Bill,
Let me see if I can state this clearly.
At present, to set the module level, one need to use --modules option.
If the --modules option is not specified, do you think that we should
set all module levels to "HIGH" ?
I can drop by your office in the morning tomorrow.
thanks
sreeni
Bill Shannon wrote:
>Sreenivas Munnangi wrote on 9/24/09 9:45 PM:
>
>
>>Bill Shannon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So if I do enable-monitoring without specifying any modules, what
>>>monitoring have I enabled? None?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>following happens
>>- btrace-agent is attached
>>- probe-providers are registered
>>- stat providers are registered depending on the existing module level
>>setting
>>- monitoring data is gathered by stats providers and ready for use by
>>clients CLI, GUI, REST,client-scripting, dTrace
>>
>>if monitoring is in disabled state, none of the above would have happened
>>
>>
>
>Do I have to do enable-monitoring before using the monitor command
>to view the statistics?
>
>I guess I'm just not getting it. If enable-monitoring doesn't set
>the monitoring level for any modules, what things are collecting
>data for use by the CLI, GUI, etc.? Is there some minimum set of
>monitoring data that's collected even if all the modules are set
>to OFF?
>
>I'm trying to look at this from the perspective of someone who just
>wants to see some monitoring data. Most of what you said above seems
>like implementation details that I shouldn't need to care about.
>btrace-agent? probe-provider? Why do I need to know about any of that?
>
>It seems like the use case you have in mind is that I run around and set
>the dials for all the modules that I want to monitor, and then once I've
>got them all set I do "enable-monitoring" to start them collecting data
>and "disable-monitoring" to turn off the data collection but retain the
>settings. Which would mean "enable-monitoring" without having set any
>of the monitoring levels for any modules isn't going to do anything
>useful.
>
>I guess I'm still confused...
>
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