Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
To use HSF to collect data about transactions, you need to set a number of configuration options in Enterprise Server Administration. You can also use ESMAC to override these settings dynamically.
Note: In order to collect information on EXEC SQL statements, you need to compile the application with the HSFTRACE directive set.
To configure HSF
- Access the Enterprise Server Administration screen for your installation.
- Check that the server you want has stopped, and if not, stop it.
- In the
Status column of the Enterprise Server to monitor, click
Details.
- Select the
Historical Statistics tab.
- Set the configuration options:
- Enable collection of Historical Statistics Facility (HSF) records
- This switches on HSF processing.
- Write to disk
- Enables writing of HSF records to comma-separated files. These are called
cashsf-a.csv and
cashsf-b.csv, and are written to the system directory. Only one file is written to at any one time - this is called the active file.
You write to the active file until you click the ESMAC
Switch button or when the active file reaches the maximum size, at which point the alternate file becomes active. If the alternate file already exists it will be backed up with the name
cashsf.nnn where
nnn is the number of the backup. When you start an enterprise server,
cashsf-a.csv is always set as the active file, and if it already exists it is backed up.
Backup extensions are numbered from .001 up to .999. When a backup with extension .999 exists then the next backup will be created as cashsf.001. If cashsf.001 already exists then it will be overwritten.
- Maximum HSF file size (KB)
- If you have selected
Write to disk, this is the size in kilobytes the
.csv file will reach before Enterprise Server switches to the alternate
.csv file. A value 0 selects the maximum size possible (4 Gb).
- Number of records displayed by ES Monitor & Control
- The number of HSF records that Enterprise Server will hold in memory. These records can be viewed by clicking on the
HSF button in ESMAC while the server is running. When this number is reached, older records will be deleted when a new one is created. Records older than one hour are deleted too.
- The minimum value is 0 (no HSF data displays in ESMAC), the maximum is 4096.
To reconfigure HSF while a server is running
- Access the Enterprise Server Administration screen for your installation.
- In the
Status column of the started Enterprise Server, click
Details.
- Select the
Server > Control tab and click
ES Monitor & Control, then click
Control.
- Set the configuration options. These are the same as those in the Enterprise Server Administration
Historical Statistics tab described above apart from the following differences:
- Enable collection of HSF records
- To enable this option you must first either set
Write to disk or enter a value in the
Number of records to view field.
- Switch
- Clicking this button will switch collection to the alternate
.csv file before the active file has reached the maximum size.
- Click
Apply to start collecting the data.
