You can enable Essbase to log, at a specified interval, the number of ports being used. By analyzing the information in the log, you can monitor port utilization and identify a need for more ports before users are unable to connect.
To enable Essbase Server to check port use statistics and write those statistics to the Essbase Server log, use the PORTUSAGELOGINTERVAL configuration setting:
PORTUSAGELOGINTERVAL n
where n represents the number of minutes between each check of the number of ports in use. The value of n can be any whole number from 1 to 60, with 5 being the recommended minimum and default value. Essbase ignores any portion of a nonwhole number. For example, Essbase evaluates 2.5 as 2 minutes. Statistics are written to the Essbase Server log immediately after each check. The log file will resemble the following output:
[Mon Apr 22 00:48:50 2003]Local/ESSBASE0///Info(1056214) [3] ports in use, [10] ports allowed