25. Monitoring the Server

ID-Synch requires very little ongoing administration. It is advisable, however, to monitor server health.

Monitoring is primarily done on the ID-Synch server. You should:

• Check service health, using the Maintenance -$>$ Services menu option in the Central console (nph-psa.exe).

• Monitor CPU load and virtual memory consumption on the ID-Synch server. Both should be stable (change only very slowly) and significantly below the total resources available on the server.

• Monitor the amount of free disk on the ID-Synch server. ID-Synch will fail if it runs out of disk space (unlikely on a modern server).

• Check the text of PSUPDATE.LOG in the log file directory that you defined during ID-Synch setup (usually \Program Files\P-Synch\Logs\$<$instance name$>$). It should show that the automatic nightly process to collect account information from systems where ID-Synch manages accounts was successful.

• Review recent contents of the ID-Synch session log, by asking for reports on user and administrator events.

• Check the sizes of the ID-Synch databases. With the exception of log databases, they should have approximately constant sizes from day to day.