HPjmeter 4.2 User's Guide

Data from a session is saved by using the appropriate options on the command line when you
start your application.
• Collecting Profile Data (page 61)
• Setting Data Collection Preferences (page 36)
• Saving Monitoring Metrics Information (page 38)
Console Tool Bar Buttons
Open File
Select a previously saved monitor batch file, a snapshot
file, or a profile data file to view.
After opening a saved file, you can review data using the
menu metrics appropriate for the data file type.
Connect to Server
Launches the Connect To Server dialog so that you can
specify the name of the host and optional port of the target
that you want to monitor. You must specify a port number
if the node agent was started on a nonstandard port. See
Connect to the Node Agent from the Console (page 23)
for an example of the Connect to Server dialog box. You
can also refer to Connecting to the HPjmeter Node Agent
(page 197).
Save to Snapshot File
Allows you to save monitoring data from a live or cached
session to a snapshot file. You can then analyze the session
data later or send the data file to others for further analysis.
Open Session Preferences
Launches the Session Preferences window so that you
can change settings at the beginning of, or during (requires
Java 6), a monitoring session. To activate the Session
Preferences icon, first select an Open Session counter row
in the console data tree.
Open Alert Controller
Launches the Alert Controller so that you can change
thresholds and time sustained for available alert settings.
You can also set options for e-mail notification when alerts
occur. To activate the Alert Controller icon, first select an
Alerts counter row or click a specific alert listed in the
console data tree.
Close
Closes a selected monitoring session, deletes a connection
with a selected node agent, or removes a selected saved
data file entry from the data tree.
Console Menu Choices
The console menu bar contains these choices:
• File -- Contains selections corresponding to the buttons in the tool bar, plus Exit the HPjmeter
application.
• Edit -- Contains these commands:
— Look and Feel Preferences
Graphical user interface look-and-feel selections
— Window Preferences
◦ Remember Last Input File Directory on Exit
Click the menu item to toggle whether HPjmeter remembers the directory of the
last input file upon exit/restart of the console window. With this menu item enabled,
when you restart the console and do an Open File, it looks in the directory where
Using the Main Window Functions 97