Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.14 Administration Guide

Enabling Statistics

You must activate statistics on Proxy Server before you can monitor performance. You can activate statistics through the Server Manager, or by editing the obj.conf and magnus.conf files. Users who create automated tools or write customized programs for monitoring and tuning may prefer to work directly with stats-xml.


Caution – Caution –

When you enable statistics/profiling, statistics information is made available to any user of your server.


ProcedureTo Enable Statistics From the Server Manager

  1. Access the Server Manager, and click the Server Status tab.

  2. Click the Monitor Current Activity link.

    The Monitor Current Activity page is displayed.

  3. Select the Yes option for Activate Statistics/Profiling to enable statistics.

  4. Click OK.

  5. Click Restart Required.

    The Apply Changes page appears.

  6. Click the Restart Proxy Server button to apply the changes.

ProcedureTo Enable Statistics Using stats-xml

  1. Under the default object in the obj.conf file, add the following line:


    NameTrans fn="assign-name" name="stats-xml" from="
    (/stats-xml|/stats-xml/.*)"
  2. Add the following Service function to obj.conf:

    <Object name="stats-xml">

    Service fn="stats-xml"

    </Object>

  3. Add the stats-init SAF to the obj.conf.