About the System Management application

Use the System Management application (SMA) to monitor and control caches, agents, requestors, listeners, and other processing in your PRPC system. Consult the System Management Application Reference Guide for more information on this utility.

Capabilities

Using the System Management application, you can:

• Review the memory used by the Java Virtual Machine on the server.
• Review the most recent ServletRequest and HTTPRequest details.
• Display the prconfig.xml file. R-11365
• Access any requestor and view the clipboard, start the Tracer, examine performance statistics, and terminate requestor processing. C-2655
• View executing threads and their characteristics.
• View, stop, cycle, or restart agents and listeners.
• View open JDBC database connections.
• View rule cache statistics, and empty the cache.
• Force extraction and recompilation of the functions in a library.
• Start or stop remote logging.
• Observe the utilization of requestor pools supporting stateless services.
• Review the status of the Java class loader.

Starting the System Management application

From the Designer Studio, select> System > Tools > System Management Application to start the application, or type the equivalent keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+M.BYRNB 2/23/10

From a browser session, enter the URL:

http://hostname:port/prsysmgmt

to start the application, where hostname is the node (in a multinode cluster) on which the application is installed.

Access

This utility operates on one node at a time, but can access any registered node. Many features can affect the performance and integrity of your system. Restrict access to the System Management application to those with UNIX administration experience.

For Tomcat-based systems, the web.xml and tomcat-users.xml files control access to such servlets. For WebSphere-based systems, the users.props and groups.props files define custom user registries. Q-2307

For certain download operations, application server authentication may be required as defined for the PegaDiagnosticUser role in the web.xml file. Consult the Installation Guide for further information and instructions. B-21204

Notes

• This application uses Java Management Extensions and an Mbean facility.
• The URL for this program is recorded in a dynamic system settings data instance, typically set during installation. See System category — Settings page and Atlas — Initial Dynamic System Setting data instances.

	agent, appender, Java Management Extensions, listener, prconfig.xml file, remote logging
	Performance tool — Using the summary display Debugging with the Tracer tool How to install and use remote logging

Tools — System