Bea Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

R Sean Lindsay

Richard P Mousseau

Rajendra Inamdar

Sandeep Shrivastava

Ryan LeCompte

Stephen Hess

Rahul Srivastava

Peter Bower

Franklin Fulton Simpson

Metadata can be used for determining or selecting debug points to activate for server software. The metadata can be used for selecting or logically grouping the debug point without requiring the selecting of debug points based upon package boundaries. The metadata can be used by the system to produce a select set of the debug activation information. This debug activation information can be used by a management unit to activate debug points in the server software.

Hierarchical debug

Upon an event, diagnostic information about the state of server software can be compiled. The diagnostic information can include information concerning the JDBC subsystem. A timer can be used to inhibit a compilation of a new diagnostic image if the old diagnostic image was recently compiled.

Timer-driven diagnostic image inhibition for statement cache/connection pool

Diagnostic Instrumentation system can use diagnostic monitors. The diagnostic monitors can be indicated using instrumentation at class loading time. The diagnostic monitors can have associated diagnostic functions which can be enabled or disenabled while the server software is running.

Diagnostic instrumentation

Diagnostic information can be stored and then collected into a large diagnostic image file upon an event, such as a prefailure condition. The diagnostic image can be compressed for emailing to a second site to allow the determination of problems with server software at the server software site.

Diagnostic image

In one embodiment, watch rules can be created for diagnosis information. The watch rules can be examined against the diagnosis information and if there is a match, a notification can be based upon a predetermined notification type.

Watches and notifications

A diagnostic context can be associated with a request and the diagnostic context can be used for determining whether to do diagnosis functions at predetermined points.

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R Sean Lindsay