In WLS 9.0 BEA introduced a new WebLogic Diagnostic Service that integrates all diagnostics features and functionality into a centralized, unified framework that enables you to create, collect, analyze, and archive diagnostic data in a standard format.
Recently the WLS diagnostics team added a code sample on dev2dev, which is basically a Console extension that lets you view “critical” WebLogic Server diagnostic and monitoring information. From my initial experience it looks very promising and extremely useful.
This tool leverages two important features in WLS 9.0
1) Obviously, the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF). You can read more about it on e-docs
2) Console Extensions. The tool uses the new 9.0 Console extension framework to augment the existing WebLogic console. You can read about writing WebLogic 9.0 console extensions also on edocs.
To install this console extension, download the zip file and unzip it to a temporary directory. Copy the diagnostics-console-extension.jar to your (DOMAIN_DIR)/console-ext directory and re-start your server, thats it! Now login to your console and you should see a WLDF DashBoard tab, click that Tab. This console extension requires the Java Plugin version 1.5, if you dont have it you will be prompted to install it.
You do not need to configure any WLDF resources to start using the WLDF console extension. The tool comes with pre-canned views that will get you started.
I would recommend any one using WLS 9.0 to check out this utility.
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