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Performance Management

for Power Systems:

Interactive Graphing Support for IBM i

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/support/perfmgmt/

Summary of Contents for PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR POWER SYSTEMS - INTERACTIVE GRAPHING SUPPORT FOR ...

Page 1: ...oration Performance Management Performance Management for Power Systems for Power Systems Interactive Graphing Support for IBM i Interactive Graphing Support for IBM i http www ibm com systems power s...

Page 2: ...is earned when the system is under hardware warranty or covered under an IBM Hardware Maintenance Agreement All entitled graphs are accessible by the end user customer via secure IBM Internet ID and...

Page 3: ...s the colors to indicate the current status of the resource and the projected status for the next 12 months Green bar resource utilization is within good performance guidelines Yellow bar resource uti...

Page 4: ...r Systems are packaged differently by country Contact your local IBM Representative or an IBM Business Partner for more information PM for Power Systems graphs are at the partition level not at the to...

Page 5: ...d on the Management Summary graph which is entitled with the no additional charge offering You are able to view monthly daily and hourly level reports At the hourly level you can customize a graph vie...

Page 6: ...whether a resource is within guideline marginal or critical in the following processor utilization reports These are the processor utilization guidelines They are based on the number of processors tha...

Page 7: ...ph are explained as follows The forward slash green shows system usage Jobtype S The cross hatch blue shows interactive usage Jobtype I The backward slash red shows the batch usage Jobtype B The black...

Page 8: ...30 day period expressed as a percentage of the total processor capability assigned to the partition It is likely that when this value is high degraded response times were experienced during that hour...

Page 9: ...sor utilization that is critical The black diamond shows the average of the two busiest hours per shift during the month Actually the black diamond shows the size of the workload on the partition in C...

Page 10: ...utilization for interactive jobs Job type I during the last thirteen months It also shows the corresponding CPW value used for the two busiest hours for the shift during the period The right hand thr...

Page 11: ...e The information under the Facts heading at the bottom of the graph outlines the recommended guidelines for marginal and critical percentage Percent of Time Faulting Per Hour The Percent of Time Faul...

Page 12: ...to reach this guideline with your percent usage Disk Arm Utilization by Hour The Disk Arm Utilization by Hour graph shows the average disk arm utilization by hour per the last month or the month you...

Page 13: ...n for the next three months based on the last 3 6 and 12 months growth history The trend months are the three last months shown Because each displayed value is an average the actual values during each...

Page 14: ...he Disk Space Usage in with Trend Projections graph shows the average disk space utilization for up to 13 months and a three month trend projection for space utilization based on the last 3 6 and 12 m...

Page 15: ...ilization The graph shows the average communication line utilization for the last three months for each communication line while it is varied on during the collection period Communication line errors...

Page 16: ...ne shows the average transaction volume for the hour that had the most transactions per day during the last three months Transaction Volume per Hour History and 3 Month Trend This graph shows the aver...

Page 17: ...e number of transactions for all users per hour You can chose up to 31 days worth of data to display on this graph Under the Facts section you see the average transaction characteristics for the curre...

Page 18: ...Average Number of I Os per Transaction This graph shows the average number of I Os per transaction for all users per hour Both the total number of I Os per transaction and the number of synchronous I...

Page 19: ...nd in total The Top Ten reports show the top ten print jobs with the most pages and the top ten users printing the most pages These reports all show the number of pages written to output queues This m...

Page 20: ...sured Day Number of Jobs per Measured Day This graph shows the number of active jobs per measured day during the period An interactive job starts when a user signs on to the system and ends when the u...

Page 21: ...oth asynchronous I O and synchronous I O An increase in the number of batch synchronous I O over a time period can indicate that More batch work is being done Work management settings of the partition...

Page 22: ...esponse Time per Measured Day This graph shows the internally measured IBM i response time in average for all the interactive jobs for each day for the last three months Average Response Time by the H...

Page 23: ...shows the average response time for all users connected via 5250 type devices or devices that emulate a 5250 for each day during the specified period Average Response Time by the Hour This graph show...

Page 24: ...Response Time per Measured Day This graph shows the average response time for all PC users connected via SNA for each day during the specified period Average Response Time by the Hour This graph shows...

Page 25: ...onse Time The Response Time chart shows the 10 users with the longest combined response times in seconds during the measured period Response Time Average The Response Time Average chart shows the 10 u...

Page 26: ...he most transactions per day during the measured period Transaction Analysis I O The Transaction Analysis Os by user chart shows the 10 users with the most I Os per transaction in the measured period...

Page 27: ...ws the 10 batch jobs with the most processor time per job during the measured period Batch Jobs I Os The Batch Jobs I Os chart shows the 10 batch jobs with the most I Os per second during the measured...

Page 28: ...ve jobs For best performance adjust these values based on a regular review of the actual jobs The values shown are Active jobs Additional number of active jobs Total jobs Additional number of total jo...

Page 29: ...29 29 IBM Global Technology Services 2010 IBM Corporation For More Information See the Graph Reference Document at http www ibm com systems power support perfmgmt...