Monitoring Current Activity Using the perfdump Utility

The perfdump utility is a Server Application Function (SAF) built into Proxy Server that collects various pieces of performance data from the Proxy Server internal statistics and displays them in ASCII text. The perfdump utility enables you to monitor a greater variety of statistics than those available through the Server Manager.

With perfdump, the statistics are unified. Rather than monitoring a single process, statistics are multiplied by the number of processes, which gives you a more accurate view of the server as a whole.

Enabling the perfdump Utility

You can enable the perfdump SAF only after you have enabled the stats-xml function.

To Enable the perfdump SAF

1. Add the following object to your obj.conf file after the default object:

   <Object name="perf">

   Service fn="service-dump"

   </Object>

2. Add the following line to the default object:

   NameTrans fn=assign-name from="/.perf" name="perf"

3. Restart your server software.

4. Access perfdump by going to http://computer_name:proxyport/.perf.

   You can request the perfdump statistics and specify how frequently (in seconds) the browser should automatically refresh. The following example sets the refresh to every 5 seconds:

   http://computer_name:proxyport/.perf?refresh=5

Sample perfdump Output

The following example shows sample perfdump output

			 
proxyd pid: 6751

iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0 B05/02/2005 15:32 (SunOS DOMESTIC)

Server started Thu May 19 13:15:14 2005
Process 6751 started Thu May 19 13:15:14 2005

ConnectionQueue:
-----------------------------------------
Current/Peak/Limit Queue Length            0/1/4096
Total Connections Queued                   1
Average Queue Length (1, 5, 15 minutes)    0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Average Queueing Delay                     0.09 milliseconds

ListenSocket ls1:
------------------------
Address                   http://0.0.0.0:8081
Acceptor Threads          1

KeepAliveInfo:
--------------------
KeepAliveCount        0/256
KeepAliveHits         0
KeepAliveFlushes      0
KeepAliveRefusals     0
KeepAliveTimeouts     0
KeepAliveTimeout      30 seconds

SessionCreationInfo:
------------------------
Active Sessions           1
Keep-Alive Sessions       0
Total Sessions Created    48/128

DiskCacheInfo:
------------------
Hit Ratio               0/0 (  0.00%)
Misses                  0
Cache files at startup  0
Cache files created     0
Cache files cleaned up  0

Native pools:
---------------------------
NativePool:
Idle/Peak/Limit               1/1/128
Work Queue Length/Peak/Limit  0/0/0

Server DNS cache disabled

Async DNS disabled

Performance Counters:
------------------------------------------------
 ..........................Average         Total      Percent

Total number of requests:                      1
Request processing time:    0.2559        0.2559

default-bucket (Default bucket)
Number of Requests:                            1    (100.00%)
Number of Invocations:                         7    (100.00%)
Latency:                    0.2483        0.2483    ( 97.04%)
Function Processing Time:   0.0076        0.0076    (  2.96%)
Total Response Time:        0.2559        0.2559    (100.00%)

Sessions:
----------------------------
Process  Status     Function
6751     response   service-dump


            

For more information about these parameters, see “Using Statistics to Tune Your Server” on Chapter 2 of the Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide.

Restricting Access to the perfdump Output

If you want to limit the users who can view the perfdump statistics for your server from a browser you need to create an ACL for the /.perf URI .

The ACL file must also be referenced in the perf object definition in the obj.conf file. For example, if you created a named ACL for the /.perf URI, you would need to reference the ACL file in a PathCheck statement in the object definition as follows:

<Object name="perf">

PathCheck fn="check-acl" acl="perf.acl"

Service fn="service-dump"

</Object>