The Health Debugger

Several objects modeled by PlateSpin

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Orchestrate have a health fact that can be used to visually show the health of the object or to trigger a job (see

Chapter 3, “The PlateSpin Orchestrate Job

Scheduler,” on page 25

) upon a state change. This fact can optionally be manually set, or more usually automatically set through the periodic execution of the health constraint placed on that object. When such a health constraint is active, you might need to debug to discover the reasons for the changed state. The Health Debugger is a useful debugging tool.

The Health Debugger is a tabbed page (sometimes called an “admin view”) available in several views of the PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client and functions much like the more generic

“Policy Debugger.” This tool helps you to determine the reasons for the current Health of a Grid object. The following figure shows the Health Debugger tab opened in the Resource object view of the Orchestrate Development Client.

Figure 6-1

PlateSpin Orchestrate Jobs View with the Health Debugger Page Open

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The Health Debugger tab is also available in the VM Host object view, the Repository object view and in the User object view of the Orchestrate Development Client.

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Section 6.1, “The Constraints Table Panel,” on page 127

Section 6.2, “The Facts Table View,” on page 130

Section 6.3, “Health Debugger Use Cases,” on page 131

6.1 The Constraints Table Panel

The left side of the Health Debugger page is referred to as the Constraints Table view.

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