Displaying the Collector Status (SAP Library

Displaying the Collector Status

Use

You can display the collector status using the operating system monitor.

Procedure

Choose CCMS ® Control/Monitoring ® Performance menu ® Operating system ® Local ® Activity ® OS Collector ® (equivalent to the command saposcol -s). Then choose Details on.

Result

The system displays the following information:

Status report ---------------------------------------------------------
Versions of collectors
running COLL 20.30 95/07/05 - @(#)hpuxcoll 20.19 HP 95/04
dialog COLL 20.30 95/07/05 - @(#)hpuxcoll 20.19 HP 95/04
Shared Memory attached
Number of records 1958
Active Flag active (01)
operating system HP-UX hp01 A.09.00 E
9000/817 1431332232
collector PID 29270 (00007256)
Collector running
starttime coll. Mon Aug 14 15:10:01 1998
current time Mon Aug 14 15:10:35 1998
Last write access Mon Aug 14 15:10:26 1998
Last read access Mon Aug 14 15:10:24 1998
collecting intervall 10 sec (next delay).
collecting intervall 14 sec (last).
status free
details coll.mode required
refresh required

Header extension structure

number of x-header records 1
number of communication records 40
number of free com. records 40
resulting offset to 1.data rec. 41
Trace level 2
Collector in IDLE - mode ? NO
become idle after 300 sec without read access.
length of idle interval 60 sec
length of norm.interval 10 sec
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The most important details displayed here are:

The time saposcol was started ( starttime coll. )

The collector’s PID, whether the collector is active ( Active Flag active(01) ) or whether the operating system has recognized that this collector is available ( Collector running )

When the collector last wrote data into the shared memory ( Last write access )

The current setting of the details flag ( details coll.mode required )

The length of the intervals

One of these versions is the collector that runs in the background, and the other is the collector that prepared the status (dialogs). If these vary from each other, then an old collector may be running.