Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1.15
Troubles
hooting Tools
Platform
Tool and Notes
Windows/unix
• Wireshark
• Web site: http://wireshark.org
• network packet capture and tracing software that was formerly called Ethereal
Windows/unix
• netstat, Ping, and telnet
• tracert (Windows)/traceroute (unix)
• Basic utilities to troubleshoot networking and ports
Windows
• Fiddler
• Web site: http://www.fiddler2.com
• Web debugging proxy software. When installed, sits between your windows Web
browser and the Internet; useful for debugging sessions
Windows/unix
• Iozone
• Web site: http://www.iozone.org
• Disk benchmarking tool
Windows
• Atto's guI Disk benchmarking tool
• Web site: http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark
Windows
• Perfmon
• Windows internal performance monitor
Firefox Browser
• Firebug
• Web site: http://getfirebug.com
• Debug and monitor CSS, htmL, and JavaScript
Windows
• Process monitor and process explorer
• Web site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals Process monitor
monitors file system, registry, and process/thread activity in real time.
• The main reason I like Process Explorer is you can see the full path of the
command and, therefore, when looking at ESSSvr you know which process ID is
associated with a given application; of course, you may review the log files grab
the process ID out and review that column in task manager as well.
unix
• ps, iostat, vmstat, grep
Linux
• nmon
• Web site: http://nmon.sourceforge.net
• Console guI that allows you to monitor key performance information in one
location
Table 1.16
Tuning Guides
Document Title
Document Location
Authoring Company
Linux Performance and tuning guidelines
www.redbooks.ibm.com
IBm
Performance tuning guidelines for Windows
Server 2008 r2
msdn.microsoft.com
microsoft
AIx 5L Practical Performance tools and tuning
guide
www.redbooks.ibm.com
IBm
EPm - oBI Product Assurance Engineering Blog
blogs.oracle.com/pa
oracle
hP-ux Performance Cookbook
Perform a Web search
hewlett Packard
oracle Database Support for Server virtualization
oracle.com
oracle
ISv Licensing in virtualized Environments
vmware.com
vmware
