Technical Documentation

Modifying Profiler Settings

You can use the Profiler Settings dialog box to modify Profiler database settings and default settings for application volume tracking reports.

Figure 1 shows the New Preferences dialog box, where you can modify Profiler default settings.

Figure 1: New Preferences Dialog Box

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To modify Profiler database and application volume tracking settings:

  1. From the NSM main menu, select Tools > Preferences.
  2. Click Profiler Settings.
  3. Modify settings as described in Table 1.
  4. Click OK.

Table 1: Profiler Settings

Setting

Description

Profiler 

Purge profiler database if size exceeds

Default is 1000 MB.

Max profiler database size after purging

Default is 750 MB.

Profiler query timeout

Default is 120 seconds.

Hour of day to perform database optimization

Default is 00:00 GMT.

AVT View Settings 

Number of sessions to display per application

Determines the number of sessions displayed in the Application Profiler application volume tracking session tables.

Default is 10 sessions. You can specify from 5 to 10,000 sessions.

Hours of session data to display from present time

Determines the hours of application volume tracking data displayed in the Application Profiler tab session tables.

Default is 1 hour. You can specify from 1 to 24 hours.

This setting is also a data retention policy. By default, data older than 1 hour is deleted. If you change to 12 hours, data older than 12 hours is deleted.


Published: 2010-01-12