Notices

Preface

Part 1: Overview

1. Overview of PFM - Agent for Platform

1.1 Features of PFM - Agent for Platform

1.1.1 Collect Windows performance data

1.1.2 Collect performance data according to its characteristics

1.1.3 Save performance data

1.1.4 Notify about problems in Windows operations

1.1.5 Easily define alarms and reports

1.2 Overview of collecting and managing performance data

1.3 Example of performance monitoring operation

1.3.1 Overview of performance monitoring

1.3.2 How to monitor performance

1.3.3 Definition examples

1.3.4 Operation on virtualized systems

Part 2: Setup and Operation

2. Installation and Setup

2.1 Installation and setup

2.1.1 Before installing and setting up PFM - Agent for Platform

2.1.2 Installation and setup workflow

2.1.3 Installation procedure

2.1.4 Setting up PFM - Agent for Platform

2.2 Uninstallation and unsetup

2.2.1 Before uninstalling PFM - Agent for Platform

2.2.2 Unsetup procedures

2.2.3 Uninstallation procedure

2.3 Changing the system configuration of PFM - Agent for Platform

2.4 Changing the operation of PFM - Agent for Platform

2.4.1 Changing the storage location of performance data

2.4.2 Updating the Store version to 2.0

2.5 Starting the command prompt

2.6 Backup and restoration

2.6.1 Backup

2.6.2 Restoration

2.7 Settings for browsing manuals in a Web browser

2.7.1 Settings procedures

2.7.2 Browsing procedures

3. User-Defined Record Collection

3.1 Overview of user-defined record collection

3.1.1 Information that can be defined as user-defined records

3.2 Setting up user-defined record collection

3.2.1 Starting and stopping the collection data addition utility

3.2.2 Settings for collecting performance console counter information

3.2.3 Settings for collecting event log information

3.2.4 Settings for collecting workgroup information

3.2.5 Settings for collecting application operation and non-operation information

3.2.6 Settings for collecting user-specific performance data

Part 3: Reference

4. Monitoring Templates

Overview of monitoring templates

Format of alarm explanations

List of alarms

Available Memory

CPU Usage

Disk Space

Processor Queue

SVR Processor Queue

Committed Mbytes

Pages/sec

Page Faults/sec

Logical Disk Free

Disk Busy %

Logical Disk Queue

Physical Disk Queue

Network Received

Process End

Process Alive

Service(Service Nm)

Service(Display Nm)

Event Log(all)

Event Log(System)

Format of report explanations

Organization of report folders

List of reports

Access Failure Status (real-time report on system access errors)

Access Failure Status (historical report on system access errors)

CPU Status (Multi-Agent)

CPU Trend

CPU Trend (Multi-Agent)

CPU Usage - Top 10 Processes

CPU Usage Summary

Disk Time - Top 10 Logical Drives

File System I/O Summary

Free Megabytes - Logical Drive Status

Free Space - Low 10 Logical Drives

Free Space - Top 10 Logical Drives

Logical Drive Detail

Memory Available Trend (Multi-Agent)

Memory Paging

Memory Paging Status (Multi-Agent)

OS Memory Usage Status (real-time report on memory usage)

OS Memory Usage Status (historical report on memory usage)

Page Faults - Top 10 Processes

Process Detail

Process Trend

Server Activity Detail

Server Activity Summary (Multi-Agent)

Server Activity Summary (real-time report on information on the communication status between networks)

Server Activity Summary (historical report on information on the communication status between networks)

Server Activity Summary Trend (Multi-Agent)

Server Sessions Trend (Multi-Agent)

System Memory Detail

System Overview (real-time report on the system overview)

System Overview (historical report on the system overview)

System Utilization Status

Workload Status

Workload Status (Multi-Agent)

5. Records

Data model

Format of record explanations

List of ODBC key fields

Summarization rules

List of data types

Field values

Fields that are added only when a record is recorded in the Store database

Fields that are output when data stored in the Store database is exported

Notes on records

List of records

Active Directory Overview (PI_AD)

Application Summary (PD_APP)

Browser Overview (PI_BRSR)

Device Detail (PD_DEV)

Event Log (PD_ELOG)

Generic Data Detail (PD_GEND)

Generic Data Interval (PI_GENI)

ICMP Overview (PI_ICMP)

ICMP Version 6 Overview (PI_ICM6)

IP Overview (PI_IP)

IP Version 6 Overview (PI_IP6)

Logical Disk Overview (PI_LOGD)

NBT Overview (PI_NBT)

Network Interface Overview (PI_NETI)

Page File Detail (PD_PAGF)

Physical Disk Overview (PI_PHYD)

Process Detail (PD)

Process Detail Interval (PD_PDI)

Process End Detail (PD_PEND)

Processor Overview (PI_PCSR)

Server Work Queues Overview (PI_SVRQ)

Service Process Detail (PD_SVC)

System Overview (PI)

TCP Overview (PI_TCP)

TCP Version 6 Overview (PI_TCP6)

UDP Overview (PI_UDP)

UDP Version 6 Overview (PI_UDP6)

User Data Detail (PD_UPD)

User Data Detail - Extended (PD_UPDB)

User Data Interval (PI_UPI)

User Data Interval - Extended (PI_UPIB)

WINS Server Overview (PI_WINS)

Workgroup Summary (PI_WGRP)

6. Messages

6.1 Message format

6.1.1 Format of output messages

6.1.2 Format of message explanations

6.2 Message output destinations

6.3 List of messages output to the Windows event log

6.4 Messages

Part 4: Troubleshooting

7. Error Handling Procedures

7.1 Error handling procedures

7.2 Troubleshooting

7.2.1 Setting up or starting a service

7.2.2 Executing commands

7.2.3 Report definitions

7.2.4 Alarm definitions

7.2.5 Collecting and managing performance data

7.2.6 Hang-up and abnormal termination

7.2.7 Other problems

7.3 Log information

7.3.1 Log types

7.3.2 Log files and folders

7.4 Data to be collected if a problem occurs

7.4.1 In Windows

7.5 Data collection procedure

7.5.1 In Windows

7.6 Detecting problems within Performance Management

7.7 Performance Management system error recovery

Appendixes

A. Estimating System Requirements

A.1 Estimating memory requirements

A.2 Estimating disk space requirements

B. List of Identifiers

C. List of Processes

D. List of Port Numbers

D.1 Port numbers of PFM - Agent for Platform

D.2 Firewall passage directions

E. Properties of PFM - Agent for Platform

E.1 Agent Store service properties

E.2 Agent Collector service properties

F. List of Files and Folders

G. Migration Procedure and Notes on Migration

H. Version Compatibility

I. Outputting Action Log Data

I.1 Types of events output to the action log

I.2 Format for saving the action log files

I.3 Format of output action log data

I.4 Settings for outputting action log data

J. Version Changes

J.1 Changes in 09-00

J.2 Changes in 08-11

J.3 Changes in version 08-00

J.4 Changes in version 07-00 (data model version 4.1)

J.5 Changes in version 07-00

K. Glossary

Index

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