Monitoring allows you to view the progress of a configuration that is running, or the state of the online server. Monitoring has objects called counters. Counters have the following properties:

• identification
• value
• max value
• unit of value

The counters create a hierarchy. The root elements are:

• connection
• step
• server component (if connected to an online server)

Under the connection root element, there are counters that apply to each connection:

• progress. The number of records that have gone through the connection.
• started. The datetime of the first record.
• finished. The datetime of the closure.

The format of the identification property of the connection counter is as follows:

target_endpoint_name,target_algorithm_name,
source_endpoint_name,source_algorithm_name

Under the step root element, there are counters and hierarchies of counters connected to steps. Only some of the steps have counters, and each step can have a different set of counters, depending on what progress is necessary to report. The name of the step is in the identification property.

The counters can be reported either to a file, using the FileLoggerComp run-time component (only when connected to a batch), or to the Graphical User Interface (GUI).