Enterprise RTView® 
User Guide


Managing the Transaction Monitor Using JMX

The Transaction Monitor is instrumented with JMX to allow you to manage and monitor application settings. To enable JMX, you must run the Transaction Monitor using the -jmxport command line option:

        -jmxport:(port number)

The JMX Monitor demo, located in demos\jmxmonitor in your Enterprise RTView installation, shows how to use Enterprise RTView to monitor the Transaction Monitor using JMX.

The Transaction Monitor contains one MBean named RTViewTransactionMonitor:name=Manager with the following methods:
 
Method/Attribute  Type Description
NamesTable  TabularData For each interface in each transaction, the table contains the following columns:
 
Transaction Name - Name of the transaction.
Interface Name - Name of the interface.
Pause  boolean True if the Transaction Monitor is currently paused, false otherwise. NOTE: When the Transaction Monitor is paused incoming messages are still processed, but no metrics data is generated.

The RTViewTransactionMonitor:name=Manager MBean also supports the following commands:
 
Method/Attribute Description
resume Start generating metrics after pause.
pause Stop generating metrics. Incoming messages are still processed.
reset Reset all summary information and all active transactions.
 


 
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