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PMI modules

You can monitor the performance of the applications with the performance monitoring infrastructure (PMI) modules.


objectGridModule

The objectGridModule contains a time statistic: transaction response time. A transaction is defined as the duration between the Session.begin method call and the Session.commit method call. This duration is tracked as the transaction response time. The root element of the objectGridModule, "root", serves as the entry point to the WebSphere eXtreme Scale statistics. This root element has ObjectGrids as its child elements, which have transaction types as their child elements. The response time statistic is associated with each transaction type.

Figure 1. ObjectGridModule module structure

ObjectGridModule module structure The following diagram shows an example of the ObjectGridModule structure. In this example, two ObjectGrid instances exist in the system: ObjectGrid A and ObjectGrid B. The ObjectGrid A instance has two types of transactions: A and default. The ObjectGrid B instance has only the default transaction type.

Figure 2. ObjectGridModule module structure example

ObjectGridModule module structure example Transaction types are defined by application developers because they know what types of transactions their applications use. The transaction type is set using the following Session.setTransactionType(String) method:

/**
* Sets the transaction type for future transactions.
*
* After this method is called, all of the future transactions have the
* same type until another transaction type is set. If  no transaction
* type is set, the default  TRANSACTION_TYPE_DEFAULT transaction type
* is used.
*
* Transaction types are used mainly for statistical data tracking purpose.
* Users can predefine types of transactions that run in an
* application. The idea is to categorize transactions with the same characteristics
* to one category (type), so one transaction response time statistic can be
* used to track each transaction type.
*
* This tracking is useful when the application has different types of
* transactions.
* Among them, some types of transactions, such as update transactions, process
* longer than other transactions, such as read−only transactions. By using the
* transaction type, different transactions are tracked by different statistics,
* so the statistics can be more useful.
*
* @param tranType the transaction type for future transactions.
*/
void setTransactionType(String tranType);

The following example sets transaction type to updatePrice:

// Set the transaction type to updatePrice
// The time between session.begin() and session.commit() will be
// tracked in the time statistic for "updatePrice".
session.setTransactionType("updatePrice");
session.begin();
map.update(stockId, new Integer(100));
session.commit();

The first line indicates that the subsequent transaction type is updatePrice. An updatePrice statistic exists under the ObjectGrid instance that corresponds to the session in the example. Using Java™ Management Extensions (JMX) interfaces, you can get the transaction response time for updatePrice transactions. You can also get the aggregated statistic for all types of transactions on the specified ObjectGrid instance.


mapModule

The mapModule contains three statistics that are related to eXtreme Scale maps:

The root element of the mapModule, "root", serves as the entry point to the ObjectGrid Map statistics. This root element has ObjectGrids as its child elements, which have maps as their child elements. Every map instance has the three listed statistics. The mapModule structure is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 3. mapModule structure

mapModule Module Structure The following diagram shows an example of the mapModule structure:

Figure 4. mapModule module structure example

mapModule Module Structure example


hashIndexModule

The hashIndexModule contains the following statistics that are related to Map-level indexes:

The root element of the hashIndexModule, "root", serves as the entry point to the HashIndex statistics. This root element has ObjectGrids as its child elements, ObjectGrids have maps as their child elements, which finally have HashIndexes as their child elements and leaf nodes of the tree. Every HashIndex instance has the three listed statistics. The hashIndexModule structure is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 5. hashIndexModule module structure

hashIndexModule structure The following diagram shows an example of the hashIndexModule structure:

Figure 6. hashIndexModule module structure example

hashIndexModule structure example


agentManagerModule

The agentManagerModule contains statistics that are related to map-level agents:

The root element of the agentManagerModule, "root", serves as the entry point to the AgentManager statistics. This root element has ObjectGrids as its child elements, ObjectGrids have maps as their child elements, which finally have AgentManager instances as their child elements and leaf nodes of the tree. Every AgentManager instance has statistics.

Figure 7. agentManagerModule structure

Root, objectgrid_name, map_name, agent_class_name

Figure 8. agentManagerModule structure example


queryModule

The queryModule contains statistics that are related to eXtreme Scale queries:

The root element of the queryModule, "root", serves as the entry point to the Query Statistics. This root element has ObjectGrids as its child elements, which have Query objects as their child elements and leaf nodes of the tree. Every Query instance has the three listed statistics.

Figure 9. queryModule structure

queryModule overview

Figure 10. QueryStats.jpg queryModule structure example

queryModule structure example


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