Choosing a deployment strategy
The best strategy for deploying OpenEdge Management depends on your requirements. There is no one strategy that works bests for all environments. You may find that a combination of approaches works best for your needs. Some factors to consider when deciding on a deployment strategy include:
- Do you want to minimize the impact of OpenEdge Management on your production machines? If so, you should consider installing OpenEdge Management on a machine dedicated to running OpenEdge Management and use OpenEdge Management remote monitoring capabilities.
- Do you want to view the status of all your resources from a single OpenEdge Management console? If so, you should consider using OpenEdge Management's remote resource monitoring capabilities.
Note: If you have NFS-mounted disks, you may be able to monitor these resources locally, even if the disks are on a remote machine.- Do you need to monitor file or log file resources on multiple machines? If so, you'll need to install OpenEdge Management on each machine. OpenEdge Management currently does not provide the ability to monitor file or log file resources remotely.
- Do you need to monitor network (TCP, UDP, HTTP, or ICMP) resources on multiple machines? If so, you'll need to install OpenEdge Management on each machine. OpenEdge Management currently does not provide the ability to monitor these resources on a remote machine. Note that, under most circumstances, it is sufficient to have OpenEdge Management monitor these resources from the local machine, as that will test the availability of the resources.
- Do you need to run jobs on remote machines? If so, you'll need to install OpenEdge Management on each machine where jobs are to be run. OpenEdge Management currently does not provide the ability to start a job on a remote machine.
The default port for monitoring remote OpenEdge and system resources is 6835, and the default port for monitoring remote databases is 7835.- Will you be monitoring resources outside of your network firewall? If so, you'll need to perform the appropriate tunneling to allow OpenEdge Management through the firewall.
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