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Introduction
Introduced in AIX 6.1, ProbeVue is a dynamic tracing facility. Initially, it was designed to dynamically trace C applications and system calls in the system. Over time, it now provides support for probing Java™ applications and support for taking live dump and base system calls. This article covers Java support of ProbeVue.
ProbeVue has the following features:
Introduced in AIX 6.1, ProbeVue is a dynamic tracing facility. Initially, it was designed to dynamically trace C applications and system calls in the system. Over time, it now provides support for probing Java™ applications and support for taking live dump and base system calls. This article covers Java support of ProbeVue.
ProbeVue has the following features:
- Trace hooks do not have to be pre-compiled as part of your source code.
- ProbeVue works on 32/64-bit kernel and applications without any modification.
- Trace hooks do not exist, until they are placed via ProbeVue.
- Trace data captured as part of the tracing actions are available for viewing immediately and can be displayed as terminal output or saved to a file for later viewing.
- Trace hooks can be applied at the entry or exit of any function (currently exit probe point is supported for system calls only). more...
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