Category Archives: James Gill

Snapshot Monitoring Tool Progress

Updates have been applied to snapper (data collector), snapsave (recorder) and snapmon (web based front end) to allow snapsave and snapmon to support multiple collectors.   New test data was generated, and it is now apparent that some summarisation of … Continue reading

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Progress on the snapshot monitoring tool

The front end has been modified to include updates to the report presentation: Colour coding of the grid report to show which columns are chartable. Charting support using Dojo.  The charts are presented in a “dialog box” (another Dojo widget). … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest

The snapshot monitoring tool now has a data recording component for DBM snapshots that records the event and all of the details into a DB2 UDB database.   Work has started on a web-based front end (Apache / PHP / … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest

The data capture aspects (“snapper”) of the snapshot monitoring tool are now complete. Thread scheduling has been verified, along with the timer thread operation and the communications thread.   A small command line utility has also been written to tell snapper to shutdown. … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool

The snapshot server / daemon is just about finished – I need to build in some way of driving the shutdown event (already built into all of the threads) and put some additional events in to make sure that all … Continue reading

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DB2 UDB Monitoring

I’ve started work on a UDB snapshot monitoring tool to gather and retain information from database servers. Only minimal thought has gone into reporting at the moment, but this will probably be web based.   The current proof of concept … Continue reading

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Tooling for the future?

Hey everyone. I’ve started to think about the various tools which I’ve put together in the last few years. This is stuff that I’ve written to make my life easier – well, nobody likes to work too hard, do they?! … Continue reading

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