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We can setup email notifications whenever an error occurs in MFT like failed connection to source or target etc. This is very useful feature of MFT. We had setup this monitoring for our MFT servers. We used to get below error frequently in production server while connecting to a 3rd party application.   Error occurred while polling the listening source XYZ Cause: Unexpected error occurred while polling the JCA source.                  Action: Review the diagnostic log for the exact error, which begins with the string 'ERROR:'. This error line, along with the preceding lines, indicates the reason for this exception. Contact Oracle Support Services if the problem persists. The endpoint here was the target system to which MFT transfers file. We had setup retry at target so transfers were retried whenever this error occurs. So, it didn’t have direct impact on business. But we used to get around 100 alerts mails with these connection errors. It was tiring experience to read and chec...

Scripts to monitor and managed Oracle Fusion Middleware applications are available at following github location:  https://github.com/RameshPoonati/oracleMiddlewareScripts Weblogic : Disable Diagnostic Modules Error Report Generation from logs Application/Deployment Monitoring http log monitoring JMS Bridge Monitoring JMS Consumer Monitoring Log Archiving JMS Queue Monitoring Server Monitoring Domain Startup/Shutdown Thread Dump Generation Thread Monitoring SOA Suite : Monitor Adapter Status Reference instance response time from audit trail ODI : Duplicate Execution Monitoring Oracle Service Bus (OSB) : OSB Proxy Status Change Shell Scripts : Disk Usage Monitoring

We can get all source and target hostnames configured in MFT following below steps: 1. Export MFT configuration from MFT console or using WLST command. Let us call this export hosts.txt. 2. Run below awk command to get list of configured host names: awk -F’host=’ ‘ { print $2 } ‘ hosts.txt | awk ‘ { print $1 } ‘ | sort  | uniq |  sed  ‘s/”//g’ > uniqhosts.txt