Patent ID: 7954011

Claim:
A method comprising: generating by a system administration unit a message to request enabling a performance trace of a computer application, the computer application running on a plurality of server nodes of a cluster of servers; selecting by a dispatcher a single server node of the plurality of server nodes for receipt of the message to enable the performance trace and transmitting the message only to the selected server node, wherein the selected server node may be any of the plurality of server nodes; receiving the message at a managed bean on the selected server node; enabling a performance trace of the computer application on the selected server node in response to receipt of the message; forwarding the message from the managed bean of the selected server node to a managed bean of each other server node of the plurality of server nodes to enable the performance trace on each server node of the plurality of server nodes; enabling the performance trace of the computer application on each of the other server nodes in response to the forwarded message from the selected server node; performing the performance trace of the computer program on each of the server nodes of the plurality of server nodes; and storing a set of trace data obtained from the performance trace.