A

Access Control List (ACL)

A table of authorized user account information that OpenEdge Management creates based on the authorized users that you define. Note that these OpenEdge Management user accounts are not operating system accounts.

Action

A user-defined process set up to automatically occur in response to the status, availability, or performance information of a monitored resource.

Administrator

A user who has access to all OpenEdge Management functionality without restrictions.

Alerts

An indication that a noteworthy event has occurred in a monitored resource.

See also Asynchronous alert, Internal alert, and Polled alert.

Aliasing

An event in which the server sends the client to a different Web page without informing the client.

Asynchronous alert

An onscreen notification generated by an OpenEdge Management resource the moment a specific condition is detected, regardless of the resource's polling interval. An asynchronous alert can identify violations related to mission-critical and time-sensitive activities.

Authorized users

Any individuals (administrators or operators) identified to OpenEdge Management on the Authorized Users page.

Autobaselining

See Configuration Advisor.

Auto-start Option

An indication that OpenEdge Management will be automatically started when the AdminServer is started.

B

Bar chart

A time-based chart that shows how a resource changes over time.

Baseline value

A number that serves as the base for calculating a set of possible threshold settings based on your system's past activity for a specific rule. Baseline values are used by the Configuration Advisor.

Bookmark

A user-defined identifier that is inserted into your log file to indicate the exact point from which the log file monitor is reading data.

Bulk Clear

Simultaneous clearing of all alerts that meet specified criteria.

C

Certificate

An attachment included in a network communication for the purposes of security. A certificate allows the recipient of the communication to verify that the sender is as claimed and allows the recipient to return to the sender an encrypted response.

A certificate is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA).

See also Root certificate.

Certificate Authority

A provider of encrypted digital certificates. The CA signs the certificate request and chains it to its root certificate.

Cipher text

Encrypted data.

Collection

A group of resources (known also as members) that you define. You group resources into a collection based on criteria that you find valuable when grouped and viewed together.

Collection view

A view of individual viewlets. Each viewlet summarizes particular content, such as which resources have alerts or which active monitoring plans exist.

Configuration Advisor

An OpenEdge Management feature that can determine optimum threshold settings for specific polled rules.

Configuration process

The process of making and recording decisions about OpenEdge Management's setup and operation.

Console

See OpenEdge Management console.

Container

A named instance of an AdminServer that is either running OpenEdge Management or has been configured to be monitored by OpenEdge Management.

Content rule

An HTTP monitor rule that indicates content details such as whether a hash value comparison should be performed or a search should be performed on a given page for the search string you specify.

Cron expression

An expression you can use to establish more complex scheduling of jobs or reports.

Custom job

A user-defined task that is executed according to a user-defined schedule.

See also Database maintenance job and Job.

Custom view

An OpenEdge Management view that you create to define exactly what type of information you want to see. The information appears in a tabular and/or graphical format and provides you with a quick visual assessment of the status of each of your various resources.

D

Database Compaction

The process of compacting data in the OpenEdge Management Trend Database by using an OpenEdge Management database maintenance job template.

Database maintenance job

An OpenEdge Management-supplied, specialized job template from which job instances can be created. The predefined database jobs address fundamental OpenEdge database maintenance activities.

See also Custom job and Job.

Database migration utility

An OpenEdge Management utility that allows a database to be recognized and managed by the Progress Explorer, the AdminServer, and OpenEdge Management.

Database resource discovery

The process by which OpenEdge Management automatically recognizes a database managed by the AdminServer and Progress Explorer.

Database rule sets

See Rule sets.

Data encryption

A method of translating data into a code that is indecipherable without a special key or password.

Default rules

OpenEdge Management-provided default settings. You can use these default values when defining rules for resource monitors. Default rules are set up at the resource type level, and you can override them at the individual resource level.

Detail frame

The right frame of the OpenEdge Management console. The detail frame displays information and tools related to the selection made in the list frame.

Detail menu

A DHTML menu available in select spots in the OpenEdge Management console. The content of the menu varies depending on where it appears, and its commands enable you to perform a number of common OpenEdge Management tasks.

Digital signature

A signature on a certificate from a trusted Certificate Authority.

Disabled database

A database deleted through Progress Explorer that continues to display in OpenEdge Management.

Discovery

See Network discovery process and OpenEdge server discovery process.

E

Encryption

See Data encryption.

Exit code

A numeric value that indicates whether or not a job-related process has succeeded. Typically, an exit code of zero indicates success, while a nonzero code indicates an error.

When an action is associated with a job's exit code, OpenEdge Management can ensure that the specified action occurs.

See also Job chaining.

Export

To place a copy of an OpenEdge Management component's definition into a file that you can then import and use on another machine.

F

fmconfig utility

The utility you run to enable remote resource monitoring.

Fully qualified resource key

The most complete reference to a resource. The default format for a fully qualified resource key identifies each resource by its container name, the resource category to which the resource belongs, and the specific resource type and associated resource name.

G

Gluing

The requirement of associating one OpenEdge Management installation with one OpenEdge 10.1B product installation.

Group

A collection of users who share the same user privileges. Specific to OpenEdge Management usage, a group identifies personnel who can create or maintain a job on supported UNIX platforms.

H

Handshake

A communication that allows the server to identify (authenticate) itself to the client by sending a certificate. The client uses the certificate to verify that the sender is who it claims to be.

HTML compliance

The requirement for certain values entered in fields on OpenEdge Management pages to adhere to formatting rules and conventions that the HyperText Markup Language honors. For example, you cannot enter spaces between words or use special characters such as an asterisk (*), ampersand (&), or period.

HTTP monitor

An OpenEdge Management-supported resource monitoring feature that allows you to monitor various aspects of a Universal Resource Locator (URL).

I

Import

To add a component definition from an import file to your project.

Internal alert

An onscreen notification automatically generated to inform you of events that occur internal to OpenEdge Management and for which you cannot set up specific alert definitions.

Initialization file

A text file that provides all the information necessary to run a batch mode OpenEdge Management installation on UNIX.

J

Job

General term used to identify a task executed at regularly scheduled intervals. OpenEdge Management supports two types of jobs: custom and database maintenance.

See also Custom job and Database maintenance job.

Job chaining

Linking individual job instances together in a sequence based on the presence of a specific exit code. Using the value of an exit code that occurs in response to a job having been run, you can determine the processes, or control the flow of processes, that occur once one job ends and the next one begins.

See also Exit code.

Job instance

An individual job derived from a job template. A job instance has schedules that define when OpenEdge Management runs these jobs.

See also Job template.

Job template

A template that provides predefined, common values from which individual jobs, called job instances, can be created and separately maintained.

See also Job instance.

K

Keystore

A database that functions as a repository for the certificates and keys.

Keytool

A key and certificate management utility, developed by Sun Microsystems, that allows you to administer your own private/public key pairs and associated certificates. You then use these keys and certificates for self-authentication (in which you authenticate yourself to other users or services) using digital signatures.

L

Legend

Information in a graphical view that describes the data being presented.

List frame

The vertical frame that displays on the left side of the OpenEdge Management console and displays items related to the selection made in the menu bar.

Log file monitor rule sets

A set of rules that you can define and then associate with one or more log file monitor resources.

M

Managed database

A database that the Progress Explorer client and the AdminServer recognize and manage.

Management Console

See OpenEdge Management console.

Menu bar

A horizontal bar at the top of the OpenEdge Management console that lists the following options: My Dashboard, Alerts, Resources, Library, Reports, Jobs, Options, and Help. The menu bar also displays the name of the machine and the username entered in the Logon window.

Meter chart

A chart giving a metered view of information. Used when showing a snapshot in time.

Monitor

The combination of a resource, schedule, and rules.

Monitoring plan

A block of time that a resource is to be monitored and the processing rules that are to be checked during the defined time frame. The basic elements used by all resource monitoring plans are schedules, rules, alerts, and actions.

My Dashboard page

A default page that OpenEdge Management creates for each user. From this page, you can create private or shared collections and views.

N

Network discovery process

The process of searching for ports that are already known to your system when creating or maintaining OpenEdge Management network resources.

Network resources

Applications and other databases that might not be part of your OpenEdge application environment but that OpenEdge Management supports. The supported network resources are TCP port, UDP port, HTTP, and Ping (ICMP).

O

OpenEdge Management console

A Web-based interface used to access all of OpenEdge Management's functionality.

OpenEdge Management system architecture

OpenEdge Management is comprised of four components:

OpenEdge Management Trend Database

A database that stores all data collected by OpenEdge Management agents.

OpenEdge Management Web server

A component of the OpenEdge Management architecture that allows you to connect to OpenEdge Management through the Web-based management console. By default, OpenEdge Management uses port 9090 for this Web server when configured to use HTTP and port 9443 when configured to use HTTPS.

OpenEdge server discovery process

The process OpenEdge Management uses to detect new OpenEdge server-related resources and automatically create default monitoring plans for them.

OpenEdge servers

Any of three OpenEdge server products that OpenEdge Management can monitor and manage: AppServer, NameServer, and WebSpeed Transaction Server.

Operator

A user role whose access to overall OpenEdge Management functionality is restricted. By default, a user in the operator role is allowed only to view most functionality. (An administrator can customize the operator role to allow greater access.)

P

Pie chart

A chart used to represent more than one kind of information.

Pin up chart

A pin up representation of either an OpenEdge Management database view or custom view.

Ping status

One of three statuses returned when the presence of a resource has been checked: failure, passed, and unreachable.

Polled alert

An onscreen notification generated when the polling schedule defined for a monitored resource detects an error or other condition.

Private/public key pair

The combination of a sender's public key, which is common knowledge, and a private key, which is known only by the recipient of an Internet communication.

Procertm utility

A utility you can use to add any Certificate Authority's root certificate to the trend trust keystore, if the root certificate is not already there. You can also use the procertm utility to convert digital certificates between certificate file types (.der and .pem).

R

Redirection

An event in which the server informs the client that it is being redirected, and sends the client to the new page.

Reglue

A command that allows you to change the association between an OpenEdge Management installation and an OpenEdge 10.1B installation without necessarily having to uninstall and then reinstall OpenEdge Management. This command is available only on the UNIX platform.

Remote monitoring

Monitoring of the following resources on a remote machine: database, file, CPU, memory, disk, file system, or OpenEdge server components.

Report instance

The entity you schedule to run in order to produce report results. The report instance identifies the details to be reported on.

Report template

The interface through which you define the characteristics of a report.

Resource

A specific component of your system that is monitored by OpenEdge Management, such as database, files, database and log files, CPU, memory, disk, file system, OpenEdge server (AppServer, NameServer, or WebSpeed Transaction Server), TCP, UDP, and HTTP ports, and Ping (ICMP).

Resource viewlet

A viewlet (in an OpenEdge Management custom view) that provides details specific to a single instance of a resource.

Response file

A text file that provides all the information necessary to run a silent or batch mode OpenEdge Management installation in Windows.

Root certificate

A certificate that identifies the Certificate Authority. A root certificate is self-signed, meaning it does not chain to another certificate to establish trust. If a certificate user, such as a browser, does not recognize a particular certificate, it walks the chain for a parent that it does know, until it reaches the root.

Rule definitions

The specific attributes of a resource to be monitored.

Rule Summary

A list of the rules and rule sets that are applied to a particular monitoring plan.

Rules

Criteria by which a resource's performance is measured.

Rule set

A set of rules that you can define, store in the OpenEdge Management Component Library, and then associate with one or more database resources, log file monitor resources, or OpenEdge server resources (AppServer, NameServer, or WebSpeed Transaction Server). You can share rule sets among resources that belong to the same resource type.

OpenEdge Management provides default rule sets and also supports user-defined rule sets.

S

Schedule

A specific time frame defined for a resource monitor or job.

For a resource, the time frame defines when a set of monitoring rules is active. The schedule defines the block of time in which polling occurs (for example, 9:00AM–
5:00 PM).

For a job, the time frame defines when the job will be executed. The schedule defines how frequently an individual job occurs (for example, every fifteen minutes).

Scripted database

A database that is not currently listed among the database resources that the AdminServer manages.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

A protocol used for secure transmission of data across the Internet.

Search criteria

User-defined literals or Perl 5 regular expressions you submit to run searches within a log file or database log file.

Set OpenEdge Management environment

A utility that sets the shell environment variables needed for executing both OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge commands.

SNMP Adapter

A product that allows you to run the OpenEdge Management SNMP agent and configure it to throw traps to an SNMP Adapter console.

SNMP trap action

A specific type of action that allows OpenEdge Management resource-related event notifications to be sent to your SNMP management console.

Stacked column chart

A chart representing both the breakdown of different data types and the total of those data types together.

Standard viewlet

A viewlet (in a custom view) that is predefined by OpenEdge Management and used to display information about either multiple resources or no resources at all.

Status rule

An HTTP monitor rule that can indicate whether the URL you are monitoring was redirected and if the GET method was successful and accomplished within the time range you specified.

T

Traps

See SNMP trap action.

Trend, Trending

The process of identifying and storing data in the OpenEdge Management Trend Database.

Truncate Action

An option you specify when defining a log file monitor resource monitor. This option identifies where the marker will be set within the file when the log file has been truncated.

U

Unglue command

The command you run to uninstall OpenEdge Management on UNIX.

V

Valid data sample

As determined by the Configuration Advisor, a data sample that is determined to be other than a null value (any whole number that is less than zero).

View

Detailed information about a resource that appears in the detail frame. Views present a resource's data in both tabular and graphical formats.

See also Collection view.

Viewlet

An individual pane of information in an OpenEdge Management custom view.

See also Resource viewlet and Standard viewlet.

X

X.509

A commonly used standard for defining digital certificates.


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