Getting Started with TPTP's Statistical data collection
Author: Alex Nan (apnan@ca.ibm.com)
Last Updated: January 18, 2008

Getting Started with TPTP's Statistical data collection

The following document provides the necessary information for getting started with the Statistical data collection agents in TPTP.

Table of Contents:
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Installation
3.0 Documentation

1.0 Introduction

The Statistical data collection agents allow for collecting of performance data from Windows and Linux systems, JMX data from JBoss and JOnAS application servers, status data from Apache/IHS servers, and MySQL Database Table and Variable data. TPTP also provides a group of views in the Profiling and Logging perspective in order to view the large and varying statistical data that is collected using these agents.


2.0 Installation

  1. Install and configure the TPTP-4.4.0.3 Agent Controller.
  2. Remove the Statistical data collection client plugins:
    • org.eclipse.hyades.perfmon.agents_<version>
    • org.eclipse.hyades.perfmon_<version>
    • org.eclipse.hyades.statistical.ui_<version>
    from the plugins subdirectory of the <Eclipse installation directory>
  3. Extract the Statistical data collection client plugins from the archive to the <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins .
  4. Make sure you have the Log and Trace Analyzer runtime package installed, if not install it by extracting the content of the Log and Trace Analyzer runtime archive into <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins
  5. Start Eclipse with the -clean option.


3.0 Documentation