How to do a proper DMA health check?

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Hello Dojo,

I want to assess the general health of a few Dataminer Agents.
Besides memory leaks, disk space, and processor load, what are the essential points that should be checked? Or things that from experience usually give us a warning that something could be wrong.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 7th December 2023

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Hi Ana,

Some other things that come to mind:

  • Check the SLWatchdog2 log file for toggling halfopen RTEs or open RTEs. It might be that you don't notice these in the alarm console (especially if they never become a full RTE/thread problem) but they might indicate a problem in your system.
  • Check the SLErrors log file. This log file contains all errors across all DataMiner modules and thus is an interesting file to get an overview of errors happening in your system.
  • Run the BPA tests: Running BPA Tests | DataMiner Docs.
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 7th December 2023
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Hi Ana,

You can find information about this topic on the following page: Tracking the health of a DataMiner System | DataMiner Docs.

Edith Lansens [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 13th November 2023