List of Zones

Large infrastructures spanning geographies can pose quite a monitoring challenge owing to the number of components involved and their wide distribution. Administrators of such infrastructures might therefore prefer to monitor the infrastructure by viewing it as smaller, more manageable business units. In eG parlance, these business units are termed ZONES. A zone can typically comprise of individual components, segments, services, and/or other zones that require monitoring. For example, in the case of an infrastructure that is spread across the UK, USA, and Singapore, a zone named USA can be created consisting of all the components, segments, and services that are operating in the US branch alone. The USA zone can further contain an East-coast zone and a West-coast zone to represent infrastructure and services being supported on the two coasts of the US.

While a service/segment contains a group of inter-related components with inter-dependencies between them, a zone contains a group of components, services, segments, or zones that may/may not have inter-dependencies.

Besides being easier to manage, a zone assures administrators of more visibility into the infrastructure performance, and can enable them to focus on and control individual component/service performance in a much better manner.

To view zones, do the followiing:

1. Click on the icon available in the Admin tab. Then, select the Zones option in the Infrastructure tile.

2. A ZONES page will appear listing the existing zones. If no zones pre-exist, then a message to that effect will appear here.

3. To modify a zone, click on the icon corresponding to that zone. To delete a zone, click on the icon corresponding to it. To delete multiple zones at one shot, first mark the zones for deletion by selecting the check boxes corresponding to them. Then, click on the icon that is available just below the Add New Zone button. If a large number of zones have been configured, locating the zone to be modified/deleted would become quiet a challenge. This page therefore allows you to quickly search for a zone, by first specifying the whole/part of the zone name in the Search text box, and then clicking the icon in the text box. All zones with names that embed the specified string will then appear.

4. You can even change the name of a zone by clicking on the icon corresponding to it. Provide the New name for the selected zone in the RENAME ZONE popup window that appears and click the Rename button therein to register the new name. This will automatically change the zone name across the eG user interface.

   Note:

   Since renaming changes the name of a zone across the user interface, you will no longer be able to access performance data of the zone for the period prior to the name-change using the monitoring/reporting consoles. Therefore, exercise caution when renaming a zone.