The Rhino Element Manager has the following main functional areas:

Tip More detailed instructions for each area can be found in the built-in help in REM.

REM Management

Rhino instances

REM can monitor and manage multiple Rhino instances at once.

The instances can be:

  • RhinoSDKs

  • Production Rhino clusters

  • different versions (as long as listed as a supported version in the REM documentation)

  • local or remote (as long as they are accessible by the REM server)

To manage Rhino instances in REM, select Edit Rhino Instances from the home page.

Note You must be logged in as a REM user that is assigned a role with the REM Feature: Edit Rhino Instances permission.

REM users and roles

REM has its own users and roles separate from those in Rhino.

REM users can be assigned one or more roles. Roles can be assigned permissions for various high-level REM features and given access to specific Rhino instances.

To manage REM users and roles, select Edit Element Manager Users and Roles from the home page.

Note You must be logged in as a REM user that is assigned a role with the REM Feature: Edit Users and Roles permission.

Rhino Management

To manage aspects of a specific Rhino instance:

Note When configuring a Rhino instance the admin password is located in <rhino installation>/client/etc/client.properties

1

Select Manage a Rhino Element from the home page.

2

Connect to a configured Rhino instance using the Connect to …​ dropdown in the main area or by clicking the New Connection link in the upper right.

Note You must be logged in as a REM user that is assigned a role with the REM Feature: Manage Element permission.

SLEE Management

REM allows one to view and modify a Rhino instance’s SLEE management state.

To view or modify SLEE management state:

1

Ensure you are in the Rhino Management area and connected to a Rhino instance.

2

Select an item from the Management menu.

This includes:

Item To

SLEE State

View current SLEE state; start/stop SLEE, services, and RA entities.

Alarms

View current alarms; clear alarms; log all alarms; rebroadcast all alarms.

Deployment

View deployed components; install new DUs; uninstall DUs; change component install levels.

Profiles

View profile tables, profiles, and profile data; create/delete profile tables; create/edit/delete profiles.

Resources

View resource adaptors and RA entities; create/edit/delete RA entities.

Services

View/start/stop services.

Usage

View/create usage parameter sets; view/enable/disable usage notifications.

Bindings

View/add/remove service bindings.

Component Priorities

View/edit component start/stop priorities.

Rhino Configuration

REM allows one to view and modify a Rhino instance’s runtime configuration.

To view or modify Rhino configuration:

1

Ensure you are in the Rhino Management area and connected to a Rhino instance.

2

Select an item from the Configuration menu.

This includes:

Item To

Threshold Rules

View/edit/create/delete/enable/disable threshold rules.

Rate Limiters

View/edit/delete rate limiters.

Licenses

View/install/remove licenses.

Logging

View/edit log levels; view/edit/create/remove appenders.

Pools

View/edit object pools.

Staging Queue

View/edit staging queue settings.

SNMP

View/edit SNMP configuration; enable/disable SNMP agent; view/edit OID and counter mappings.

Auditing

View/edit auditing level; view opcodes.

Domains

View replication domains.

Security Policy

View Rhino security policy.

Alarm Catalog

View information on alarms that could be raised.

Access Control

Manage Rhino roles and permissions; enable/disable permission logging.

Persistence

View/edit/delete persistence instances, persistence resources, and JDBC resources.

Inspecting state

REM allows one to inspect the state of a Rhino instance.

To inspect Rhino state:

1

Ensure you are in the Rhino Management area and connected to a Rhino instance.

2

Select an item from the Inspections menu.

This includes:

Item To

Activities

View and remove activities.

SBBs

View and remove SBBs.

Timers

View and remove timers.

Transactions

View and rollback long-running transactions.

Threads

View SLEE event router threads.

AC Bindings

View activity context bindings.

Monitoring

REM allows one to monitor the state of a Rhino instance.

To monitor a Rhino instance:

1

Ensure you are in the Rhino Management area and connected to a Rhino instance.

2

Select an item from the Monitoring menu.

This includes:

Item To

Dashboard

See a general overview instance state and statistics.

Tracing

Configure trace levels and monitor trace messages.

Statistics

Subscribe to and monitor statistics.

Logging

Monitor log messages.

Network Monitor

REM has a network monitor that can be used to monitor the health of multiple Rhino instances on one screen.

Select Monitor all Rhino Elements from the home page.

Note You must be logged in as a REM user that is assigned a role with the REM Feature: Monitor Elements permission.
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