IFS Connect Administration

IFS Connect Administration features will allow the administration user to explore messages in the Message Queues and the Message Archive. It also provides the ability to restart failed messages and to start/stop Application Server background tasks.
There is also a concept of Monitoring and Troubleshooting that is very important for the administrator to have knowledge about.  

IFS Connect contains administration clients for:

• Exploring all Message queues.  Ability to restart failed messages
• Searching messages in the Message Archive
• Handling all Application Server Tasks. Ability to view, start, and stop of the tasks.

Contents

• Application Messages
  Message queues are the place holders of Application Messages.
  IFS Connect Message Queues are used for different purposes, such as:
  • Storage of messages when they are processed asynchronously
  • Storage of background jobs
  • Storage of events
• Message Archiving
  Message Archive in IFS Connect is a separate placeholder for archived messages. System administrators can use message archiving functionality to move processed and older application messages to Message Archive for future reference.
• Application Server tasks
  IFS Connect includes background and scheduling services called Application Server Tasks.
• Monitoring
  When running an IFS Connect installation it's suitable to setup notification messages
  that will be sent to the system administrator when something goes wrong in the system.
• Troubleshooting
  IFS Connect provides the ability to configure output of debug/trace to files for all parts of the Connect functionality.