TOS Suite Administration

As with all of your business critical servers, you must have real-time knowledge of the hardware and software health of your systems. Suite Administration lets you monitor resource usage and important services running on your TOS server. Enable Suite Administration to send notifications, and then configure your desired notification method - email or SNMP traps.

If you use a network monitoring system that collects SNMP information, it is important that all of your systems report into the system so you can prevent downtime that results from failed servers. When you enable SNMP trap notification, you can monitor the health of your TOS server using the same tools you use to monitor any other resource in your environment. Review the Tufin SNMP MIBs in the Tufin Knowledge Center or in your TOS server at: /usr/local/st/mibs/TUFIN-MIB.txt, and the traps used for monitoring the OS.

You can enable Suite Administration for a standalone TOS server, a primary High Availability (HA) server, the Central Server in a Distributed Architecture (DA) deployment.

The following hardware resources are monitored:

  • CPU (default threshold - 10%)
  • Memory (default threshold - 70%)
  • Disk (default threshold - 70%)

The following software resources are monitored:

  • Tomcat application server
  • Apache web server
  • PostgresSQL database
  • Cron
  • Syslog
  • JMS Tunnel (Disabled by default; Enable for HA and DA deployments only)
  • Stunnel (Disabled by default; Enable for HA and DA deployments only)

You can use one of these methods to monitor system health:

  • Email notifications - Configure email addresses to which TOS sends notifications to through a specified SMTP server
  • SNMP traps - Configure the SNMP server to which TOS sends SNMP traps on port 162
  • SNMP get - Configure an SNMP server to connect to the SNMP agent on the TOS server on port 10161 to retrieve resource status

    SNMP get is available as soon as Suite Administration is enabled, and no additional configuration is required.

What can I do?