Tools & Libraries

GemFire Enterprise 6.0 comes with the following tools

• GFMon: GFMon is a GUI tool that can be used to examine the state of a GemFire Distributed System in real time.
• DataBrowser: DataBrowser can be used to browse the data in a GFE CacheServer by running adhoc OQL queries and monitor real time changes to a data region by registering a Continuous Query
• VSD: VSD is a GUI tool that lets you analyze statistic archives after GemFire is no longer running

  These can be downloaded here.

• Configurator: Configurator provides a graphical user interface to build and configure GemFire distributed systems

  Windows	Linux
  Configurator-1.0-alpha-Windows_Installer.zip	Configurator-1.0-alpha-Linux_Installer.zip

GFMon (GemFire Monitor)

Version 2.0.1 provides a rich user interface that shows overall system health, including resource usage, state of cache servers, data regions, and the ability to create custom alerts and charts. This version works with GFE 5.7, 5.8 and 6.0.

Here are a few views from a running GFMon instance depicting various items that are being monitored.

DataBrowser

DataBrowser can be used to browse the data in a GFE CacheServer by running adhoc OQL queries and monitor real time changes to a data region by registering a Continuous Query.

Configurator

A typical GemFire installation has a distributed system that is comprised of peers and
cache servers, and clients that connect into the cache servers. Every process that uses
GemFire needs two configuration files viz. cache.xml and gemfire.properties. Process
specific properties are put into gemfire.properties and the cache.xml contains details
about the data configuration of the process as it relates to the distributed system.

Configurator provides a graphical user interface that allows the
user to configure the entire distributed system by defining logical data elements, physical
elements, mapping the data elements to the physical elements (clients, servers and peers)
and deploying the relevant configuration files into a directory tree. For version 1.0, users
can write their own post processing scripts that copy the files into the actual machine
locations where the processes are launched from.

VSD

This tool plots statistics values read in from statistics files created by GFE servers. You can also overlay multiple statistics in a single pane. It is particularly useful to examine the state of a system over the course of its lifetime during post mortem analysis.

These tools can be downloaded at http://www.gemstone.com/download/