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

The reports that can be used for capacity planning are stored in the Monthly Trend folder under System Reports. Select a report that matches your purpose based on the monitored items that you evaluated before you installed Performance Management.

Procedure

In the Main window, select the Reports tab.
Click the symbol for the Monthly Trend folder to expand the folder.

For the report template for PFM - Agent Option for Platform (for Windows), expand the Monthly Trend folder under System Reports - Windows - Operating System.
Check the displayed report templates and select the one that matches the item you want to monitor.

For example, if the item you want to monitor is the amount of unused physical memory area, select the Memory Available Trend (Multi-Agent) report template.
Click Show Report Properties.

The Show Report Properties window for the selected report template is displayed.
Check the definitions in the report template.

Check Field - Selected fields: to see the items (fields) that will be displayed in the report.

For example, the Available Mbytes field is defined in the Memory Available Trend (Multi-Agent) report template.

Tip

You can view an explanation of each field by clicking Description in the upper right area of the Properties window.
Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each item you want to monitor.

Note

If you determine from checking the definitions that the intended monitoring operation cannot be performed using the selected monitoring template, you will have to edit the monitoring template or create appropriate alarm tables and reports. For details, see the topics Setting up and operating alarms and Overview and procedure for report creation in the JP1/Performance Management User's Guide.