AMH Physical Cluster Test

Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) is a modular, financial messaging solution for corporate networks. It allows extensive throughput and sophisticated data management through the use of latest technology to manage messages and files. Given that AMH is a platform for high speed and highly critical international business transactions, it is imperative that it is set up in a cluster in a high performance environment. Setting up a physical cluster is first step and core of the clustered environment, and if physical cluster is setup and working efficiently it forms the basis for setting up logical nodes and logical clusters. That is the reason it is very important for physical cluster to be working efficiently and it is necessary to monitor the same so that any issues with it can be identified in advance.

This test monitors the physical cluster and collects the key metrics like state of the cluster, nodes running, stopped etc. These statistics about the physical nodes provide excellent insights to administrators to investigate and avoid any issues.

Target of the test : A Swift AMH cluster instance

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each physical cluster being monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameter	Description
Test period	How often should the test be executed
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Port	The port at which the specified host listens.

Measures made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Cluster State	Indicates the current state of this physical cluster.		The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows: Measure Value Numeric Value Running 10 Stopped 0 Not running 20 Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
Total nodes	Indicates the total number of physical nodes configured in this physical cluster.	Number	The number of physical nodes should be optimal.
Running nodes	Indicates the total number of physical nodes configured in this physical cluster which are currently running.	Number	Ideally the number of running nodes should be high near the total number of nodes.
Degraded nodes	Indicates the total number of physical nodes configured in this physical cluster which are in degraded state.	Number	The degraded nodes should be looked at and investigated.
Stopped nodes	Indicates the total number of physical nodes configured in this physical cluster which are stopped.	Number	The stopped nodes should be looked at and investigated.