Attaching to a server in profiling mode

After the server has succesfully started in profiling mode, the Attach wizard opens. It then allows you to attach to the server and to set the profiling options and filters.

Attaching to a server means that a monitor is created to contain the results observed by an associated agent.

To attach to the server started in profiling mode, follow these steps:

  1. If the server's process ID could not be determined automatically (only WAS 6 supports this), the Agents tab appears, displaying detached (and hence available) agents that are running and collecting data.
  2. Under the Profiling tab, there are 3 sub-tabs used to specify profiling options:
  3. Click Finish. The profiling begins:
  4. To analyze data from the profiling session, you can open other Profiling and Logging views. When you first open a view, it may be empty. To populate it, click Refresh Views A button with stylized icon.