A dump agent performs diagnostic tasks when triggered. Most dump agents save information on the state of the JVM for later analysis. The "tool" agent can be used to trigger interactive diagnostics.
The following table shows the dump agents:
Dump agent | Description |
console | Basic thread dump to stderr. |
system | Capture raw process image. See Using system dumps and the dump viewer. |
tool | Run command-line program. |
java | Write application summary. See Using Javadump. |
heap | Capture heap graph. See Using Heapdump. |
snap | Take a snap of the trace buffers. |