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1-2 PATROL for BEA WebLogic User Guide
PATROL for BEA WebLogic Features
PATROL for BEA WebLogic provides a complete monitoring and
management solution to ensure reliable, predictable performance of a
BEA WebLogic Server environment. This section provides an overview
of major product features.
PATROL for BEA WebLogic also provides several reporting mechanisms
for key parameters and allows you to perform a wide range of WebLogic
Server administrative functions from within the PATROL Console
environment.
Server Management
PATROL for BEA WebLogic includes several menu commands and
parameters for managing instances of BEA WebLogic Server. In a
WebLogic 6.x, 7.0, and 8.1 environments, commands are available to
manage both Administrative and Managed Servers.
Previous versions of PATROL for BEA WebLogic could manage an
Admin server and all of its managed servers, but it did not differentiate
which servers had local PATROL Agents running (although it was always
assumed that an Admin server had an Agent). In version 2.2.00, the local
managed server icon identifies those managed servers that are
co-resident with a PATROL Agent, enabling additional capability such as
J2EE instrumentation and profiling and the ability to directly monitor
local log files.
Administrative functions are provided within the PATROL environment.
You can shut down or reboot the server, lock out user sessions, perform
Java garbage collection, or briefly suspend alarms and event generation
during routine maintenance periods. You can also tune the PATROL
product for your monitoring environment by turning off selected
collectors.
