Contents

• Notices

• Summary of amendments

• Preface

• 1. Configuring an Operation Monitoring System

  • 1.1 General procedure for configuring an operation monitoring system

  • 1.2 Preparations before installation

    • 1.2.1 Evaluating monitored items

    • 1.2.2 Verifying the prerequisite OS, and the required memory and disk space

    • 1.2.3 Verifying the language settings of the prerequisite OS

    • 1.2.4 Verifying the prerequisite network environment

    • 1.2.5 Verifying the Web browser and its settings required for the monitoring console

  • 1.3 Configuration of a monitoring manager (Windows)

    • 1.3.1 Newly installing PFM - Manager (Windows)

    • 1.3.2 Setting up PFM - Manager (Windows)

    • 1.3.3 Newly installing PFM - Web Console (Windows)

    • 1.3.4 Setting up PFM - Web Console (Windows)

    • 1.3.5 Starting the Performance Management services on the monitoring manager (Windows)

  • 1.4 Configuration of a monitoring manager (Linux)

    • 1.4.1 Newly installing PFM - Manager (Linux)

    • 1.4.2 Setting up PFM - Manager (Linux)

    • 1.4.3 Newly installing PFM - Web Console (Linux)

    • 1.4.4 Setting up PFM - Web Console (Linux)

    • 1.4.5 Starting the Performance Management services on the monitoring manager (Linux)

  • 1.5 Configuration of monitoring agents (Windows)

    • 1.5.1 Newly installing PFM - Base (Windows)

    • 1.5.2 Newly installing PFM - Agent Option for Platform (Windows)

    • 1.5.3 Setting up PFM - Base and PFM - Agent Option for Platform (Windows)

    • 1.5.4 Starting the Performance Management services at a monitoring agent (Windows)

    • 1.5.5 Verifying that the monitoring manager and the monitoring agents can communicate with each other (Windows)

    • 1.5.6 Displaying monitoring agents on the monitoring console (Windows)

  • 1.6 Configuration of monitoring agents (Linux)

    • 1.6.1 Newly installing PFM - Base (Linux)

    • 1.6.2 Newly installing PFM - Agent Option for Platform (Linux)

    • 1.6.3 Setting up PFM - Base and PFM - Agent Option for Platform (Linux)

    • 1.6.4 Starting the Performance Management services at the monitoring agent (Linux)

    • 1.6.5 Verifying that the monitoring manager and the monitoring agents can communicate with each other (Linux)

    • 1.6.6 Displaying monitoring agents on the monitoring console (Linux)

• 2. Monitoring the Business System and Responding to Problems

  • 2.1 Performance Management functions to be used (monitoring the business system and responding to problems)

    • 2.1.1 Management of performance data by Performance Management

    • 2.1.2 Alarm function

    • 2.1.3 Report function

    • 2.1.4 Monitoring templates

  • 2.2 General procedure for using Performance Management to monitor the business system and respond to problems

  • 2.3 Preparations for monitoring

    • 2.3.1 General procedure for selecting the monitoring templates to be used (monitoring the business system and responding to problems)

    • 2.3.2 Binding alarm tables to monitoring agents

    • 2.3.3 Checking whether the monitoring operation started successfully

  • 2.4 Checking the monitoring status and troubleshooting

    • 2.4.1 Checking the overall condition of the system

    • 2.4.2 Checking the status of alarms

    • 2.4.3 Displaying the reports associated with alarms

    • 2.4.4 Displaying drilldown reports

• 3. Capacity Planning for the Business System

  • 3.1 Performance Management functions to be used (capacity planning for the business system)

  • 3.2 General procedure for checking reports and performing capacity planning for the business system

  • 3.3 Selecting a monitoring template to be used (capacity planning for the business system)

  • 3.4 Displaying reports for capacity planning

  • 3.5 Using reports to analyze trends in the business system

  • 3.6 Printing the information displayed in the reports on the monitoring console

• Appendixes

  • A. Firewall passage directions

  • B. Windows Used for Monitoring the Business System and for Capacity Planning

    • B.1 Operations supported in the Agents window

    • B.2 Operations supported in the Alarms window

    • B.3 Operations supported in the Reports window

  • C. Advanced Use

  • D. Revision History

    • D.1 Changes in version 12-00

    • D.2 Changes in version 11-10

    • D.3 Changes in version 11-01

    • D.4 Changes in 11-00

  • E. Reference Material for this Manual

    • E.1 Related publications

    • E.2 Abbreviations for Microsoft product names

    • E.3 Conventions: Folders and directories for Performance Management

    • E.4 Conventions: Abbreviations for product names

    • E.5 Conventions: Acronyms

    • E.6 Conventions: Units (such as KB, MB, GB, and TB)

  • F. Glossary

• Index

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