AMH File Services Test

Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) is a financial messaging solution which can handle swift messages along with files and documents with reliability and in a secure manner.

The File services enables the transfer of files in a secure and reliable manner, it includes bulk payment files, very large reports and operational data. Given Swift AMH handles the financial data, it is of utmost importance that data is transferred in most reliable manner and any service failure is handled without any data loss. That is the reason it is important to monitor file services so as to ensure that any issue with file services are reported before it causes any problem with data transfer.

This test monitors AMH file services and report the current status of the service, this helps administrators investigate further and ensure that they bring the service back before major financial transaction.

Target of the test : A Swift AMH messaging hub

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Swift AMH 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.
SSL	If the JBoss AS/EAP server being monitored is an SSL-enabled server, then set the SSL flag to Yes. If not, then set the SSL flag to No.
JMX Remote Port	Specify the port at which the JMX listens for requests from remote hosts. Ensure that you specify the same port that you configured in the management.properties file in the <JAVA_HOME>\jre\lib\management folder used by the target application Java Applications chapter.
JNDI Name	Specify the lookup name for connecting to the JMX connector of the Swift AMH.
JMX User, JMX Password and Confirm Password	These parameters appear only if the Measurement Mode is set to jmx. If JMX requires authentication only (but no security), then ensure that the JMX User and JMX Password parameters are configured with the credentials of a user with read-write access to JMX. To know how to create this user, refer to the How to Monitor JBoss Application Server Using eG Enterprise? chapter. Confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box.
JMX Registry SSL	If you have registered the JMX connector in an SSL-enabled RMI registry , set this flag to Yes. By default, this is set to No.

Measures made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Status	Indicates the current status of File services.		The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows: Measure Value Numeric Value Open 4 Connected 5 Active 6 Ready 7 Starting 12 Stopping 13 Restarting 14 Recovering 15 Reconnecting 16 Recovered 32 Alerted 33 Partially Started 34 Disabled 42 Stopped 43 Not Active 44 Start Failed 52 Restart Failed 53 Stop Failed 54 Init Failed 55 Recovery Failed 56 Error 65 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.