Version

Argent Advanced Technology – All Versions

Date

Thursday, 22 February 2018

Summary

During the long work day, you have made several changes to Rules, Relators, Alerts, and Monitoring Groups

Saving the changes, you head home for the night, only to discover later none of your changes have replicated to the Daughter Engines and your company has been without vital enterprise monitoring for several hours

Confused, and a little worried about your job, you spend countless hours trying to figure out why your changes are not present on the Daughter Engines then realize you forgot to export out your Master Control Information

Technical Background

Argent Daughter Engine receives change commands via Master Control Information Export, a DAT file for each product placed within the Mother engines directory and picked up within five minutes of creation by all Daughter Engines

This export is not automatic and must be done manually from the Argent product’s Supervising Engine configuration page

To manually export:

1. Go to the Control Information -> Engine Manager – > Supervising Engine
2. Right click and choose ‘Export Master Control Information’

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Resolution

Remembering to export out Master Control Information manually can become a hassle

Argent believes automation is key in today’s world

To automate the export process:

1. Open ‘Regedit’ on the Mother Engine
2. Locate ‘AUTO_EXPORT_MOTHER_CONTROL_INFO’ registry key
   • On 64 bit servers, the key is located in HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node/Argent/{Argent_Product}
   • On 32 bit servers, the key is located in HKLM/Software/ Argent/{Argent_Product}
3. The default registry value is 0, disabling automatic export

   The value can be changed to a value range of 30 to 300 seconds

   Argent recommends 300 seconds

4. Once enabled the Mother Engine will automatically export the Master Control Information for ALL Daughter Engines to pick up at the set interval
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each Argent product