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interceptor and forwards statistical information to an instance of the Looking Glass Server
(also available separately).
The Actional Agent can analyze Web service and JMS traffic on the Enterprise Service
Bus. When you enable Actional’s interceptor technology on existing ESB infrastructures,
the Analyzer lets you gather data from this interceptor and communicate with an instance
of Actional Server.
The Actional ESB Interceptor is included in an ESB installation; however, it is not
enabled by default. To use the Actional Agent to manage ESB services and processes,
connect the Sonic Management Console to a Sonic domain you want to instrument, and
then select the option to Enable Actional Instrumentation on each ESB Container you
want to enable, as shown:
To activate an enabled interceptor requires that the Actional Agent is installed and
running, and that the Agent node is under management by an Actional Server.
If the Actional Agent is not running before the instrumented Sonic ESB Containers are
started, you must restart the enabled Sonic ESB Containers to activate the Actional
visualization feature.
Important If the Actional Agent is installed with a non-default \link directory (the directory where
the Actional Agent creates Uplink.cfg), you must specify the path to the link directory
as a Java system property on the Environment tab of each management container’s
properties with the Variable name com.actional.lg.interceptor.config and, for the
Value, the complete path, such as usr1/aUser/Actional/ActionalAgent/LG.Interceptor.
Note When using Actional to view an ESB process that makes a SOAP web service call, the
display might not be correct if that web service is running on a machine which is under
Actional management. The process and the remote web service might appear to be
disconnected. To view these interactions properly, remove the web service from
management through the Actional Server administration interface. Web services that are
running on unmanaged Actional nodes are not affected by this and render correctly.
See www.progress.com/actional for more information. The “Instrumenting Sonic ESB”
chapter in the Actional Interceptor Guide in the Actional Agent documentation set
provides details and illustrations of this feature.
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