Viewing Client Configuration Information

You can view information about client applications connected to your event broker service.

This topic includes the following tasks:

Viewing the Client Summary

The Clients Summary page displays general information about the activity, limits, and number of connections and clients. From the tabs on this page you can find detailed information about Solace, MQTT, REST, and AMQP clients and their transactions.

To view the summary page, perform these steps:

  1. Open Broker Manager. For instructions, see Using PubSub+ Broker Manager.
  2. Select Clients in the left navigation bar.


    The Clients Summary page displays data about all of the clients connected to the event broker service, including:

    • The number of incoming and outgoing connections.
    • The number of consumers, producers, and transactions connected to the event broker service.
    • The number of each type of client (SMF, Web, MQTT, Rest, AMQP) connected to the event broker service.
    • The configured limit, and percent of the limit being used for each type of connection or client.

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Viewing Client Details

The Solace Clients tab displays information about all clients connected to the event broker service.

To view information about a specific client, perform these steps:

  1. Select the Solace Clients tab.
  2. Click the name of the client you want to see more information for.

From this page you can perform several actions:

  • Select the Summary tab to view general information about your client. This tab displays the number of subscriptions, incoming and outgoing message rates, discards, and the scheduled disconnect time.
  • Select the Properties tab to view details and permissions about your client. This tab displays client and application details, eliding and delivery settings, as well as the number of incoming and outgoing flows.
  • Select the Connections tab to view the IP addresses on the client side of connections.
    • Click the arrow arrow icon next to a client address to view more information about the client address.
  • Select the Subscriptions tab to view client subscriptions and their Deliver-To-One (DTO) priorities. For more information, see Deliver-To-One.
  • Select the Consumers tab to view the connected consumers and their endpoint type.
  • Select the Producers tab to view the producers sending messages to the client.
  • Select the Stats tab to view detailed statistics about your client.
    • Data Rates—Track the rates of incoming and outgoing messages in messages per second and bytes per second.
    • Message Discards—Track the number of messages discarded from the client and the reason the message was removed.
    • Client Consumer Bind Statistics—Track the number of successful and failed consumer bind requests and the reason for failed attempts.
    • TLS Statistics—Track the number of login attempts with TLS certificates, the size of messages received and sent, in bytes, and the rate of incoming and outgoing messages, in bytes per second.
    • Messages—Track the number and size, in bytes, of messages received and sent.
  • Select the Transactions tab to view the client's transancted sessions. For more information, see Using Transacted Sessions.

MQTT Clients

The MQTT tab displays information about clients connected using Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT).

MQTT clients communicate with event broker services using the MQTT messaging protocol. An MQTT session is automatically created when an MQTT client connects to an event broker.

To view information about MQTT sessions, perform these steps:

  1. Select the MQTT tab.
  2. Select the MQTT Sessions tab.
  3. Click the name of your MQTT session to view more information about the session.
  4. From this page you can perform several actions: 
    • Select the Settings tab to view and configure settings for your session.
    • Select the Subscriptions tab to view and configure topic subscriptions for your session.
    • Select the Stats tab to view detailed statistics about your session.

For more information about MQTT, see Using MQTT.

REST Delivery Points

The REST tab displays information about clients connected using a REST Delivery Point (RDP).

RDP is a provisioned object on a message VPN that facilitates message delivery to REST consumers.

To view information about RDPs, perform these steps:

  1. Select the REST tab.
  2. Select the RDPs tab.
  3. Click the name of your RDP to view more information.

For information about creating and configuring REST Delivery Points, see Creating REST Delivery Points.

AMQP Clients

The AMQP tab displays information about clients connected using Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

AMQP clients communicate with event broker services using an open standard application layer protocol. For more information, see AMQP .