Sun Microsystems 820433510 manual Monitoring Components and Services, About Monitoring

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Monitoring Components and Services

This chapter contains information about monitoring components using the Enterprise Server Admin Console. This chapter contains the following sections:

■“About Monitoring” on page 171

■“Enabling and Disabling Monitoring” on page 191

■“Viewing Monitoring Data” on page 193

■“Using JConsole” on page 209

About Monitoring

■“Monitoring in the Enterprise Server” on page 171

■“Overview of Monitoring” on page 172

■“About the Tree Structure of Monitorable Objects” on page 172

■“About Statistics for Monitored Components and Services” on page 175

Monitoring in the Enterprise Server

Use monitoring to observe the runtime state of various components and services deployed in a server instance of theEnterprise Server. With the information on the state of runtime components and processes, it is possible to identify performance bottlenecks for tuning purposes, aid capacity planning, predict failures, do root cause analysis in case of failures, and ensure that everything is functioning as expected.

Turning monitoring on reduces performance by increasing overhead.

You can also use management rules to alert you of potential problems with your server, and optionally take action when the server reaches certain performance thresholds. For more information, see Chapter 19, “Configuring Management Rules.”

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