How to start the Performance Analysis GUI from command line (39349)

Is there a method to launch the Performance Analysis client from the command line and automatically connect to the instance?

If you run PARunner.exe from your PC, without any parameters (double click on it), you get all the parameters you can use, to start the GUI from the command line. Default location of PARunner.exe is:

"C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Performance Analysis\Common"

Example for a command line call which directly opens up a specific database instance:

C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Performance Analysis\Common\PARunner /module=PA /host=<hostname> /port=<port> /user=quest /pass=quest /db_service=<hostname-SID> /instance=<SID> /platform=oracle

For SQL Server default instances, use "/instance=DEFAULT_INSTANCE"

The "/extrainfo" argument is used internally by development for debugging purposes.

The "/context" argument can only be used to show the History page upon startup. Any string value can be used (e.g. /context=History or /context=any_string).  By not using the "/context" parameter in the command line will default the Performance Analysis GUI to the home page.