The WebSphere Application Server Performance Tuning Toolkit provides a three-pronged approach to performance monitoring and tuning: it monitors servers for errors and potential problems, accelerates performance tuning by centralizing monitoring and tuning scripts, and facilitates problem determination through features like thread dumps, heap dumps, and runtime tracing. The toolkit offers a friendly UI and requires no additional installation or configuration. It provides reports to analyze monitoring data both online and offline.

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Performance Tuning Toolkit
WAS ENT Persona Test
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Why we use this toolkit ? Objective Functions
Find error as soon as  Monitor the servlet errors,
Application Cluster #1 it occurs transaction rollback, transaction
timeout, JDBC connection timeout,
JCA connection errors, thread hung
and failed proxy request.
Application Cluster #2
Find potential  Show detailed status of system
HTTP Traffic problems with easily understood charts and
forms
Proxy Server Application Cluster #3
 Detect the abnormal symptoms
according to some user defined
rules
Accelerate  Tune all the servers in a
performance tuning centralized view.
process
 Run tuning scripts within the
workbench.
Facilitate problems  Generate thread dump and heap
determination dump
 Enable runtime trace
1) Friendly and easily understood UI  Extract connection pool contents
2) No additional effort to install or configure
Data processing  Provide good report.
and report  Support both online and
offline analysis
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Quick Start : Launch the Performance Tuning Toolkit
Unzip the zip file and launch the PerfTuningToolkit.exe. You will see the workbench!
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Quick Start : Connect to your WAS
From the Hosts View, double click the new created host , and click “Ok” in next prompt dialog.
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Quick Start : Start Monitoring
Double click the added host and click “OK” in next message box to start all the servers
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Quick Start : Monitor the dashboard
1. The dashboard will monitor all the key status of servers (include Application Servers and Proxy
Servers) in the latest monitoring interval (the monitor interval is multiple of the data collection
interval which was set in the preference panel)
2. The color of performance data will turn red if some abnormal events were detected in current
monitoring interval, it only represent the current status. There will also be a warning mark in the
second column as long as any error ever occurs and it will leave unless you clear it. So the
warning marks can represent history abnormal events.
1. Performance
2. Errors
3. System status
4. Customized alert (rule based)
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Quick Start : Monitor a server - 1
Double click any panel in the dashboard, you will go to the monitor page of that server
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Quick Start : Monitor a server - 2
Adjust the statistics interval: this function will be useful when the curve jitter violently
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Quick Start : Monitor a server - 3
Hidden the chart that is useless for you, this will not affect the data page
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Quick Start : View detailed data of each component
Switch to detail data page by clicking the point in the monitor page, or click that tabs at the bottom
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Quick Start : Interval concept of performance monitoring
Pay attention to the interval of Dashboard, Charts and the Data Collections.
Monitoring Interval: Monitoring Interval
1). Multiple of Data Collection Interval.
2). Can be adjusted at any time
3). Can only be up to the current time
Analysis Interval:
1). Multiple of Data Collection Interval.
2). Can be adjusted at any time
3). The end time may not be the current
time Analysis Interval
Data Collection Interval:
1). Can only be set in the preference
panel.
2). Can not be adjusted at run time.
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Quick Start : Tuning servers - 1
From the “Tuning parameters” view, you can retrieve parameters from the servers, modify
them, and update the servers
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Quick Start : Tuning servers - 2
For the parameters that not contains in the “Tuning Parameters” view, users can user scripts to change
them.
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Quick Start : Tuning servers - 3
Input the optional parameters if need. Click “Ok” to run the script.
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Quick Start : Edit the rules - 1
Data from all components will go through the rule engine. Some rules has been defined in the rule file
The existing rules:
•If the used heap reaches the 85% of maximum heap size, it will generate a runtime alert.
•If the used thread pool reaches 90% of the max pool size, it will generate a threadpool alert.
•If the average CPU usage reaches 90%, it will generate a runtime alert.
•If some servlet errors occur, it will generate a servlet alert.
•If some JDBC connection timeout occur, it will generate a connection alert
•If there are more then 1000 prepared statement discarded, it will generate a connection alert
•If there are some thread waiting for connection, it will generate a connection alert
•If some JCA connection error occur, it will generate a JCA alert
•If there is no room for new session, it will generate a session alert
•If some hung threads are declared, it will generate a threadpool alert
•If some transactions rolled back, it will generate a transaction alert
•If some transactions timeout, it will generate a transaction alert
•If some proxy request failed, it will generate a proxy alert
•If a servlet performance decline detect it will generate a servlet alter
•If a jdbc performance problem detect, it will generate a connection pool alert
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Quick Start : Edit the rules - 2
Users can modify these rules or create their own rules in the rule editor.
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Quick Start : Other operations - 1
Users can generate thread dump, heap dump, get connection contents and enable trace when
connected to the cell.
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Quick Start : Other operations - 2
GUI of connection content panel. More and more functions will be added to facilitate the performance
problem determination
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Quick Start : Generate report
Generate a report for a record
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Quick Start : Change the preference settings if need (Optional)
Click the “Preference” button to change the preferences if needed
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Summary
Functions Components
Performance Monitoring  Dashboard (key status of all servers)
 Monitor page (chart of components of one server)
 Data page (detailed page of components)
Performance Tuning  “Tuning Parameters” view (tune common server parameters)
 Scripts view (tune other parameters)
Health Check  Rule engine (process data)
 Rule editor (edit rules)
Operations  Dump agent (generate thread dump and heap dump)
 Trace agent (enable trace)
 Connection pool agent (extract the connection pool contents)
Generate Report  Report engine (generate, export and print report)
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Workshop: Connection Leak Detection
(Optional)
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Scenario description :
1. Use a modified Daytrader2.0
benchmark to simulate application with Test Client
a connection leak problem.
2. Use PTT detect the connection leak
problem
Proxy Server
Setup the Topology :
Dmgr
1. Application Server: WebSphere
Application Server version 7.0 or later.
2. Data Base: DB2 v9.7 or later.
3. Use the latest Jmeter to as the stress
Server1 Server3 Server5
client.
4. Download the Websphere Application Server2 Server4 Server6
Server Performance Tuning Toolkit.
Install the test application and start Application Server Cluster
stress :
1. A separate application installation
guide will be provided for reference Data Base
2. A Jmeter script file and Jmeter user
guide will be provided for reference
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Do a brief testing without triggering the connection leak problems and make sure no problems
are shown in the dashboard
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Trigger the connection leak in the “Server” tab of Daytrader application
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Some Jdbc problems will be detected on the dash board after triggering the connection leak
problem
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Go to monitor page to check the alerts
Go to detailed data page to check the alert contents
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Go to the jdbc connection pool detailed page to check the connection usage info
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Enable the “Connection Leak” trace to collect the connection allocation stack trace
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
After a period of time, Some connections will time out which will lead to both “connection timeout” and
“transaction rollback” errors.
Some jdbc operations are performed in MDB, that is why the servlet error is much less then the other 2.
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Check the connection pool content from the context menu of the “sick” server
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
Check the connection pool status, Pay attention to connection used time and connection used thread.
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Workshop : connection leak problem detection (Optional)
You can also get the allocation stack trace which will tell you where you allocate the leaked
connection. So it will be easy to fix the problems.
Note that: the allocation stack trace only be collected after you enable the connection leak trace as we
did in last step.
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