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3 Click Trace On to turn DS Trace on and submit any changes.
4 Click Description: Trace button or Trace Live to view DS Trace in iMonitor.
8.4.8 Viewing Process Status Information
From the Agent Process Status page, you can view background process status errors and more
information about each error that occurred. You can filter the information on this page by selecting
from the options listed in the Assistant frame on the left side of the page.
1 In iMonitor, click Agent Process Status in the Assistant frame.
Background process statuses that are currently reported include
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Schema synchronization
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Obituary processing
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External reference/DRL
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Limber
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Repair
8.4.9 Viewing Agent Activity
From the Agent Activity page, you can determine traffic patterns and potential system bottlenecks.
You can use this page to view the verbs and requests that are currently being handled by eDirectory.
You can also see which of those requests are attempting to obtain DIB locks in order to write to the
database and how many of those requests are waiting to obtain a DIB lock.
If you are viewing a server running Novell eDirectory 8.6 or later, you will also see a list of
partitions and the servers that participate in the replica ring with the server specified in the Navigator
frame. With the introduction of Novell eDirectory 8.6, synchronization is no longer single threaded.
Any 8.6 server might outbound multiple partitions simultaneously to one or more replication
partners. For this reason, the synchronization activity page was created so you can more easily
monitor this parallel synchronization strategy.
1 In iMonitor, click Agent Activity in the Assistant frame.
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Choose from the following options:
Verb Activity and Statistics lets you view a running count of all verbs called and requests made
since eDirectory was last initialized. These pages also shows how many of those requests are
currently active and the minimum, maximum, and average times (shown in milliseconds) that it
takes to process those requests.
Synchronization Current and Schedule lists different times that inbound and outbound
synchronization occurred. If inbound or outbound synchronization is currently taking place,
you see an icon indicating that the process is active, when that cycle was started, and which
server it is occurring with.
If inbound and outbound synchronization is disabled, you see an icon indicating that fact and
when it is scheduled to be re-enabled. For outbound synchronization, the next scheduled time is
also shown.
Events lets you view a list of the currently active events, statistics for event handlers and a
summary of event statistics, and the current event rights functions that have been called.