Those tools will get you close enough for a scientific guess, but not hard
numbers since it only sees the IBM i transactions and not the balance of the
traffic.
The only way to get what you really want is at the Switch/router just before
it leaves the building. Hopefully those are new and sophisticated enough to
have bandwidth management on them. If not then the tool I like is called
PRTG from PAESSLER. The base product is free with a commercial offering.
It will tell you exactly what is needed, and then help you monitor it so
you'll know when the overage bills from your Colo will show up (and they
will.....)
Whatever bandwidth you think you need, buy double. Usage grows faster than
fertilized weeds. Budget for another bump in the next budget as well.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Measure data output Power7 to external systems
Check out these
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzajq/rzajqservi
cestcpip.htm
Rob Berendt
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From: Peter Heeren <pheeren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 11/10/2016 12:47 AM
Subject: Measure data output Power7 to external systems
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
We are planning to move our Power7 to an external data center.
The Power 7 hosts our ERP system InforLX.
We use a web browser tool as user interface for the ERP.
Next to that we run other applications, which use data from the ERP system
- Cognos reporting
- Excel downloads
- Interfacing with other third party packages
Moving the Power7 to an external location will require a data line with a
certain Bandwidth.
We would like to know exactly which data is retrieved by an external
system/application/job.
We can measure switch traffic, which will tell me what bandwidth is
needed. ,But, this doesn't tell me which job is requesting for the data.
So it's very hard to analyze and optimize those processes
Is there a method or tool to available to analyze Power7 job is
requesting/downloading data?
Kind regards,
Peter Heeren
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