Monitoring with Job Servers

You can set up a Platform Agent to retrieve monitoring data, such as CPU or memory usage, at intervals as short as two seconds. This can be useful for balancing load across SAP application servers.

To create a monitoring-only Job Server, install the appropriate Platform Agent on the remote server, but do not register it with your RunMyJobs instance. Then, create a Job Server with a PlatformAgentService, and specify at the least the Job Server parameterRemoteHostName. The Remote Port can be omitted if the Job Server runs on port 1555, and the SharedSecret should not be necessary, because only monitoring data is retrieved.

Procedure

To create a monitoring-only Job Server:

  1. Navigate to Configure > Admin > Configuration > Software Groups and download the Platform Agent installer for the remote computer.
  2. Run the installer as you would on the remote computer.
  3. When the installer asks to register the Job Server, uncheck it or answer no (depending on the platform) and then complete the installation process.
  4. Navigate to Configure > Control > Job Servers.
  5. Click New.
  6. Click Monitor On Dashboard.
  7. On the Services tab, add PlatformAgentService.
  8. On the Parameters tab, add a RemoteHostName with the FQDN of the remote server.
  9. Click Save & Close.