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Oracle® Traffic Director Administrator's Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0)

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13.1 Methods for Monitoring Oracle Traffic Director Instances

Table 13-1 summarizes the methods that you can use to view statistical data about an instance of a configuration and about individual virtual servers within an instance.

Table 13-1 Methods for Monitoring Oracle Traffic Director Instances

Monitoring Method Requirements Advantages

CLI

  • For one or all instances of a configuration: get-config-stats

  • For a specific instance:

    Summary in plain-text format: get-perfdump

    Detailed report in XML format: get-stats-xml

  • For a specific virtual server within one or all instances of a configuration: get-virtual-server-stats

  • For a specific origin-server pool: get-origin-server-stats

See Section 13.4, "Viewing Statistics Using the CLI."

Administration server must be running.

Enabled by default.

Accessible even when request-processing threads are hanging.

Browser

  • Detailed statistics for a specific virtual server in XML format

  • Summary report for a specific virtual server in plain-text format

See Section 13.5, "Viewing stats-xml and perfdump Reports Through a Browser."

Must be enabled and configured explicitly.

See Section 13.3, "Configuring URI Access to Statistics Reports."

The administration server need not be running. It is sufficient if the instance is running.

SNMP

Must be configured explicitly.

See Section 13.6, "Monitoring Using SNMP."

Statistics available through network management systems.