Viewing performance metrics with the Tivoli Performance Viewer

This topic explains how you can use the Tivoli Performance Viewer to start and stop performance monitoring; view Performance Monitoring Infrastructure data in chart or table form as it occurs on your system; and, optionally, log the data to a file that you can later review in the same viewer.

Before you begin

It is assumed that one or more servers have been created and are running on the node, that the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) is enabled, and that the service component event points that you wish to monitor have been invoked at least once so that they can be selected from within the viewer.

Why and when to perform this task

The Tivoli® Performance Viewer (TPV) is a powerful application that allows you view a variety of details of all aspects of the performance of your process server. The section entitled "Monitoring performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer" in the WebSphere Application Server Version 6.0 Information Center contains details on how to use this tool for a variety of purposes, and you should consult this resource for complete instructions on using this program. This section will be limited to discussing the viewing of performance data for WebSphere® Process Server-specific events.

The performance viewer enables administrators and programmers to monitor the current health of WebSphere Process Server. Because the collection and viewing of data occurs on the process server, performance is affected. To minimize performance impacts, monitor only those servers whose activity you want to monitor.


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Last updated: Thu Apr 27 14:31:35 2006

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