Creating a performance monitoring agent - Perfmon Launch Configuration
Creating a Perfmon Launch Configuration
To launch a new Perfmon Agent using the Profiling Launch
Configurations:
NOTE that all the agents (Windows, Linux, JBoss, and Jonas) work in exactly the same way and
this help section details a Windows perfmon specific example.
- Make sure you have a Project in your workspace to hold the trace data
- Switch to the profiling perspective using Window > Open Perspective > Other > Profiling and Logging
- Open the Launch Configurations dialog using Run > Profile

- Right-click on Host - Windows (Perfmon) and select New

- Enter a name for the configuration in the Name: field
- Select the Project you wish to store the trace data in using the Browse
button next to the Statistical Model container field
- Select
the host to be used and (if necessary) click Apply, then Profile
- The Agent Controller
must be running on the machine specified in Connect to this host.
- If the performance
objects are required for the machine on which Hyades is actually running
(i.e. localhost), you do not need to change any information in the dialog
box.
- If the performance
objects from a remote machine are required, select Connect to remote
registry and type the name or IP address of the remote machine. Note
: use the Perfmon format for specifying the remote machine, i.e. preceed
the host name or IP address with double backslashes, e.g.
"\\192.168.1.23" or "\\smithy".
- The Profiling
Monitor view will open and after a short while you will see the agent
appear

- To configure the Perfmon counters you wish to trace, right click on the agent node select
Configure Statistical Data Collection Counters. A counter configuration dialog will appear.

Note : in the case of a
performance trace node, only the highest level performance objects are
initially displayed. These highest level performance object are typically not
actually metrics, but rather containers for related metrics. To expose the
actual metrics you must recursively request the children of a particular
performance object until its metrics are displayed. To request the children of
a performance object, select Get Child Counters from its pop-up menu and
then wait for the "+" symbol to appear beside the performance object
in the tree to indicate that its children have been retrieved.
Related concepts
Statistical Console
Related tasks
Creating a performance trace
Configuring performance objects
Starting and stopping a trace
Viewing statistical models
Perfmon Launch Configuration
Creating a new statcon file for performance trace
Related reference
Statistical Console graphs and tables
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