Populating the various views

Once an agent is monitoring you will see an entry in the Profiling Monitor View. The agent will be listed below its Process. In the following example, I have a Windows System Perfmon Agent that is currently monitoring and collecting data.

Profiling Monitor view demonstrating the PerfmonAgent monitoring and collecting data

Additionally the view is notifying us that the agent is executing on the localhost, and that this host is part of the logical collection monitor called DefaultMonitor. The selection in the Profiling Monitor is currently the process called Windows System with the PID: 3668. This selection implies that the agent control, statistical graph summaries, and statistical graphs view will display the data that is being collected by this agent. Selecting a host will populate the views with all the agents that are collecting or have collected data from that host. Similarly, selecting the monitor will populate the views with agents that lie below all the nodes in the monitor. In this example there is a single agent, and single node below the monitor.

If you wish to keep the Statistical Views populated with agent data that is not specific to your selection in the Profiling Monitor you can then clear the 'Link With Viewer' button - see the Link With Viewer button in the toolbar:

Link With Viewer icon

The views will no longer change with your selections in the Profiling Monitor until the Link With Viewer action is repressed.

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