Monitoring the Distribution Process

The Tiered Distribution View enables you to track a Distribution from its Distributor through any parent Subscribers down to the end node Subscriber. This helps you determine which Subscribers have received the Distribution, where they received it from, and when they received it. This, in turn, helps you troubleshoot and correct any problems that may occur during the distribution process. This capability is not available in ConsoleOne.

To access the Tiered Distribution View in iManager:

1. Click Roles and Tasks in the top frame > expand ZFS Management in the left frame > click Tiered Distribution View.

2. Browse to and select the Distribution you want to track > click Next.

3. Select the Channel through which you want to track the Distribution > click Next.

   The Distribution System window lists Subscribers that should receive the Distribution.

4. Click Expand All to display the routing hierarchy between the Distributor that built and sent the Distribution and the end node Subscribers that should have received it.

   or

   Click an individual server to expand its part of the hierarchy.

   Icons indicate the status of the Distribution:

   Icon	Meaning
   	The Distribution has been received and extracted successfully.
   	The Distribution has been received but not yet extracted. Check the Subscriber's extract schedule to see whether extraction has been attempted. If extraction was attempted and failed, check the Subscriber's event log to see what error occurred during extraction. See Managing the TED Agents from the Remote Web Console .
   	The Distribution was not successfully received by the Subscriber. Check the Subscriber's event log for an error message describing the problem. See Managing the TED Agents from the Remote Web Console .
   	The Distributor has not received any response from the Subscriber concerning the status of the Distribution. Check the status of the Subscriber and any parent Subscribers between it and the Distributor. See Managing the TED Agents from the Remote Web Console .
   	The Subscriber is running ZfS 2 software, rather than ZfS 3 software. Therefore, no status information is available in the Tiered Distribution View.

5. To display status information, select a Distributor or Subscriber > click Remote Web Console.

   For information about the types of status information you can obtain, see Monitoring Specific Agents .

6. To check configuration information, select a Distributor or Subscriber > click eDirectory Configuration.

   You can edit the Distributor or Subscriber object properties just as if you had clicked Edit TED Object under ZFS Management. The same property pages and options are available in iManager that are available in ConsoleOne, as described in Configuring TED Objects .