Collecting Portal Server Monitoring Data

Monitoring collects seven types of data requests received by the Desktop. Each type of request is represented as MBean with type DesktopRequestStatistic, and name MBean property as the request type. For example, type=DesktopRequestStatistics,name=Content name properties help identify Desktop content request statistics.

Desktop Statistics

The seven types of requests are explained in the following list:

Content

The number of times Desktop successfully served content requests, and the time taken for it.

Edit

The number of times Desktop successfully served edit requests , and the time taken for it.

Exception

The number of times Desktop could not serve a request due to some exception during request processing. Exception information is logged in portal server log files.

LocalAuth

The number of times Desktop responded to local authentication requests.

Logout

The number of times user logged out from portal server, and how long it took to log out

PreLogin

The number of times Desktop responded to pre-login requests.

Process

The number of times Desktop processed edit requests, and the time taken for it

You can view the Desktop statistics from the portal management console.

Channel Statistics

Each type of channel action is represented as MBean with type ChannelActionStatistic along with additional name properties that identify the channel. To know the full MBean name, use the command psadmin get-monitoring-mbean-names.

Portal Desktop presents cached content view for a channel based on time-out channel property

The types of channel actions that are monitored for each Desktop channel are explained in the following list:

Content

The number of times channel provider successfully generated the content view, and the response time for it.

Edit

The number of times channel provider successfully presented the edit view, and the response time for it.

Process

The number of times channel provider processed the edit view.

You can view the Desktop statistics from the portal management console.