CLOUDSTACK-5972 global param
diff --git a/en-US/vr-monitor.xml b/en-US/vr-monitor.xml index 5669b51..2034cea 100644 --- a/en-US/vr-monitor.xml +++ b/en-US/vr-monitor.xml
@@ -25,23 +25,28 @@ <title>Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router</title> <para>Various services running on the &PRODUCT; virtual routers can be monitored by using a Service Monitoring tool. The tool ensures that services are successfully running until &PRODUCT; - deliberately disables them. If a service goes down, the tool automatically restarts the VR, and - if that does not bring up the VR, an alert as well as an event is generated indicating the - failure.</para> + deliberately disables them. If a service goes down, the tool automatically restarts the service, + and if that does not help bringing up the service, an alert as well as an event is generated + indicating the failure. A new global parameter, + <code>network.router.enableservicemonitoring</code>, has been introduced to control this + feature. The default value is false, implies, monitoring is disabled. When you enable, ensure + that the Management Server and the router are restarted.</para> <para>Monitoring tool can help to start a VR service, which is crashed due to an unexpected reason. For example:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para>The services crashed due to defects in the source code.</para> + <para>The services crashed due to the defects in the source code.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The services that are terminated by the OS when memory or CPU is not sufficiently available for the service.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> + <para/> <note> <para>Only those services with daemons are monitored. The services that are failed due to errors in the service/daemon configuration file cannot be restarted by the Monitoring tool.</para> + <para>VPC networks are not supported.</para> </note> <para/> <para>The following services are monitored in a VR:</para> @@ -60,13 +65,16 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>The following networks are supported:</para> - <itemizedlist> + <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Isolated Networks</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Shared Networks in both Advanced and Basic zone</para> </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + </itemizedlist> + <note> + <para>VPC networks are not supported.</para> + </note> <para>This feature is supported on the following hypervisors: XenServer, VMware, and KVM.</para> </section>