Set performance monitoring levels
The monitoring settings determine which counters are enabled. Changes made to the settings from Tivoli Performance Viewer affect all applications that using the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
To change the monitoring levels for enterprise bean methods, see Set monitoring levels for enterprise bean methods.
To set monitoring settings, follow these steps:
Click Data Collection in the navigation tree.
Select one of these monitoring levels for your application server:
- None: Provides no data collection
- Standard: Enables data collection for all modules except enterprise bean method level data
- Custom: Allows customized settings for each module
(Optional) Fine tune the monitoring level settings. If you select the Custom monitoring setting, you can specify settings for each module.
- Click Specify.
- For each resource, select one of these monitoring levels:
- None
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Maximum
The window displays the counters that are enabled for each resource based on the monitoring level that you specify.
Note: When you set the monitoring level for a resource, the same level is set recursively for that resource's child resources. To override the setting for a child resource, set its level after you set the level for the parent resource.
Click OK.
Click Apply.
Set monitoring levels for enterprise bean methods
Because of the impact on performance, the Standard monitoring level does not include monitoring for individual remote methods.
To configure monitoring for individual methods, follow these steps:
- Click Data Collection in the navigation tree.
- In the Current Activity Settings, select Custom.
- Click Specify.
- Expand Enterprise Beans --> application_name --> bean_type --> bean_name --> Methods.
- Set the monitoring level to Maximum.
- Click OK.
- Click Apply.