My Life With IT

I’m looking at Agent Monitor (DAF) by Joerg Reck. I like the fact that I don’t have to go to the databases to amend the codes so that the agent monitor can work. Sweet. I just click on Add Database and the system does all the necessary additions.

I’m still trying to figure out the Administration section though. I’m not sure why the information is mostly of the Agent Monitor. It took me some time to figure how to get to it, I had to click on Actions, Tool -> Administration. As I don’t have a development server to test the function, which is a real pity, I encountered this prompt in German. How very friendly. Thank goodness I understood the Formula used.

The next thing I’m trying to figure out is why there’s a web version of it. I can’t load it using local no matter what I tried. In the past, I thought it was something to do with FrontPage. Here, I have no use for FrontPage, so I can’t figure out why my Domino is unable to load the system for me to see the interface. Again, there are some information in German. So, why wasn’t it highlighted in the description?

I wanted to change the design so that it will notify more than 1 email but can’t seem to make it work. I think the rationale behind allowing to monitor some agents and not all to be sent via email makes sense. There are critical agents that do need to be monitored but not all of them needs to be emailed.

This monitor purges the log every 7 days by its scheduled agent. Once I manage to figure out how to make it from settings instead of by the agent itself, I shall have to see how I can make this work in the server.

I like its way of adding agents without having to amend the codes in the existing databases. Imagine having to modify 65 existing databases. I can faint.