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Table Of Contents
- Administrator Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
- System Administration and Management
- Server Protection
- Network Protection
- Application Protection
- Application Protection Overview
- Applications: Applications Tab
- Reset the Application Health Status
- View Application Status
- Setting the Application Timeout Exception
- Remove an Application
- Manually Start and Stop Applications
- Configuring Applications
- Application Maintenance Mode
- Reviewing the State of an Application
- Reviewing the Applications Log
- Filtering Application Log Entries
- Applications: Services Tab
- Applications: Tasks Tab
- Applications: Plug-ins Tab
- Status and Control
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- About vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Work with Groups and Pairs
- Add, Edit, Move, and Remove Pairs in VCenter Server Heartbeat Groups
- Review the Status of vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups and Pairs
- Exit vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Shut Down Windows Without Stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Controlled Shutdown
- vSphere Client Plug-in
- Uninstall vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Performance Protection
- Data Protection
- Alerts and Events
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Unexpected Behaviors
- Two Active Servers
- Two Passive Servers
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out of Sync
- Channel Drops
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- MaxDiskUsage Error Messages
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage (VCChannelExceededMaxDiskUsageException)
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage on the ACTIVE Server
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage on the PASSIVE Server
- [L20]Out of Disk Space (VCChannelOutOfDiskSpaceException)
- Application Slowdown
- Poor Application Performance
- Both Servers Can Accommodate the Initial Load but the Load Has Increased
- One Server Can Provide Adequate Resource Support, but the Other Cannot
- Scheduled Resource Intensive Tasks
- Glossary
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Chapter 5 Application Protection
Configuring Applications
Use the Applications page to configure protected applications, enable and disable protection and monitoring.
You can maintain applications without stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat or taking the full server offline.
During installation, vCenter Server Heartbeat sets default settings for application configurations but accepts
modifications to the configurations settings.
To configure applications
1Click Configure on the Applications page.
You can protect services and start monitoring applications or unprotect services and stop monitoring
applications. You can also enable Verbose Plugin logging, Discover protected data at startup, Discover
protected services at startup, and set the rule trigger count.
2 After making modifications to the configuration, click OK.
Application Maintenance Mode
Use the Applications page to disable application protection, service monitoring, and recover for maintenance
purposes.
To perform manual maintenance
1On the Applications page, select the Summary tab.
2Click Configure.
3 Select Unprotect services and stop monitoring all applications (for manual application maintenance).
4 Perform the required maintenance.
5 When maintenance is complete, from the Applications page of vCenter Server Heartbeat Console, select
the Summary tab.
6Click Configure.
7 Select Protect services and monitor all applications (recommended).
Reviewing the State of an Application
After an application successfully starts and is running, you can view the application state in the Applications:
Summary page. If an application fails, right-click the event in the Applications Log and click on Properties to
invoke the Event Properties dialog and investigate the failure.
Reviewing the Applications Log
The Applications Log helps troubleshoot the protected application environment. The Applications Log
provides information about the behavior of all protected applications and includes events such as task status
changes, rule triggering, task outputs, and application warnings. Use this log to troubleshoot application
errors. The order that entries are displayed can be sorted either ascending or descending by clicking the
column title.
Filtering Application Log Entries
vCenter Server Heartbeat can filter Applications Log files to limit the events displayed. By default, all events
display in the Applications Log file.
To filter the events to display
1 Right-click an event in the Applications Log and click Filter in the Applications Log pane on the
Applications page.
2 In the upper section, clear the event types you do not want to view.