Figure 1-1shows the relationships between Adaptive Server and the various components of Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor.
Figure 1-1: Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor architecture
Adaptive Server saves performance data in a shared memory area that Monitor Server reads. Because of this shared memory technique, Monitor Server must be installed and running on the same machine as the Adaptive Server installation being monitored. A one-to-one relationship exists between Adaptive Server and Monitor Server. For more information about Monitor Server, see the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor Server User’s Guide.
Monitor Client Library applications obtain Adaptive Server performance statistics from Monitor Server. These applications are clients of Monitor Server. For performance reasons, Sybase recommends running Monitor Client Library applications on machines other than the ones where Adaptive Server/Monitor Server pairs are running.
Monitor Viewer in Sybase Central includes a set of monitors showing different aspects of Adaptive Server resource usage at various levels of detail. Each open monitor is a separate application, with a unique client connection to Monitor Server. In Sybase Central, each Adaptive Server installation has its own Monitors folder containing the set of monitor objects.
Historical Server collects performance information from Monitor Server and saves the information in files for deferred analysis. Historical Server interfaces let users specify the data to collect and the time period desired. They also include a historical data playback feature. The interfaces are:
A command interface in isql. For more information, see the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor Historical Server User’s Guide.
A programming interface using Monitor Client Library. For more information, see Chapter 3, “Monitor Client Library Functions” and the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor Historical Server User’s Guide.
