The Health Checker Setup page is where you decide whether you want to set up the Health Checker, which is a standalone monitoring and reporting tool. The Health Checker alerts on replication issues and tracks the Real-Time Delta (RTD). The RTD represents how many minutes out of sync the replication is between participants. It is similar to a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) but focuses only on the real-time replication engine and not the scan engine.
You can install the Health Checker locally (on the same server that Peer Management Center is installed on) or externally (on a server that neither Peer Management Center nor Agents are running on). To receive the full benefit of the Health Checker, we recommend that you install it externally. If you install it locally, you will not get failure alerts if the PMC server goes down.
To set up Health Checker:
1.Select a setup option.
Option |
Description |
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Configure the Health Checker already installed on a remote server. |
Recommended option for receiving the full benefit of Health Checker. If installed on remote server, Health Checker does both failure as well as performance monitoring. The remote server can be a domain controller or some other infrastructure server. It should not be running PMC or Agent software. |
Set up Health Checker on this PMC server. |
Select this option if you want performance statistics but not full failure monitoring. If the PMC server fails or is shut down, replication will stop but no failure alerts will be sent. |
Do not install or configure the Health Checker. |
Select this option if you do not want performance statistics or failure monitoring. |
2.Click Next.
Your next step depends on the option you selected in Step 1:
Selected Option |
Continue on this wizard page |
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Configure the Health Checker already installed on a remote server. |
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Set up Health Checker on this PMC server. |
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Do not install or configure the Health Checker. |