Gateway Manager features

You can access Gateway Manager by navigating to Administration > Gateway Manager.

To access Gateway Manager, a BMC Helix Continuous Optimization user must be assigned a role with one of the following activities:

• general_manager_read: Enables read-only access to Gateway Manager; the user cannot start, stop, or create new runs.
• general_manager_write: Enables full access to Gateway Manager; the user can start, stop, or create new runs.

For information about assigning roles and permissions, see Default-user-roles-and-permissions.

Gateway Manager operations

Using Gateway Manager, you can perform the following operations for Gateway Servers:

• Gateway Server: After the Gateway Service is enabled, add the Gateway Servers that you want to manage. The Gateway Server Management feature of Gateway Manager enables you to keep a tab of the Gateway Servers that you are managing. Using this feature, you can add Gateway Servers, remove them, and check their status. Using Gateway Manager, you can manage Gateway Server. Use the Managed agents page to view the list of agent lists. For more information, see:
  • Adding-removing-and-inspecting-Gateway-Server-details
  • Managing Agent list
  • Viewing-Managed-agents
• Gateway Operations- Several manager runs run on a Gateway Server. These runs collect, transfer, process, and populate data. Gateway Manager enables you to schedule, monitor, recover, create, and abort the manager runs for multiple Gateway Servers. This feature enables you to control the manager runs for a Gateway Server irrespective of the Gateway Server operating system. Using Gateway Manager, you can perform the following Gateway Server Operations activities.
  
  • Viewing-scheduled-Manager-runs
  • Creating-new-Manager-runs
  • Scheduling-new-Manager-runs
  • Stopping-scheduled-Manager-runs
  • Recovering-the-Manager-runs
  • Gateway-Server-configuration
• Gateway Reports- Gateway Manager generates reports that help you to track the performance of the Gateway Servers and manager runs. Using Gateway Manager, you can view the following Gateway Server reports.
  • Agent History
  • Exception Report  - You can sort the exception report. This allows you to see everything that failed for a particular column.

• Gateway-Manager-Logs - You can use Gateway Manager to view Manager run logs.

For information about how to use Gateway Manager, see Creating-new-Manager-runs.