The ServiceControl installation package includes a utility to manage the installation, upgrade, and removal of ServiceControl instances, including monitoring instances. This utility is launched as the final step in the installation process and is also available via the Windows Start Menu.
Usage
Use a Monitoring instance to vizualize endpoint performance metrics in ServicePulse.
Monitoring instances are not as resource intensive as the Error and Audit instances and can be run on the same machine as the Error instance.
Transport support
Monitoring supports the same transports as ServiceControl.
Using ServiceControl Management to upgrade monitoring instances
ServiceControl Management provides a simple means of setting up one or more monitoring instances.
ServiceControl Management can be launched automatically at the end of the installation process to enable adding or upgrading ServiceControl or monitoring instances.
ServiceControl Management will display the list of installed ServiceControl and monitoring instances. If the version of the binaries used by an instance are older than those shipped with ServiceControl Management, an upgrade link will be shown against the version label.
To upgrade the instance, click the upgrade link next to the instance name.
Clicking the upgrade link will:
- Prompt for any new information that is required to run properly on the transport of choice.
- Stop the monitoring instance Windows Service.
- Remove the old binaries.
- Run the new binaries to upgrade the instance by applying new settings and/or creating any required additional queues.
- Start the monitoring instance Windows Service.
Using ServiceControl Management to add monitoring instances
Click on the + NEW link at the top of the screen and select "Monitoring instance" to launch the "New instance form". Complete the form to register a new monitoring instance.
Service name and plugins
When adding a monitoring instance, the default Windows Service name is Particular.. It is possible to change this name to a custom Windows Service name. In doing so, this is also changing the queue name associated with this instance.
The metrics endpoint plugin will need the monitoring instance name to send metric data to the monitoring instance.