3.5 Using reports to analyze trends in the business system

You can analyze trends in the business system and help perform capacity planning for the business system by using the reports created in Performance Management.

This section provides an example of determining trends in a business system based on the Memory Available Trend (Multi-Agent) report that provides the amount of available physical memory in multiple systems.

Whether the value has been changing gradually over an extended period of time

This approach checks whether the field's value has been increasing or decreasing gradually over an extended period of time. For example, if values over the period of a week look stable, but values over the period of a month show a gradual decrease, some action, such as expansion of the memory, might be necessary in the near future.

Whether the value is stable and there is sufficient capacity

This approach checks whether the field's values are stable and there is sufficient capacity. For example, if the amount of available physical memory has been high for a month, use of that server might be reduced.

By checking reports with such approaches, you can obtain information needed for optimizing your IT resources. You can use the reports provided by Performance Management to perform capacity planning for your business system without resorting to planning based on guesswork.

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