We have already mentioned the UAG activation monitor back in Chapter 2, as it is used mostly to keep track of the activation process. This is a very important tool to be aware of, mostly for users who have used UAG's predecessors and want to test changes they made as soon as possible. This tool is even more important when dealing with Arrays, as the process of pushing configuration changes to other array members can take a significant amount of time, and testing configuration changes before they have been propagated to all members is futile.
Other than staring at the X (on the left-hand side of the activation monitor) and waiting for it to become a checkmark, there's very little to configure or do with the Activation Monitor, but one thing is good to know. All the tool does is performing a 'pulse-check'—it polls the servers for status, and so the servers may actually finish activation a short time before the tool shows it. The Activation Monitor is configured, by...