Performance Monitoring/Notification/Reporting

[Mike.Crump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Broad question but I was looking for some insight on what people were doing
for perf. monitoring and reporting (including ISV, PT/400, iSeries
Navigator monitors, etc.).  Today, I'm working mostly with PT/400 and
iSeries Navigator but I want to broaden my abilities.  I think I can do it
with these products but that some functions will require some effort.  Not
that I'm against it but I just don't have the time I used to have.....  :-)

My broad requirements are:

1.)  The usual metrics (cpu utilization, interactive utilization, database
utilization, interactive response time, transaction rate, disk arm
utilization, dasd iop utilization, dasd utilization, memory pool fault
rates, logical IO, physical IO, etc.)  Which does beg a question - with
WAS, Domino, HTTP, QP, ST, ODBC, etc. what are people's thoughts on
response time metrics?  We keep on adding more and more non-green screen
applications so my interactive response time is now only a portion of my
response time concerns.

2.)  Real time monitoring with real time viewing.  Close to real time, none
of this wait till tomorrow's reports.

3.)  Drill down capabilities from online monitors - ability to drill down
to a job.

4.)  Alert processing - ability to set thresholds and multiple alert
capabilities - message queue, pager, email, SameTime, etc.  Alert reporting
- summary of alerts for a given time frame.

5.)  Executive report capabilities through the web.

6.)  Very granular control over what get's monitored and reported on.

7.)  Ability to granularly control historical measures.  In essence, roll
real time data to a daily summary, to a monthly summary, to a yearly
summary, etc.  And save DASD storage while I'm at it.

8.)  Various publishing capabilities - prefer presenting data for the
browser but may need to also automatically publish to PDF or some other
type of output.

9.)  Plug-in's for Domino, WAS, etc.  I see a need to present system data
but may also need to start looking more closely at providing some ability
to monitor/report for application servers......



Michael Crump
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