Downloading and Installing DTrace Monitoring

DTrace Monitoring is available under an evaluation licence from the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Manager DTrace Monitoring download page.

Requirements for Downloading DTrace Monitoring

Before you can download and install DTrace Monitoring, you must have a Sun Online Account.

To Install DTrace Monitoring

Before You Begin

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• The DTrace Monitoring distribution file is downloaded from the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Manager DTrace Monitoring download page.

• The following software is installed on your machine:

  • Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3

  • JDK^TM release 7

• Enterprise Server uses JDK release 7.

JDK release 7 is available for download from the Java Early Access Downloads site.

1. Change to the directory to which you downloaded the ZIP file.

   cd download-dir

   download-dir is the directory where you downloaded the ZIP file.

2. Unzip the ZIP file.

   unzip monitoring_dtrace-3_0-beta.zip

   When you unzip the file, a directory that is named monitoring_dtrace is created within the current directory. This new directory contains a subdirectory that is named lib, which contains the glassfish-dtrace.jar file.

3. Copy the glassfish-dtrace.jar file to the Enterprise Server modules directory.

   cp monitoring_dtrace/lib/glassfish-dtrace.jar as-install/modules

   as-install is the directory in which Enterprise Server is installed.

4. If necessary, start an administrative domain.

   asadmin start-domain domain

   domain is the name of the administrative domain to start.

5. Enable support for DTrace monitoring in Enterprise Server.

   asadmin set configs.config.server-config.monitoring-service.dtrace-enabled=true