VMware Tanzu™ GemFire® Management and Monitoring

VMware Tanzu GemFire provides APIs and tools for managing your cluster and monitoring the health of your members.

• Management and Monitoring Features

  VMware Tanzu GemFire uses a federated Open MBean strategy to manage and monitor all members of the cluster. This strategy gives you a consolidated, single-agent view of the cluster.

• Overview of Tanzu GemFire Management and Monitoring Tools

  Tanzu GemFire provides a variety of management tools you can use to manage a Tanzu GemFire cluster.

• Architecture and Components

  Tanzu GemFire’s management and monitoring system consists of one JMX Manager node (there should only be one) and one or more managed nodes within a cluster. All members in the cluster are manageable through MBeans and Tanzu GemFire Management Service APIs.

• JMX Manager Operations

  Any member can host an embedded JMX Manager, which provides a federated view of all MBeans for the cluster. The member can be configured to be a manager at startup or anytime during its life by invoking the appropriate API calls on the ManagementService.

• Federated MBean Architecture

  Tanzu GemFire uses MBeans to manage and monitor different parts of Tanzu GemFire. Tanzu GemFire’s federated MBean architecture is scalable and allows you to have a single-agent view of a Tanzu GemFire cluster.

• Configuring RMI Registry Ports and RMI Connectors

  Tanzu GemFire programmatically emulates out-of-the-box JMX provided by Java and creates a JMXServiceURL with RMI Registry and RMI Connector ports on all manageable members.

• Executing gfsh Commands through the Management API

  You can also use management APIs to execute gfsh commands programmatically.