Quick Start Guide

This section provides a quick start guide that you can use to implement iWay Sentinel in your enterprise.

1. Install Sentinel. For more information, see Installing Sentinel.
2. Install iWay 8 and Envoy. For more information, see Installing the Envoy.
3. Login to Sentinel
   1. Create users and assign passwords as required. For more information, see Administration.
   2. Register servers. For more information, see Registering a Server.
4. Import applications, packages, and other files into the Sentinel repository. For more information, see Managing and Monitoring Applications.
5. Create groups with servers, and applications as required for your enterprise. For more information, see Groups.
6. Deploy applications and packages. For more information, see Managing and Monitoring Applications.
   1. If required, schedule the management activities accordingly. For more information, see Tasks.
7. Start monitoring your servers, applications, and channels.
8. On a daily basis:
   1. Monitor the health status for servers, applications, and channels as required.
   2. Check whether the scheduled tasks are in progress or not. If tasks are not going to be completed, then cancel or reschedule the tasks.
   3. Check worker threads, JVM, server performance, and so on.
9. On a weekly basis:
   1. Check whether the health calculations are meaningful for the enterprise.
   2. Fine tune the weights being used for the health formula as required.
   3. Check whether the schedule for weekly tasks should be adjusted.
10. On a monthly basis:
    1. Check the artifacts in the repository to determine whether they should be stored or removed.
11. Ad-hoc schedule:
    1. If a server is not required to be monitored (for example, it is shut down or in another state that cannot be monitored), then remove this server from Sentinel monitoring.