Getting more diagnostic info out of MapViewer

There are a few undocumented tricks that you can use to get more diagnostic info out of MapViewer.

In-memory geometry cache status

One area is about the health or general status of the internal geometry cache. As you probably know MapViewer usually caches geometry data of pre-defined themes as they go through the rendering pipeline. The status (such as total bytes of data being cached) of this in-memory only geometry data cache can be obtained by adding a "report_stats" attribute to the <spatial_data_cache> tag of the mapViewerConfig.xml file:


<spatial_data_cache max_cache_size="64"
report_stats="true"
/>


After restarting mapViewer, you will see periodic dumps of the in-memory geometry cache status in the MapViewer log file.

Connection pool status

As you know mapViewer uses a JDBC connection pool for each data source. You can obtain information about these connection pools such as number of active connections. To do so, simply add an element to the <logging> tag in mapViewerConfig.xml:

<logging log_level="finest" log_thread_name="false"
log_time="true">
<log_output name="System.err" />

<!-- a file-based log stream. -->
<log_output name="../log/mapviewer.log" />
<!-- dump datasource info every two minutes -->
<monitor_data_sources value="true" interval="120" />
</logging>


After restarting Mapviewer, you will see a dump of the connection pool info for each data source every two minutes (120 seconds) in the log file.

Usage of mappers and connections

[Note: this trick only works with the 10g Patch 5 release of MapViewer]

Sometimes you want to know if you have configured enough number of mappers for a particular data source, and/or if you have enough connections to serve your map requests. There is a simple XML request that you can send to a running MapViewer to find out. You can send this request from a custom application of yours via standard HTTP Post, or simply use the built-in request forms that comes with your Mapviewer installation.

To do so, point your browser to the MapViewer home page. Then click the Requests tab. In the big text area, clear out everything and paste the following xml request:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<non_map_request>
<get_stats/>
</non_map_request>

then click Submit. This will send MapViewer your request. The server will respond with a breakdown of the free/in-use mappers and connections for each defined data source, at the exact moment your request is receved!