failed:  This indicates that an error occurred during initial state processing.  Check the Messages field for more information about the error.

• Deploy Failed:  This indicates that an error occurred during the deploy process.  Check the Messages field for all components for mor information about the error.

• No Active Configuration:  This indicates that nothing has been deployed to the controller.

• Status of the System Unknown/Unable to contact controller:  This indicates that the Replication Administrator was not able to contact the controller to get status.  Common causes of this message are the controller is not running or the message queues on either the Administrator machine, the EP machine or the controller machine are not running.

1. • Queue Length
     
     This indicates the number of elements in the queue.  In normal operation, this number will grow and shrink depending on load.  A rapid increase in this number that never goes down is an indication that the target database is offline and transactions are queuing but not being processed on the target.
      

   • Debug Level
     
     This indicates the debug level of each component.  There are 3 possible values:

   1. None:  Minimal messages are written to the log.  Errors are always written.

   2. Verbose:  Diagnostic information is written when errors occur along with transaction information.

   3. Extreme:  Complete diagnostics including buffer and transaction dumps are written to the log.  Note:  This mode will cause a degradation in performance.  Only use this mode when debugging an error situation.
       

   • Messages
     
     If there are any error messages associated with this component, they will be displayed here.  Hint:  Double click on this field to display the entire message in an edit box for easier reading.

The server status information will automatically refresh every 30 seconds. To manually refresh the server status, click the Refresh button.

The Time field in the upper right corner will contain the latest refresh time.

You can also adjust the display column width.