Managing Services

The Management page provides a centralized location to view and configure software service groups, examine meta information, and monitor the status of service instances. Service types organize the page, with individual groups listed below. To access the Management page, start at the Platform menu, expand Servers, and select Management in the sidebar.

The Management page displays the following information and controls:

• Selected Group Information: Details for the chosen service group:
  1. Name: The identifier of the service group.
  2. Software Archive Version: The current version of the software archive deployed to this group.
  3. Configuration Archive Version: The current version of the configuration archive applied to this group.
• Server Information: Details for each server within the selected group:
  1. IP Address: The network address of the server.
  2. Hostname: The system name of the server.
  3. Hardware ID: The unique identifier of the server hardware.
• Status: The current operational state of the traffic processor service on the server:
  1. Active: The traffic processor service is running and processing traffic.
  2. Inactive: The traffic processor service is currently stopped.
  3. Activating: The traffic processor service is in the process of starting.
• Operating Mode: The intended operating mode for the traffic processor application, as configured by the user.
• Actual Op Mode: The current operating mode the traffic processor application is actively running in.
• Actions: Available operations for managing the traffic processor service:
  1. Command: Initiate control actions for the traffic processor application:
     • Stop Command: Stops the traffic processor application, causing a temporary disruption in network traffic.
     • Start Command: Starts the traffic processor application, enabling it to begin processing traffic.
     • Restart Command: Restarts the traffic processor application, resulting in a temporary interruption of network traffic until the application is back online.
  2. Maintenance Mode: Toggles whether the service is under maintenance:
     • ON: Indicates the traffic processor application is undergoing maintenance. The Management System will not monitor this service, and no alerts will be generated during this period.
  3. Operating Mode: Sets the operational behavior of the traffic processor application:
     • Bypass: Forwards all traffic directly between network interface card (NIC) ports without involving the application. No optimization or detailed statistics are recorded, except for Layer 2 metrics showing bytes traversing the network bridge.
     • Optimize: Directs all traffic through the traffic processor application for processing and optimization.
     • Passive: Routes all traffic through the traffic processor application but does not apply any optimization.
  4. Remove Instance: Removes the traffic processor application instance from management. Use this action when an instance is no longer available and should not be monitored.
• Apply: Applies changes made to the actions above on the selected traffic processor application(s).

Management Page