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Foglight for PeopleSoft 5.6.11 - User and Reference Guide

Using Foglight for PeopleSoft
Exploring the PeopleSoft Dashboards Foglight for PeopleSoft Agents PS_AppMonitor Agent PS_AppServer Agent PS_DB2SQL Agent PS_MSSQL Agent PS_OracleSQL Agent PS_PPM Agent PS_SchedMonitor Agent PS_SchedServer Agent PS_Scheduler Agent Manual Agent Naming Deployment Scenario Procedures
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PS_PPM Agent

The PS_PPM Agent aggregates PeopleSoft Performance Monitor data by PeopleSoft Enterprise, web server, and application server to provide metrics that allow a user to analyze application behavior from a variety of perspectives, and automatically notifies an administrator when SLOs established for a PeopleSoft Enterprise are not being met.The PeopleSoft Performance Monitor is a diagnostic utility that enables you to monitor the performance of the main PeopleSoft elements and provides real-time resource utilization and response time measurements per Performance Measurement Unit (PMU). A PMU is a measurement reflecting the duration and key metrics of instrumented code within the PeopleTools runtime environment.

PS_PPM Agent Properties

When an agent connects to the Foglight Management Server, it is provided with sets of properties that it uses to configure its correct running state.
Each agent is provided with a combination of two types of properties: agent properties and shareable properties.
Default versions of these properties are installed with the Foglight for PeopleSoft. However, you can edit the default shareable and agent properties, configure agent properties that apply only to a specific agent instance, and create edited clones of shareable properties that are used by a subset of the agents of a certain type.
For more information about working with agent properties, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Guide.
The PS_PPM Agent is shipped with default properties that can be modified to suit your system requirements.
To modify agent properties:
1
Ensure that the navigation panel on the left is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left .
2
Open the dashboard that lets you navigate to the agent properties by completing one of the following steps:
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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, choose Administration > Agents > Agent Properties.
In the Agent Properties dashboard, in the Namespace > Type pane, select Legacy > PS_PPM.
or
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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, choose Administration > Agents > Agent Status.
In the Agent Status dashboard, select the instance of the PS_PPM agent whose properties you want to modify and click Edit Properties.
A list of agent properties appears in the PS_PPM pane.
The position of the Properties pane depends on the dashboard you used to access agent properties. If you used the Agent Properties dashboard, the Properties pane appears to the right of the Namespace > Type pane in the display area. If you used the Agent Status dashboard, the Properties pane appears across the display area.

Setting the PS_PPM Connection Parameters

The PS_PPM Agent must be configured with specific database information before the agent can connect to the database to collect PeopleSoft user transactions within the database.
The Connection Details agent properties allow you to specify the environment variable the agent uses to connect to the PeopleSoft database. The connection information consists of a DataSource Name (DSN), Database Login ID and Password.
To set the connection details:
1
Go to the Connection set of properties.
2
Enter the data source name defined in the ODBC connection template in the PPMI Server URL box.
3
Enter the user account login that accesses the PeopleSoft database in the PeopleSoft User Name box.
 
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NOTE: This user must have access authority to obtain snapshots from the DB2 database.
4
Enter the password for database login in the PeopleSoft User Password box.
5
Enter the localhost socket port for the listener in the PS_PPM Agent Listener Port box.
The default is 5175.
 
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NOTE: The PS_Listener port must be greater than 1024, but less than 65536, and cannot be used by other applications.
6
Click Save.
The PS_PPM attempts to run on the Foglight Console. If successful, the agent status is listed as running.
Once the PeopleSoft Connection Details agent properties are properly configured, the Management Server gathers data from the PeopleSoft agent.
 
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NOTE: For help configuring the other agent properties, see the Foglight online help.
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Go to the Setting the PS_AppServer Data Management Parameters section.

Setting the PS_PPM Data Management Parameters

Use the Data Management PS_PPM agent properties to set the sample frequency.
To set the data management properties:
1
Go to the Data Management set of properties.
2
Enter the collection interval in the Sample Frequency (seconds) box.
The collection rate, or sample frequency, is the number of seconds between the end of a collection period and the start of the next.
The default is 300 seconds.
3
Ignore the Edit Purging List. This field is not functional.
4
Click Save.
5
Go to the Setting PS_PPM Threshold Parameters section.
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