Yesterday I installed Order of The Bee support tools module for
our Alfresco Community 5.1.e (201602GA), which is a very useful addon
that provides additional administration, monitoring and profiling
tools for Alfresco Community, similar to the Alfresco
Support Tools addon for Alfresco Enterprise. It provides a set
tools for monitoring active sessions such users connected to the
repository or database pool connections, and system perfomance (CPU,
JVM, number of threads). This is an essential monitoring information
when things are not working properly in your Alfresco instance. There
are other ways of monitoring
Alfresco via Nagios or Java Melody
plugins, probe
(lambda psi), but the most interesting information is JMX based,
which is an Enterprise feature. This addon fills this gap for Alfresco
Community. It also allows an easy inspection of Alfresco properties
(with searches), the access to Alfresco logs and the possibility of
setting log4j loggers without restarting Alfresco service (which is
also an essential part when debugging in Alfresco and also a JMX based
feature of Alfresco Enterprise). Finally. it also provides additional
tools for getting information about hot threads, thread dumps, caches,
applied patches, schedule jobs, and even a transformation test
suite.
Below you can find some screenshots of the addon:
The system performance page shows a live graph of the Memory and CPU
usage. It may help you to monitor, assign and tune the JVM Heap memory
properly, or to check a correct garbage collector behaviour. It helps
when having Java out of memory problems too.
The active sessions allows to monitor people connected (you can
even logoff them from the console), to check if the maximum pool for
database is reached, or if database connections are not being closed.
The system information allows searching between all the variables set
by default in Alfresco. This is very useful for checking Alfresco
configurations. Note: This UI with JMX edition capabilities would be a
great improvement of Alfresco Enterprise Administration Console or
Alfresco Enterprise Support Tools.
Finally, it is possible to tail Alfresco log files and to download
them for further inspection, in conjuction with the possibility of
changing log4j loggers configuration without restarting Alfresco service.
Besides, Alfresco Share Administration Console provides two new
features. First, a very useful dashlet administration for users,
sites, and also a dedicated log4j settings page, in this case both for
Alfresco repository and Alfresco Share.
Here you can find the project in github:
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