Visual Statistics Display User's Guide

1.1 Statmonitor and VSD

• Statmonitor in the GemStone server

  • Statmonitor statistics data files

  • File Size

• GBS Stat Monitor in GBS

  • GBS statistics data files

1.2 Installing VSD

• Distribution

• Installation on all platforms

2.1 Starting VSD

2.2 Main VSD Window

• Loading data for viewing

  • Loading an existing statmonitor file

  • Updating the view if the data file is updated

  • Loading Multiple Files

  • Subsecond sample times

  • Monitoring statistics on a running GemStone server

• Process List

  • Sorting

  • Selecting Process

  • Searching for Processes

  • Selecting Sets of Processes

• Statistics List

  • Searching for Statistics

• Controlling visibility of statistics

  • Hiding statistics with only values of zero

  • Meaning of statistics

• Selecting and viewing statistics

2.3 VSD Statistics Chart

• Chart Window

• Chart Options

  • Zoom

  • Time Format

• Selecting a Line

• Copying value from a line

• Saving a graphic of the chart

• Changing Line Options

  • Filters

  • Scaling

  • Other Transformations

  • Summary of Information on a line

  • Summary of Information on a section of line

• Other ways to control the view

  • Combining statistics values for multiple processes

  • Graphing against scales on both right and left side Y-axis

  • Rolling Left Trim

• Process names in GemStone

• Changing Hours Offset

• Commas in Numbers

2.4 Using and Creating Templates

• Gem and Pageserver Names in Templates

2.5 Working with Multiple Files

• Loading multiple data files

  • Loading multiple Individual data sets

  • Loading multiple files as a single data set

• Current File and the file mode

• Chart with Statistics from Multiple Files

• Comparing statistics for multiple sequential runs

2.6 Monitoring

• Auto update

• See only the most recent statistics

• Auto Append of newly created files

• Font colors indicating live processes

2.7 Aliases for statistic names

• Global aliases

• Process-specific alias names

  • Managing aliases in VSD support files

• Alias templates for system operations statistics

  • Applying internal operation alias templates to application Gems

  • Removing Aliases

2.8 Setting Background Color

2.9 Menu Options

• Main Window Main Menu

• Main Window File Menu

• Main Window Chart Menu

• Main Window Template Menu

• Main Window Help Menu

• Process List Pane Pop-up Menu

• Chart Window Chart Menu

• Chart Window Line Menu

• Chart Window All Lines Menu

3.1 VSD Configuration Files

• $VSDHOME / %VSDHOME%

• .vsdconfig

• .vsdrc

• Configuration file format

  • Main Window options

• Chart Window Display Options

  • Monitor Window Options

  • Window locations and display

3.2 VSD Chart Templates

• VSD Templates File

• Template Syntax

3.3 Data in VSD TCL files

• Effect of statistic type on combined lines

Order of Loading Multiple Files