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PATS-STATUS Plug-in

Introduction

The Geneos PATS-STATUS Plug-In allows Geneos users to monitor the status and outstanding errors information about PATS components. The plugin collects these information by connecting to the PATS AMS website.

Views (for multiple views)

STATUS View

This view shows the status information of PATS components. For each component, if there are any errors that have not been cleared, a count of these will be displayed in the "Outstanding Errors" column.

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OUTSTANDING-ERRORS View

This view shows the outstanding errors relating to PATS components. These are errors that have not yet been cleared using the AMS monitoring system.

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Plug-in Configuration

The configuration for this plugin pertains to connecting and logging in to the PATS AMS website.

Mandatory configuration:

amsUrl: http://10.138.249.203/pats
amsAccessCode: admin123

OR

amsUrl: http://10.138.249.203/pats/login.cgi
amsStatusUrl: http://10.138.249.203/pats/status.cgi
amsAccessCode: admin123

The following parameters can be configured for this plug-in:

amsUrl

The URL of the ams website, which typically end with '/pats'. The plugin would determine the login and status page URL's by addining '/login.cgi' and '/status.cgi' to this URL.

Alternatively, the login and status page URLs can be directly specifying using the amsLoginUrl and amsStatusUrl described below.

Mandatory: No

amsLoginUrl

The full URL of the login cgi script (typically would end with '/login.cgi'). If this setting is not specified, then amsUrl must be specified.

Mandatory: No

amsStatusUrl

The full URL of the status page cgi script (typically would end with '/status.cgi'). If this setting is not specified, then amsUrl must be specified.

Mandatory: No

amsAccessCode

An access code for the plugin to login to the AMS website to get status information

Mandatory: Yes