Archive for the ‘SiteScope’ Category
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I've been working on a light weight performance monitoring solution which can be hosted on a LAMP (or WAMP, or OSX =) installation and uses the Google chart API to present data. Data is populated by custom Ruby scripts that either use ssh or perfmon (typeperf) to collect performance metrics ...
Posted in Statistics, Analysis, Tuning, SiteScope | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In working with SiteScope of late, I've found that it doesn't always collect performance metrics the way I want to. More importantly, it can often turn a simple monitoring activity into a complex disaster. Take monitoring via JMX for example. In SiteScope, it has a rather complicated (and sometimes broken) ...
Posted in LoadRunner, PHP, Perl, Solaris, Ruby, SiteScope | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
After getting nowhere with lack luster HP support, I turned to the power of the Open Source community and got a very simple script up and running to remotely monitor Weblogic JVM Performance and JMS queues using JMX and JRuby.
Despite having some initial issues with the code, the author of ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Ruby, Analysis, Weblogic, SiteScope | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Using JMX (Java Management Extensions) it is possible to monitor Managed Beans published by MBean servers. Weblogic (WL) provides MBeans for both admin and managed servers.
You can find out more info about WebLogic MBeans and accessing them with JMX here ...
Following are some augmented instructions for setting up JMX monitors ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Java, Weblogic, SiteScope | 9 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A colleague asked me the other day if it was possible to setup a workstation with just LoadRunner installed and have it automatically carry out a typical user transaction to determine the 'health' of the target server. After explaining to him that it would be a clunky approach at best, ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Tools, Automation, SiteScope | No Comments »
