Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management - Agent Option for Virtual Machine Description, User's Guide and Reference

1.2 Features of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine is a program that monitors the performance of a virtual environment, and collects and manages its performance data.

This subsection describes the features of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine.

Analysis of the operation status of a virtual environment
PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine collects and summarizes performance data, such as CPU usage and memory usage, from the monitored virtual environment, enabling the user to easily analyze the operation status of the virtual environment by graphically displaying its trends and history.
PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine creates an instance for each virtual machine in the virtual environment and monitors it. In this way, multiple virtual environments can be monitored.

Early detection of operational problems in a virtual environment and reporting of troubleshooting information
When a problem such as a resource shortage occurs in the monitored virtual environment, PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine can quickly alert the user via e-mail, thus ensuring early problem detection. Furthermore, by graphically displaying the information related to the problem, PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine provides the necessary troubleshooting data.

To use PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine, you need both PFM - Manager and PFM - Web Console.

Reference note

In addition to PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine, PFM - RM for Platform is a Performance Management product that can analyze the operation status of multiple hosts. Like PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine, PFM - RM for Platform need not be installed on the host to be monitored. However, the types of performance data that PFM - RM for Platform can collect differ from those that can be collected by PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine.

Performance data that can be collected by PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

Operation status of physical servers

Operation status of virtual machines

Performance data that can be collected by PFM - RM for Platform

Operation status of Windows

Operation status of UNIX

To collect and manage the operation status of an OS, consider installing PFM - RM for Platform.

The following subsections explain the tasks you can perform using PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine.

Organization of this section

1.2.1 Collecting performance data from a virtual environment

1.2.2 Collecting performance data according to its characteristics

1.2.3 Saving the performance data

1.2.4 Alerting the user about an operational problem in the virtual environment

1.2.5 Defining reports and alarms easily

1.2.6 Operations in a cluster system

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