Logging performance data

You can configure the probe to write performance data to the log file. You can use this data to help fine tune the probe.

Use the LogStatisticsInterval property to define how often the probe writes messages that contain performance data to the log file. When the property has a value of 0 (the default value), the probe does not log performance data. Any positive value defines the interval in seconds that occurs between each set of messages containing performance data.

The statistics that the probe records in the log file include the following:

  • The size of the trap queue
  • The size of the inform queue
  • The number of traps read
  • The number of traps processed

You can obtain additional performance data by setting the MessageLevel property to Debug. However, revert to the original setting of this property as soon as the additional data is no longer needed since using the Debug setting greatly increases the size of the log files.