Monitoring a running weblogic server

Question

I am aware of the facilities provided by the weblogic console for monitoring
a running server but we would like to develop our own Java app that could
report statistics, take snapshots, etc. and also alert us when something we
consider worrying occurs.
I presume the console uses an API to get its information - is this API
published?
Does this apply to 5.x as well as 6.x?
We would like to monitor the following, if there is an API we can use does
it give us all this information:
heap utilisation
bean pool size and utilisation
bean passivation count
connection pool size and utilisation
TIA
Ed

Answer 1

I believe there's a serverinfo.zip in the alpha code section on the dev center as
well. It does some admin work with the 5.1 apis. That being said, officially
I don't believe we ever exposed these APIs, so YMMV.
-- Rob
Tom Barnes wrote:
Ed,
For 6.x, there is useful JMX sample code at the "Developer Center":
http://developer.bea.com:80/index.jsp.
Don't know about 5.1, but there might be something for that as well.
Tom
Ed Barrett wrote:
Rob,
Many thanks for your timely response.
Is you did not expose the API I presume it must be there. So maybe you
can't answer this but can anyone else point me at the classes, etc. I should
look at in 5.x to get the same sort of information.
Rob - please don't take this as being untoward or cheeky - just if someone
else has gone to the problem of finding this out and willing to share the
information I would appreciate it.
Cheers
Ed
"Rob Woollen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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In 6.x, the API is JMX, and it is exposed. I don't believe we exposed theAPI
in 5.1 or earlier. (It wasn't JMX.)
-- Rob
Ed Barrett wrote:
I am aware of the facilities provided by the weblogic console for
monitoring
a running server but we would like to develop our own Java app thatcould
report statistics, take snapshots, etc. and also alert us when somethingwe
consider worrying occurs.
I presume the console uses an API to get its information - is this API
published?
Does this apply to 5.x as well as 6.x?
We would like to monitor the following, if there is an API we can usedoes
it give us all this information:
heap utilisation
bean pool size and utilisation
bean passivation count
connection pool size and utilisation
TIA
Ed