You can obtain Remote Procedure Call (RPC) statistics that relate to activity between the database server node and client nodes (standard clients and application servers). The statistics record the number of different requests and request data sizes, which can provide an indication of the amount of network activity between the database server node and client nodes.
You can retrieve RPC statistics from the following levels.
Node, representing totals for requests from a specified node
Process, representing totals for requests from a specified process
System, representing totals for all requests from all nodes
As the statistics are maintained on the database server node, they record requests and replies sent between the database server node and client nodes. You can retrieve the statistics as combined totals for all request types or as individual totals for each request type.
The calling process is responsible for creating and deleting the
For details, see the following subsections.