EJB Data for monitoring

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

So I'm thinking of adding some monitoring ability on the EJB side of  
things in the not too distant future and am wondering how things need  
to work on the Geronimo side of that picture.

How does monitoring work now in the console?  Specifically some  
details on how the data is getting to where it's going (mbeans?),  
where is it being aggregated and for how long, and what technique is  
used to graph/display it?

Also, who would want to work on the console part of the EJB data?

-David

Re: EJB Data for monitoring

["Erik B. Craig" <gi...@gmail.com>]

David,

Viet and myself have started some work related to monitoring in general
through the administrative console. The work that we have laid down is
currently only exploiting some Tomcat statistics, however EJB monitoring is
definitely something we want to get added down the road to it.

To get a feel for the approach and goals we have with this project, take a
look at the wiki article on it
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/monitoring-and-management-service.html

as well as the Jira with the necessary files
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3441

Keeping in mind this is still in its infancy...
Is this something along the lines of what you are thinking for the console
part of the EJB data, and if so, would you be interested in combining
efforts so that we aren't pulling in multiple directions with monitoring
things on the server?


On 9/7/07, David Blevins <da...@visi.com> wrote:
>
> So I'm thinking of adding some monitoring ability on the EJB side of
> things in the not too distant future and am wondering how things need
> to work on the Geronimo side of that picture.
>
> How does monitoring work now in the console?  Specifically some
> details on how the data is getting to where it's going (mbeans?),
> where is it being aggregated and for how long, and what technique is
> used to graph/display it?


Currently the only implemented monitoring in the console is through some
degree of real time data viewing, with maybe a min and a max value depending
on the stat, through the JMX viewer, beyond that there is no real historical
tracking of the data, which is part of what's covered in the plans I
mentioned above... as a result there is no current way of
graphing/displaying. In the current monitoring stuff, we are using Dojo
chart to generate graphs, so the graphics generation processing is done
client-side on the web browser, not on the server itself. And yes, you are
correct in part with getting the data where it's going, it is through mbeans
connected by JMX... but also the JSR77 spec is involved for what data is
pulled and such.

Also, who would want to work on the console part of the EJB data?
>
> -David
>
>


-- 
Erik B. Craig

Re: EJB Data for monitoring

[Anita Kulshreshtha <a_...@yahoo.com>]

--- David Blevins <da...@visi.com> wrote:

> So I'm thinking of adding some monitoring ability on the EJB side of 
> 
> things in the not too distant future 

Excellent!

and am wondering how things need
>  
> to work on the Geronimo side of that picture.

    Geronimo would need the following values (JSR77.6.11 through
JSR77.6.16 of http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=77)
    1. Number of times the beans create/remove method was called 
    2. Number of beans in the method-ready state
    3. For StatefulSessionBean - 1, 2, and 
          Number of beans that are in the passivated state
    4. For StatelessSessionBean - 1, and 2
    5. For EntityBean - 1, and 
          Number of bean instances in the ready state
          Number of bean instances in the pooled state

    6. For MessageDrivenBean - 1, and 
          Number of messages received
     Geronimo will make these counts available via "stats" attribute of
the GBeans representing each of the EJBs. Once this is done the stats
will be viewable on the console. More work needs to be done to have a
graphical view and logging of this data.

Thanks
Anita

> 
> How does monitoring work now in the console? 
 Specifically some  
> details on how the data is getting to where it's going (mbeans?),  
> where is it being aggregated and for how long, and what technique is 
> 
> used to graph/display it?  
> 
> Also, who would want to work on the console part of the EJB data?
> 
> -David
> 
> 
    



       
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