1.1.2 Using Performance Management for operation monitoring and the performance data that can be collected

Performance Management is a series of products that centrally monitors the operating status of resources such as database servers and application servers.

Performance Management can acquire detailed information by placing the appropriate agents throughout the system according to the items being monitored, allowing for a highly detailed operation monitoring system.

Performance Management provides a variety of agent products corresponding to specific monitoring targets and products for analyzing the operating information. Performance Management can be deployed easily in an existing system by adding only the necessary monitoring agents that match the existing system environment. Also, in addition to monitoring resources in real time during system operation, Performance Management can gather and store performance data associated with system resources. Analysis of this stored data can serve as a useful tool for ascertaining the operating status of the system in its entirety or improving the performance of the system over the long term.

Figure 1‒4: Operation monitoring using Performance Management

As shown in the figure above, by using Performance Management, the system administrator can collect and centrally manage performance data even in distributed system environments that contain a wide variety of products, without needing to address the differences between platforms.

Table 1‒1: Examples of performance data that can be collected
Monitoring target		Collected performance data
OS	Windows	CPU usage, available memory, disk status, network status, and device information
OS	HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux	CPU usage, available memory, disk status, and amount of network data transferred
Database server	Oracle	Database usage, SQL information, and parameter information
Database server	SQL Server	CPU usage, database use, cache hit rate, and lock information
Job management	JP1/AJS	Number of jobs started, number of delayed jobs, number of held jobs, and length of time on hold
Service response management	Internet services	Response times for protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and TCP
ERP	SAP R/3	Roll area usage (SAP memory), response time, and system log/CCMS alerts
Virtual environment	VMware	The following performance data for the physical server and for each virtual machine: CPU usage Disk I/Os Disk usage Memory usage Amount of network data transferred
	Hyper-V	The following performance data for the physical server and for each virtual machine: CPU usage Disk I/Os Memory usage Amount of network data transferred The following performance data for the physical server Disk usage
	KVM	The following performance data for the physical server and for each virtual machine: CPU usage Disk I/Os Memory usage Amount of network data transferred The following performance data for a physical server Disk usage

For details about the performance data that can be collected, see the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM manuals.

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