The SE Toolkit

The SE Toolkit is based on a C language interpreter that is extended to make all the Solaris measurement interfaces available in an easy form. The code that takes metrics and processes them is provided as C source code and runs on the interpreter so that it is easy to trace where data comes from and how it is processed. You can then write your own programs in any language to obtain the same data. The SE Toolkit has been jointly developed by Richard Pettit and Adrian Cockcroft as a “spare time” activity since 1993. Richard worked at Sun but is currently at Foglight Software, and Adrian is one of the authors of this book. The SE Toolkit can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/se3. Detailed information and examples of how to write code that reads the kernel and the SE Toolkit itself can be found in Sun Performance and Tuning, Java and the Internet, by Adrian Cockcroft and Richard Pettit, Sun Press 1998.