2.4.4 Displaying drilldown reports

Performance Management enables you to associate one report with another report to display the latter as a drilldown report. You can use drilldown reports to check more detailed information (and other related information) to further investigate the cause of any problem occurring in the business system.

Prerequisites

You can display only those drilldown reports that have been associated with a report. For report templates, their associations have been pre-defined.

Procedure

1. Display a report.

2. Click the link for an item (field) in the report.

   The drilldown report associated with that item (field) is displayed.

   If Page Faults/sec is clicked in the System Overview report, the Page Faults - Top 10 Processes drilldown report is displayed. This drilldown report displays a bar graph of the 10 processes exhibiting the highest number of page faults.

3. Analyze the displayed report for troubleshooting.

Example of report analysis

If you want to find out from the Page Faults - Top 10 Processes report why the amount of unused physical memory has shrunk, look at the names of the processes that rank high. In the figure below, the abcprocess process has the highest number of page faults. From this, we can assume that the abcprocess process is responsible for the shortage of physical memory.

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