GemFire Management and Monitoring

vFabric GemFire provides APIs and tools for managing your distributed system and monitoring the health of your distributed system members.

• Management and Monitoring Features
  Beginning in the GemFire 7.0 release, GemFire uses a federated Open MBean strategy to manage and monitor all members of the distributed system. This strategy gives you a consolidated, single-agent view of the distributed system.
• Architecture and Components
  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 distributed system. All members in the distributed system are manageable through MBeans and GemFire Management Service APIs.
• JMX Manager Operations
  Any GemFire member can host an embedded JMX Manager, which provides a federated view of all MBeans for the distributed system. 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
  vFabric GemFire uses MBeans to manage and monitor different parts of GemFire. GemFire's federated MBean architecture is scalable and allows you to have a single-agent view of a GemFire distributed system.
• Configuring RMI Registry Ports and RMI Connectors
  GemFire programmatically emulates out-of-box Java 1.6 JMX 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.
• Management and Monitoring Programming Examples
  One example demonstrates the use of an MBean server to manage and monitor a node in a distributed system, and the other example acts as the managed node.