Defining which statistics to collect
Edit configuration property settings to define the statistics that are collected by the server.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files, you must use the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for details.
About this task
The Activities server collects a specific set of statistics by default. You can change what is collected to better suit the needs of your environment. For example, Activities collects statistics on SMTP server performance. If you are not using an SMTP server, you can prevent its performance from being monitored. For a complete list of the statistics that are collected by Activities by default, see Activities statistics.
To define which statistics are collected by the server, complete the following steps:Procedure
- Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the Activities
configuration files.
- From the temporary directory to which you checked out the Activities configuration file, open the oa-config.xml file in a text editor, and look for the <stat> element block.
- Make any of the following edits:
- To stop collecting data on a specific field, remove the <field> element that represents the value that you are not interested in collecting.
- To change the name of the text file that is created to store the statistical data, edit the attribute of the <file> element.
- To change the number of versions of results that are maintained from the default value of the 144, edit the <samples> element.
- After making your edits, save and close the oa-config.xml file.
- After making changes, you must check the configuration files back in and you must do so during the same wsadmin session in which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Applying property changes for details.