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The Offline Tools item in the Common Tools navigation area gives access to various other applications associated with the Root Cause Analysis work center features. To access the available applications, click the corresponding pushbutton in the Common Tools navigation area.

Prerequisites

In some cases, local client software modules have to be installed to support the full functionality of the external servers.

You have clicked the Common Tools pushbutton in the navigation area of the Root Cause Analysis work center.

Features

The following Offline Tools and applications are available:

  • End-to-End Trace: The pushbutton launches the end-to-end trace analysis application as described in the End-to-End Analysis Overview.

    More information: Trace Analysis.

  • Introscope Workstation: The pushbutton launches the Introscope Starter panel, which shows all available Enterprise Manager repositories in a list, along with their related Online Status. Select one or more Enterprise Manager host(s) from the list, and click the Start Introscope pushbutton to launch the Introscope Workstation application.

    More information: Performance Metrics Monitoring with Introscope by Wily.

  • Introscope Webview: The pushbutton launches the Introscope Starter panel, which shows all available Enterprise Manager repositories in a list, along with their related Online Status. Select one or more Enterprise Manager host(s) from the list, and click the Start Introscope pushbutton to launch the Introscope Webview web application.

    More information: Performance Metrics Monitoring with Introscope by Wily.

  • Thread Memory Analysis: The pushbutton launches a tool that is used to monitor several selected JVM systems with common memory analysis functions, without the need for any manual file transfers. Since the tool is generic for all types of Java VMs, only common information is available. For in-depth memory analyses, the tools from the JVM providers are recommended, for example PMAT for IBM-based JVMs.

  • Thread Dump Analysis: The pushbutton launches an interface which allows central triggering and scheduling of JVM based thread dumps for a certain or all J2EE node(s), the generated thread dumps and the analysis of the thread dump data are displayed for further analysis.

    More information: Thread Dump Analysis.

  • Landscape Browser: The pushbutton launches a panel that initially displays a list of all configured technical systems. If nothing is visible on the list, click either the Search, Show All, or Refresh pushbutton once to display the filled list. Select a system and obtain its Technical Details, or run a short system Check.

  • Self-Check: The pushbutton launches a tool that is used to run a health check of different components for the applications in the Solution Manager diagnostics environment.

Activities

You can start different external applications and view their results. To start an application, click its name in the Offline Tools navigation area. To close the application, click the index of the application tab, and confirm the dialog box.