Adding, removing, and inspecting Gateway Server details

After the Gateway Service is enabled, add the Gateway Servers that you want to manage. The Gateway Server Management feature enables you to manage the Gateway Servers. Using this feature, you can:

• Add a Gateway Server
• Remove a Gateway Server
• Check the status of available Gateway Servers

To view the Gateway Servers, select Administration > Gateway Manager > Gateway Servers. For more information, see the following sections:

• • • Viewing Gateway Servers
    • Viewing details of a Gateway Server
    • Adding a Gateway Server
    • Deleting a Gateway Server
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  • Where to go from here

Viewing Gateway Servers

To view the Gateway Servers:

Select Administration > Gateway Manager > Gateway Servers.
The Gateway Server page displays the Gateway Servers table that has the following information:

Viewing details of a Gateway Server

To view details of a Gateway Server:

Select Administration > Gateway Manager > Gateway Servers > gatewayserverName.
The Gateway Server Details page is displayed that has the following information:

On the Gateway Server Details page, you can also:

• View and manage ETLs. For more details, see Automatically-creating-ETLs.
• View and manage gateway server agent list. For more details, see Managing-the-Gateway-Server-agent-list.
• Manage process rollup. For more details, see Managing process rollup.

Adding a Gateway Server

To add a Gateway Server:

1. Select Administration > Gateway Manager > Gateway Servers.
2. In the Gateway Servers table, click Add gateway server.
3. Specify the following information:
   1. Gateway Server Name: Enter the name of the Gateway Server you want to manage through TrueSight Capacity Optimization.
   2. Port Number: Retain the default port number to connect to the Gateway Server. The default port is 10129. 
   3. Service Daemon Port: Retain the default service daemon port to start the Gateway Server remotely. 
      This feature is currently supported for Unix only. On Windows, the Gateway Server runs as a Windows service.
   4. Server configured for HTTPS connection: Select this check box and specify the port number to configure the HTTPS communication between the Gateway Server and the Application Server. The default port for HTTPS is 10130.
   5. Auto create ETLs to populate data from this Gateway Server: Retain the default selection to create a BMC-TrueSight-Capacity-Optimization-Gateway-VIS-files-parser ETLs to load data from the scheduled Manager runs of this Gateway Server.
4. Click Add.
   The TrueSight Capacity Optimization Wizard is displayed.
5. Configure the ETL parameters in the wizard. For information about the configuration parameters, see BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization wizard.
   The Gateway Servers page displays the name of newly added Gateway Server.

Deleting a Gateway Server

To delete a Gateway Server from Gateway Manager:

1. Select Administration > Gateway Manager > Gateway Servers.
2. In the Gateway Servers table, click  to delete the required Gateway Server.
   To delete all Gateway Servers, select Actions > Delete gateway servers.

Where to go from here

• Automatically-creating-ETLs
• Managing-the-Gateway-Server-agent-list