Open and Cached Sessions........................................................................................................

96

Time Slice Entries.......................................................................................................................

96

Saving Data................................................................................................................................

96

Console Tool Bar Buttons................................................................................................................

97

Console Menu Choices....................................................................................................................

97

The Monitor Menu.....................................................................................................................

98

Console Guide.................................................................................................................................

99

Status Bar.......................................................................................................................................

100

Setting Monitoring Session Preferences .............................................................................................

100

Specifying Metrics to Collect for Monitoring................................................................................

100

Enabling Monitoring Alerts...........................................................................................................

101

Specifying Filters for Monitoring .................................................................................................

102

Editing Filters...........................................................................................................................

102

Adding Filters...........................................................................................................................

102

Specifying Filter Sets................................................................................................................

103

Viewing Monitoring Data in HPjmeter...............................................................................................

103

Using Alerts........................................................................................................................................

103

Using the Alert Controller.............................................................................................................

105

Viewing a Log of the Alert History..........................................................................................

107

Editing E-mail Notification Attributes..........................................................................................

107

Responding to Alerts.....................................................................................................................

108

Abnormal Thread Termination Alert.......................................................................................

108

Uncaught Exception Statistics.............................................................................................

109

Excessive Compilation Alert....................................................................................................

110

Expected Out Of Memory Error Alert......................................................................................

110

GC Duration Notification.........................................................................................................

110

Heap Usage Notification..........................................................................................................

111

Java Collection Leak Locations Alert.......................................................................................

111

Array Leak Locations Alert......................................................................................................

112

Process CPU Usage Alert.........................................................................................................

113

System CPU Usage Alert..........................................................................................................

114

Thread Deadlock Alert.............................................................................................................

115

Unfinalized Queue Growth......................................................................................................

115

8 Using Visualizer Functions .......................................................................................

116

Visualizer Behavior When Monitoring Behavior or Analyzing Data.................................................

116

Locating Information About a JVM and its Environment..................................................................

117

Using Monitoring Displays.................................................................................................................

117

Monitor Code and/or CPU Activity Menu....................................................................................

118

Java Method HotSpots..............................................................................................................

118

Guidelines...........................................................................................................................

119

Details..................................................................................................................................

119

Thrown Exceptions...................................................................................................................

120

Thrown Exceptions with Stack Traces......................................................................................

120

Monitor Memory and/or Heap Activity Menu.............................................................................

122

Heap Monitor...........................................................................................................................

122

Guidelines...........................................................................................................................

122

Details..................................................................................................................................

123

Garbage Collections..................................................................................................................

123

Guidelines...........................................................................................................................

124

Details..................................................................................................................................

124

GC Duration.............................................................................................................................

124

Guidelines...........................................................................................................................

124

Details..................................................................................................................................

125

Percentage of Time Spent in Garbage Collection.....................................................................

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