HPjmeter 4.3 User's Guide

JVM Agent.................................................................................................................112
Open and Cached Sessions.........................................................................................113
Time Slice Entries........................................................................................................113
Saving Data...............................................................................................................113
Console Tool Bar Buttons..................................................................................................114
Console Menu Choices.....................................................................................................115
The Monitor Menu.......................................................................................................116
Console Guide................................................................................................................116
Status Bar.......................................................................................................................117
Setting Monitoring Session Preferences ...................................................................................117
Specifying Metrics to Collect for Monitoring........................................................................118
Enabling Monitoring Alerts................................................................................................119
Specifying Filters for Monitoring ........................................................................................120
Editing Filters..............................................................................................................120
Adding Filters.............................................................................................................121
Specifying Filter Sets....................................................................................................121
Viewing Monitoring Data in HPjmeter......................................................................................121
Using Alerts.........................................................................................................................121
Using the Alert Controller..................................................................................................123
Viewing a Log of the Alert History.................................................................................125
Editing E-mail Notification Attributes...................................................................................125
Responding to Alerts........................................................................................................126
Abnormal Thread Termination Alert...............................................................................126
Uncaught Exception Statistics...................................................................................127
Excessive Compilation Alert..........................................................................................128
Expected Out Of Memory Error Alert.............................................................................128
GC Duration Alert.......................................................................................................128
Heap Usage Alert.......................................................................................................129
Java Collection Leak Locations Alert...............................................................................129
Array Leak Locations Alert............................................................................................130
Process CPU Usage Alert..............................................................................................131
System CPU Usage Alert..............................................................................................132
Thread Deadlock Alert.................................................................................................133
Unfinalized Queue Growth...........................................................................................133
8 Using Visualizer Functions ......................................................................134
Visualizer Behavior When Monitoring Behavior or Analyzing Data.............................................134
Locating Information About a JVM and its Environment..............................................................135
Using Monitoring Displays.....................................................................................................135
Monitor Code and/or CPU Activity Menu...........................................................................136
Java Method HotSpots.................................................................................................136
Guidelines.............................................................................................................137
Details..................................................................................................................137
Thrown Exceptions.......................................................................................................138
Thrown Exceptions with Stack Traces..............................................................................138
Monitor Memory and/or Heap Activity Menu......................................................................140
Heap Monitor.............................................................................................................140
Guidelines.............................................................................................................140
Details..................................................................................................................141
Garbage Collections...................................................................................................141
Guidelines.............................................................................................................142
Details..................................................................................................................142
GC Duration..............................................................................................................142
Guidelines.............................................................................................................142
Details..................................................................................................................143
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