F. Glossary
- agent product
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A generic name for a program product that collects and manages performance data from programs, such as OSs and applications. The host on which an agent product is installed has the role of a monitoring agent.
- alarm
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Information that defines conditions and methods for sending notifications to the administrator when collected performance data reaches threshold values. Alarms can be set for each item that is monitored.
- alarm table
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A set of alarms. When an operation called binding is performed on a monitoring agent, the monitoring operation begins in accordance with the definitions in the alarm table.
- alarm template
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A template of alarms provided by Performance Management. Alarm templates can be used as is as alarm tables because required items are predefined. Alarm templates can also be customized as appropriate to the purpose of the monitoring operation.
- binding
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Process of associating a monitoring agent with an alarm table. The monitoring operation using alarms begins when an alarm table is associated with a monitoring agent.
- drilldown report
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A report that is associated with a specific field on a report. Drilldown reports are used to display detailed information or related information for a report.
- field
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A performance data item contained in a record. Fields correspond to monitored items in Performance Management. For example, CPU % and Page Faults/sec are fields of the System Overview (PI) record.
- health check
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A function for determining whether monitoring agent services and hosts are stopped.
- historical report
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A report that displays changes in the data for a monitoring target over a period of time. A historical report is created to analyze trends in a monitoring target.
- monitoring agent
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A generic name for a service that collects performance data from monitoring targets in a Performance Management system.
- monitoring console
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A console window used to display the performance data collected from monitoring targets by monitoring agents and to display the Performance Management configuration windows.
- monitoring console server
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A generic name for a service that enables a Web browser to be used in a Performance Management system to display the performance data collected from monitoring targets by monitoring agents and to display the Performance Management configuration windows.
- monitoring manager
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A generic name for a service that performs central management of monitoring agents in a Performance Management system.
- monitoring template
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An alarm table or a report that contains predefined monitored items and monitoring conditions that are used frequently. A monitoring template used by the alarm function is called an alarm template, and a monitoring template used by the report function is called a report template.
- operation monitoring
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Monitoring of the status of programs, such as OSs and applications, in a business system to detect warning signs of failures and to display data that is needed for analyzing the causes of problems.
- performance data
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Operational status data collected from monitoring targets, such as OSs and applications.
- Performance Management
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A general term for a group of JP1/Performance Management products. JP1/Performance Management includes PFM - Manager, PFM - Web Console, PFM - Agent Option for Platform, and PFM - Base.
- PFM - Agent Option for Platform
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An agent product that collects and manages performance data for purposes of monitoring the performance of an OS. These agent products include PFM - Agent Option for Platform (for Windows) and PFM - Agent Option for Platform (for UNIX).
- PFM - Base
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A product required for such agent products as PFM - Agent Option for Platform and PFM - Remote Monitor for Platform. This product is not needed if the agent product is located on the server on which PFM - Manager is running.
- PFM - Manager
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A program product that provides central management of monitoring agents. The host on which PFM - Manager is installed has the role of the monitoring manager.
- PFM - Web Console
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A program product for displaying in a Web browser the performance data collected from monitoring targets by monitoring agents and the Performance Management configuration windows. The host on which PFM - Web Console is installed has the role of the monitoring console server.
- real-time report
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A report providing current information about a monitoring target. A real-time report is created to check the current status of a monitored item for which a history of performance data is not being collected.
- record
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A collection of performance data items that is organized by purpose. For example, the System Overview (PI) record is a collection of such performance data items as the CPU usage and the amount of unused physical memory area. This data is used to determine the overall status of the system. Monitoring agents collect performance data in records. The records that can be collected depend on the agent product.
- remote monitoring
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An operation mode in which performance data is collected from a remote host without installing an agent product on the monitoring target server.
- report
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Performance data that is collected from monitoring targets and displayed in easy-to-understand graphs and tables. The two types of reports are real-time reports and historical reports.
- report template
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A template for reports that is provided by Performance Management. Report templates can be used as is for producing reports because required items are predefined. Report templates can also be customized for the purpose of the monitoring operation.