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Login into the Caboodle server
The Caboodle server is configured with user Ids and passwords
that map to remote JMX hosts that the user has the credentials to monitor.
User identities are created via the Caboodle server admin
application.
The Net Caboodle transaction and host servers act as facilitators
for the “Raven” the mobile client.
Caboodle servers are behind a firewall, but can connect
to the remote JMX servers
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Available connectors
Having be authenticated by the Caboodle transaction server,
the user is presented with a list of available connectors, which she has entitlement
to monitor.
There are two types of connector.
- Java 5.0 JMX, which are used by Raven to obtain
JVM statistics
- Custom JMX connectors which are used to monitor
custom JMX servers
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Raven menu options
The Raven™ main menu provides a list of options
for monitoring the selected JVM or JMX server connector.
If the selected connector is for a custom JMX server,
then only the Mbeans browser option will be available.
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Memory chart
The memory chart is an automatically refreshing view giving
the user a visual view of the current used memory.
When combined with the alerts features of Raven the memory
chart provides a simple way for developers and sys-admin staff to keep on top
of any pending problems with their systems.
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JVM information
The JVM information view provides a quick and easy snapshot
of the current state of the selected JVM, a refresh option is available to manually
refresh this view.
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JVM memory alerts
The memory alerts view allows you set memory threshold
alerts and optionally enable SMS message alerts.
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JVM memory summary
The memory summary view provides a snapshot view of the
selected JVMs memory usage and configuration, a refresh option is available
to manually refresh this view
Thread summary
The threads summary view provides a quick and easy view
of the current state of the selected JVM, a refresh option is available to manually
refresh the view.
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Thread details and stack traces
The threads details view provides a list of all the threads
running the selected JVM.
Each thread’s stack trace can then be examined by using
the “Details” option.
The threads stack view provides a snapshot of the currently
selected thread’s stack
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Threads chart
The threads chart is an automatically refreshing view
giving the user a visual view of the current number of used threads.
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JMX beans browser
The JMX beans browser is activated by selecting
the Mbeans main menu option and allows you to view information on JMX domains,
MBean types and invoke methods on individual MBeans.
By selecting a JMX domain the browser will show
you a list of available types in the selected domain
Please note that the free version of Raven does
not allow you to invoke methods on MBeans
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