Chapter 3 Operations of Performance Monitoring Function
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The performance monitor screen, as shown in Figure 3-1, is composed of areas (i) thorough (v). The following
describes the areas.
(i) Menu
bar
The menu bar is used for selecting necessary items from the menu for various operations. For details, refer to
Help.
(ii) Tool
bar
Among the menu items, the following functions that are frequently used can be activated by a single click of a
button. Refer to Help for details of the buttons.
[File]
→
[Save of Setting], [Performance Analysis Supporting Tool]
[View]
→
[Numeric Table], [Time-series Graph], [Bar Graph], [Threshold], [Show Threshold in graph],
[Release Threshold in graph], [I/O Density], [Transfer Rate], [Average Transfer Length], [Average Response
Time], [Read Hit Ratio], [Write Hit Ratio], [Busy Ratio]
[Setting]
→
[Monitoring Object Logical Disk], [Monitoring Object Physical Disk], [Set Graph Scale]
[Threshold Monitoring]
→
[Set Threshold], [Show All Items Specified Threshold]
[Operation]
→
[Start/Stop Accumulation of Statistic Information], [Download Statistic Information files]
(iii) Information display area
A numeric table and graph indicating load states are displayed (Note 1).
(iv) Status
bar
The status bar at the bottom displays the current status of performance monitoring function. The following
describes details of the displayed items.
(a) Display Refresh Interval
A time interval for updating the Performance screen is indicated by the number of seconds. Any one of 10,
12, 15, 20, 30, and 60 is displayed. For specifying a refreshing interval, refer to 2.1.3 “Environment
Setting”.
Example 10: Update every 10 seconds (specify 6 as number of updates per minute)
(b) Operating state
Information acquiring:
Indicates that the initial information necessary for displaying the load status on the Performance
Monitoring screen is being collected from the iSM server.
Working:
Indicates that various processing on the Performance Monitoring screen is being performed.
Stop:
Indicates that various processing on the Performance Monitoring screen has been terminated due to
disconnection of the iSM client from the iSM server or cancellation instruction in the Information
acquiring dialog screen. If the system is connection to the iSM server, you can select and execute
[Refresh] from the menu function to restart various processing on the Performance screen.
(v)
Statistic information storing state
It indicates whether or not the iSM is storing statistic information into a statistic information history file.
Statistic Information starting:
Indicates that the iSM is storing statistic information into a statistic information history file.
Statistic Information stopped:
Indicates that the iSM is not storing statistic information.
Checking:
