In a production environment, the primary and secondary Operations Sentinel servers communicate with the instance of the Operations Sentinel MCP Interface running with the program name SINGLEPOINT through the two subports of port 10301. This provides a resilient environment for systems and operations management.
Sometimes, such as when testing new automation rules, it is useful to have one or two additional Operations Sentinel servers connected to a production host. This allows a thorough test of SP-AMS patterns and automated alarm actions with real production data before putting those patterns and actions into production. A second instance of the interface software, running with the program name SINGLEPOINTTEST, can provide this environment.
Note that SP-AMS actions may include sending commands to the MCP host. Because of the configuration setting ALLOW_AUTOMATED_KEYINS, only those commands coming from the primary Operations Sentinel server connected to program SINGLEPOINT will be delivered to the MCP. Any others will be discarded.
These connections are shown in Figure 1–2, in which arrows indicate logical connections rather than physical topology.
