Monitoring Portal Server Performance

Monitoring provides runtime information about Portal Server's Desktop and Secure Remote Access components. The framework for maintaining system statistics is based on Java^TM Management Extensions (JMX^TM) technology.

Information collected from monitoring these components can help portal administrators do the following:

• Make appropriate tuning decisions

• Establish reliable benchmarks

• Deploy additional portal instances to support increased end-user activity on a portal

• Configure alarms to flag significant events (such as server thread pools reaching 95% utilization)

The Portal Server management console provides pages for configuring and generating reports about the how the Desktop and Secure Remote Access components perform. Administrators can use the command-line interface to perform other monitoring tasks. For information, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Command-Line Reference.