Title: About Troubleshooting Amazon EC2 Describe the issue: > EC2 does not provide any method out of the box to indicate an instance has started correctly and services are running properly. > Use of an external system for monitoring and management is recommended. Suggestions for improvement: > EC2 provides instance Alarm Status to indicate severe machine instance malfunction but this is not enough to indicate an instance has started correctly and services are running properly. > It is possible to use Amazon CloudWatch with its custom metric functionality to monitor instance services health but use of an enterprise management solution for instance monitoring and management is recommended. Additional information:
I have flagged this EAP 6.1.1 '?' as it's easily fixed and publishable within the EAP 6.1.1 documentation.
I have amended the text of this section, clarifying the monitoring options available. When the amended revision is available on Docstage I will set this ticket to ON_QA.
The amended text can be validated at [1]. Before validating this change, confirm that you're viewing revision 1.0-58 or later. [1] http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.1.1/html-single/Administration_and_Configuration_Guide/index.html#About_Troubleshooting_Amazon_EC2
Hello Russel, the text looks good to me except > including JBoss EAP 6 and its services: Tomcat, Httpd, PostgreSQL, etc. I think we can't call Tomcat, Httpd, PostgreSQL services of EAP. I'd just list them like: > including JBoss EAP 6, Tomcat, Httpd, PostgreSQL, etc. IIRC we are shipping httpd as part of the EAP RPM channels but I don't think this makes it a service of EAP. Tomcat and PostgreSQL are completely separate packages of RHEL.
This can be verified here: http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.3/html-single/Administration_and_Configuration_Guide/index.html#About_Troubleshooting_Amazon_EC2
As per feedback in comment 10 I have made the following changes to the topic: About Troubleshooting Amazon EC2 [9375] 1. Split topic into two paragraphs. 2. Reworded description of monitoring JBoss EAP with JON. 3. Added a reference to the topic "About AMI Monitoring". When the amended book is available for verification I will change this BZ ticket to ON_QA. The amended text will be available in the "Administration and Configuration Guide", revision 6.3.0-24 (or later) at [1]. [1] http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.3/html-single/Administration_and_Configuration_Guide/index.html#About_Troubleshooting_Amazon_EC2
The amended text is now available in the "Administration and Configuration Guide", revision 6.3.0-25 (or later) at [1]. Refer to comment 11 for details of changes implemented. [1] http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.3/html-single/Administration_and_Configuration_Guide/index.html#About_Troubleshooting_Amazon_EC2
Verified in Revision 6.3.0-25