Edit configuration property settings to define the statistics
that are collected by the server.
About this task
The Activities server collects a specific set of statistics
by default. You can change what is collected to better suit the needs
of your environment. For example, Activities collects statistics on
SMTP server performance. If you are not using an SMTP server, you
can prevent its performance from being monitored. For a complete list
of the statistics that are collected by Activities by default, see Activities
statistics.
To define which statistics are collected by
the server, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the Activities
configuration files.
- Use
the following command to access the Activities configuration file:
execfile("activitiesAdmin.py")
If
prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first
node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command
writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path,
you must pick the node where the file is stored.
- Check out the Activities configuration
files using the following command:
ActivitiesConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory","cell_name")
where:
- working_directory is the temporary working directory to which the
configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use
forward slashes to separate directories in the file path, even if you are using the Microsoft™
Windows™ operating system.
Note: AIX®, and Linux™: The directory must grant write permissions or the command
will not run successfully.
- cell_name is the name of the WebSphere® Application Server cell hosting
the IBM® Connections application.
This argument is case-sensitive, so type it with care. If you do not
know the cell name, you can determine it by typing the following command
in the wsadmin command processor:
print AdminControl.getCell()
For example:
- AIX and Linux:
ActivitiesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/act/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Microsoft Windows:
ActivitiesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/act/temp","foo01Cell01")
- From the temporary directory to which you checked out the
Activities configuration file, open the oa-config.xml file
in a text editor, and look for the <stat> element block.
- Make any of the following edits:
- To stop collecting data on a specific field, remove the <field>
element that represents the value that you are not interested in collecting.
- To change the name of the text file that is created to store the
statistical data, edit the attribute of the <file> element.
- To change the number of versions of results that are maintained
from the default value of the 144, edit the <samples> element.
- After making your edits, save and close the oa-config.xml file.
- After making changes, you must check the configuration
files back in and you must do so during the same wsadmin session in
which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Applying
property changes for details.