Monitoring Silk Central Performance

Use Performance Explorer to monitor performance and reliability metrics of a Silk Central application server and front-end server.

  1. On the Real-Time Monitoring tab, in the Monitor group, click System. The Data Source wizard opens.
  2. Click the Select from predefined Data Sources option button.
  3. Click Next. The System selection page opens.
  4. Expand the Silk folder and the Silk Central folder with the version that you want to monitor, then select application server or front-end server.
  5. Click Next.

    The Connection parameters page opens.

  6. Specify the following settings:
    • In the Hostname text box, specify the host name or IP address on which Silk Central is running.
    • Optional: In the Alias text box, specify an alias for the server which is monitored.
    • If Silk Central does not listen on the default port, specify the JMX port number in the Port text box.
    • If JMX authentication is enabled, enter the Username and Password. Per default JMX authentication is disabled and Username and Password should be empty.
    Note: Make sure that your local firewall is turned off or that ports 19140 and 19142 are allowed to communicate through the firewall.
  7. Click Next. The JMX Data Source Browser opens.
  8. Select the measures that you want to include in the initial monitor view and click Add. When you are done adding the measures, click Close.
    Tip: Select the Simple Query tab and filter the measures by borland.com to quickly access the relevant Silk Central measures.
    The Select displayed measures page opens.
  9. Check the check boxes for those measures that you want to include in the initial monitor view and then click Finish.
A connection to the specified host is established, and an initial view that contains the measures you selected is displayed.
Parent topic: Predefined Data Sources