iWay Sentinel Overview

iWay Sentinel uses Single Pane of Glass (SPOG) as a web-based interface to manage and monitor iWay Service Manager (iSM) instances, which are installed across an enterprise. Sentinel provides capabilities to detect failures in server status, message transmission, and performance issues across one or more instances of iSM. iWay Sentinel consists of two major components:

Sentinel is the core component of the application, which can be accessed from the browser. Envoy is the component that runs on top of iSM and provides the connectivity between Sentinel and iSM.

Sentinel provides monitoring functions, such as server connectivity status, health status for servers, applications, and channels based their success, failures, and performance. Sentinel also assigns the health status to servers, applications, and channels by comparing the health statistics among them based on a customizable algorithm. Through Sentinel, users can start and stop the servers, applications, channels, and change properties. In addition, Sentinel enables users to monitor the performance of JVM at the memory and thread level for the server and component functions.

Sentinel simplifies management functionality, such as deploying applications, installing patches, and modifying the packages and components of iWay applications across multiple iWay servers. Servers and applications can be categorized in different groups, and management functions can be executed on top of them. You can also schedule specific tasks to execute at different days and times of the week as required. Sentinel allows users to view the status and queues related to the completed, ongoing, and pending status for the tasks.

Sentinel includes a repository to store iWay artifacts, such as applications, packages, and other deployable components. A key feature of SPOG is the ability to manage functions, which can be executed using Java scripts. Automated scripts combined with scheduling functionality allows enterprises to carry out their deployment functionality in the background, without human intervention.