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| Dashboard | Lets you quickly visualize the overall health and status of all instrumented application server instances. The Dashboard workspace provides support for detailed views of individual application servers, as well as top-level summary views of multiple application servers. See “About About the Dashboard workspace” on page 19workspace. |
| Activity | Lets you investigate your JVM execution tree in a deep or shallow manner, and to track SQL execution, locks and exceptions in the same manner. See “About About the Activity workspace” on page 22workspace. |
| Memory & Statistics | Lets you examine Application Server metrics. See “About About the Statistics workspace” on page 39workspace. |
You can easily switch between the different workspaces using the Workspace Selection bar. See “Switching Switching to a different workspace” on page 14workspace.
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Though each workspace is structured differently, most workspaces consist of a Precise bar, workspace selection bar, workspace bar, and two areas - : the Main area and the Association area. The Main area (left or top pane) features either a table or a tree view of all monitored J2EE instances, and the Association area (right or bottom pane) includes various workspace specific tabs that display information in various formats, such as tables, graphs, or charts.
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In most workspaces, the left or top area is the Main area. This area displays an overview of all instances monitored by your Precise product. This information can be displayed in either graph, table, or tree format. The time frame that the information is displayed for can be seen in the workspace toolbar, alongside the selected instance name (and drop-down menu) and auto-refresh status. The times displayed are the local times on the FocalPoint server where the page was generated.
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The Association area displays in-depth information for the entity selected in the Main area. Each workspace has analysis tabs specific for that workspace. As you navigate through Precise for J2EE, the analysis tabs change to enable you to view specific information relevant to the selected workspace and entity.
For example, the following analysis tabs are available in the Dashboard workspace:
- Overview
- Memory & CPU
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For selected workspaces in Precise products, the association area includes the Findings area, displaying problematic findings for the application. The findings feature is a high level tool, designed to provide the user with an overview of performance issues within the monitored application and enable quick and efficient navigation to the relevant tab for further analysis and handling. The displayed performance findings may indicate performance deteriorations as well as incorrect methods usage. Each finding appears as a row in the displayed table of findings. Hover the mouse indicator over the single-line displayed finding to expand the finding. When expanded, the finding details area provides important guidelines as to what may be the root cause for the reported problem, and what the recommended steps are to resolve this problem.
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For more information, see “Examining findings” on page 49 Examining Precise for J2EE findings.
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The term ‘in"in-context’ context" means that you can display additional information on a selected item by drilling down to another workspace or view. The filter settings you defined (for example, the selected time frame you chose) and the entity you selected are carried over to the other view or workspace, to allow you to continue analyzing your subject from a different perspective. This concept takes on slightly different meanings depending upon where you are attempting to drill down in context from. In short, the information displayed when drilling down in context is always related to your original selection’s settings.
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In short, the information displayed when drilling down in context is always related to your original selection’s selection's settings.
How a drilldown affects the workspace heading
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The user interface displays data per time slice in bar graphs. Bar graphs summarize one slice of data and generally compare several values of similar type, such as time or throughput. For example, contributors of a higher level metric are displayed as bars in the graph, with their type and percentage work time displayed by putting the mouse over the area of interest (see the “Workspace terminology” Workspace terminology figure). Each displayed metric value is an average of observations within the slice.
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Selecting a predefined time frame from the toolbar displays transaction performance data for the selected time period up to the current time. See “Selecting Selecting a predefined time frame from the Precise for J2EE toolbar” on page 14toolbar.
Selecting the time frame using the calendar icon, you can choose to define a time range independent of the current time, or to define a time range up to the current time. See “Selecting Selecting a time frame using the calendar icon” on page 15icon.
The predefined time frame options are:
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The time frame selected affects all information displayed in Precise for J2EE. Only data that falls within the selected time frame is shown in these areas.
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To select a predefined time frame, from the Precise for J2EE toolbar, select one of the predefined time frames.
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To select a time frame
- Click the calendar icon. In the dialog box that is displayed perform one of the following:
- To define a time frame independent from the current time, select the ‘Time Range’ option and Time Range, and the select the Start and End dates and times.
- To define a time frame up to the current time, select the ‘Last’ option Last, and then enter the desired time frame.
- To use one of the three previously used time frames, select the ‘Recently used’ option and Recently used, and then from the drop-down menu, select the desired time frame.
- To use a previously saved time frame, select Use a previously saved time frame, and then from the drop-down menu, select the desired time frame.
- To save your settings for future access, select Save these definitions for future use as: and enter a name in the corresponding field.
- Click OK.
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- Click the arrow located to the left of the Association controls and select More...
- In the Associate With dialog box, in the Entries tab, select the entity you want to associate data with from the Populate table with list.
- In the Sort entries by list, determine which criteria you want the information to be sorted by and in which order.
- From the Display top list, select the number of rows to display.
- On the Criteria tab, do the following for each entity you want to associate data with:
- From the left drop-down list, select an entity.
- From the middle drop-down list, select an operator, such as, Like, <>, Not Like, In, Not In.
- In the text box, type the criteria (case-sensitive for the selected entity.
If you select the operator Like or Not Like, you can use the % wildcard character to represent 0 or more characters, and the _ wildcard character to represent exactly one character. If you select the operator In or Not In, type a comma to separate values.
- Click OK.
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You can send an email message to one or more recipients from the Precise toolbar. The default subject for the message will be “Link message subject is, "Link to a Precise environment”environment." The email will include a link to the Precise product in the current context (time frame and selected entries).
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The Favorites function enables you to save a specific location in your environment and to retrieve the same location later without having to navigate to it. For this purpose, a friendly user interface similar to the familiar Favorites option in the Internet Explorer has been is implemented.
About the Favorites function
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- Relative Time Frame. Saving a relative time frame instead of static date. For example, saving the last 7 seven days will always display the last 7 seven days, depending on the day entered.
- One click to specific location. Once you open Precise by launching a saved Favorite item, you will not have to enter a login credential nor click the login button.
- IE Favorites support. Adding a new Favorite item in Precise will also add it to the IE Favorites menu.
- Auto Complete. The Favorites dialog includes a new combo box which supports AutoComplete.
- Auto Naming. The Favorites dialog generates item names based on the current location.
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- On the Add/Delete Favorites dialog box, select the Favorite location to be deleted.
- Click Delete. The dialog box closes and the selected Favorite is deleted from the list.
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- On the Precise bar, click Settings.
- Select the setting type (from the menu) you want to configure.
- On the appropriate settings dialog box, enter your configuration choices. See “Configuring Configuring Precise for J2EE settings” on page 41settings.
Launching Precise for J2EE from Precise StartPoint
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