Express (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Troubleshoot and support > Analyzing application server Java system dumps with the IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Dump Analyzer > Dump Analyzer overview
Diagnosis steps
- Produce a dump from the Java VM. This happens...
- automatically in the case of some failures
- triggered programmatically
- triggered on user request by a signal
- Note the name of the dump file produced, for example file1
- On the machine where the dump was produced run...
This will produce a new file - file2.
- Optionally transmit file2, in binary mode, not ascii, to another machine for analysis.
- Start IBM Support Assistant on the analysis machine, and from the tools menu launch: DumpAnalyzer
- The file produced by jextract - file2.
- Enter further analysis options if required.
- Click "Analyze" to start the analysis of the dump.
- The result will be a summary of the analysis and ideally some localization of the problem and suggestions for further analysis or resolution.