Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide

Agent Statistics Module Version 2.0

This section presents the following information on Agent Statistics:

The Agent Statistics module monitors the health of the agent installed on a host. This module monitors the objects, processes, and execution of processes by the agent.

Table C–104 Agent Statistics Main Sections

Agent Statistics Tables 

Description 

Object Section 

Displays data on the objects that are loaded onto the agent. Status field displays the current status of the TOE and binary objects loaded into and used by the agent.  

Execution Section 

Displays data on the number of Tcl or TOE commands invoked by the agent interpreter. Also displays data on the number of asynchronous transactions initiated by the agent. Status field displays a brief description of the current status of the objects listed.  

The following table provides a brief description of the Agent Statistics managed objects.

Table C–105 Agent Statistics Section Properties

Property 

Description 

Object Statistics 

TOE Count – Number of TOE objects loaded into the agent binary object buffer 

Count – Number of binary object buffers used by the agent 

Commands Executed 

Total – Total number of commands that have been executed by the agent 

Rate (#/sec) – Number of commands executed by the agent per second 

Transactions Performed 

Total – Total number of transactions performed by the agent 

Rate (#/sec) – Number of transactions performed by the agent per second  

PA Process Statistics 

Process statistics pertaining to the PA 

PA Total Process Statistics 

Total process statistics pertaining to the PA  

The following lists default alarm thresholds for applicable Agent Statistics modules.

Table C–106 Agent Statistics Alarm Thresholds

Agent Statistics  

Condition 

Error 

If toeCount > 6000  

Warning 

If toeCount > 5000  

Error 

If bobcount > 1200 

Warning 

If bobcount > 1000 

Warning 

If commands rate > 6000 

Warning 

If transactions rate > 8 

Error 

If process size > 35000 

Warning 

If process size > 30000 

Error 

If rss > 25000 

Warning 

If percentage CPU time > 90 

Warning 

If totalstats.count > 15 

Error 

If totalstats.size > 40000 

Warning 

If totalstats.size > 35000 

Warning 

If totalstats.rss > 35000 

The following sections describe the individual property tables for Agent Statistics.

Object Statistics Table

The Objects section displays information about the Objects that are loaded onto the agent. The Status field displays the current status of the TOE and binary objects loaded into and used by the agent.

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for Object Statistics.

Table C–107 Object Statistics Properties

Property 

Description 

Total TOE Objects 

Number of TOE objects loaded into the agent  

Total Bobs 

Number of binary object buffers used by the agent  

Commands Executed Table

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for commands executed.

Table C–108 Executed Commands Properties

Property 

Description 

Total Commands 

Total number of commands that have been executed by the agent 

Rate (/sec) 

Number of commands executed by the agent per second 

Transactions Performed Table

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for performed transactions.

Table C–109 Transactions Performed Properties

Property 

Description 

Total Transactions 

Total number of transactions performed by the agent  

Transaction Rate (/sec) 

Number of transactions performed by the agent per second  

Sun Management Center Process Statistics Table

The software monitors the Sun Management Center process statistics. The following table provides a brief description of the properties for Sun Management Center process statistics.

Table C–110 Sun Management Center Process Statistics Properties

Property 

Description 

Process ID 

Identification number of the process  

Process Unique Id 

Unique identification number of the process 

Process Name 

Name of the process 

Process Status 

Status of the process 

Process State 

State of the process 

User ID 

User ID of the process 

Virtual Size 

Total size of the process 

Resident Set Size 

Resident size of the process 

Start Time Seconds 

Startup time of the process in seconds since January 1, 1970 

Start Date 

Startup date of the process 

Start Time 

Startup time of the process 

CPU Time 

CPU time used by the process 

Percent CPU Time 

Percentage of CPU time used by the process 

Context Switches 

Context switches of the process 

System Calls 

System calls made by the process 

Command Line 

Command line of the process 

Sun Management Center Total Process Statistics Table

The software monitors the total Sun Management Center process statistics.

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for total Sun Management Center process statistics.

Table C–111 Total Sun Management Center Process Statistics Properties

Property 

Description 

Number of Processes 

Number of agent and child processes 

Total Virtual Size 

Total virtual size of agent and children 

Total Res Size 

Total resident set size of agent and children