IBM Performance Management for eServer iSeries

PM iSeries™ automates the collection, archival, and analysis of system performance data and returns reports to help you manage system resources and capacity. PM iSeries uses the performance data collected by Collection Services.

IBM^® Performance Management for eServer™ iSeries (PM iSeries) is automated and self-managing, which allows for easy use. PM iSeries automatically triggers Collection Services to gather the nonproprietary performance and capacity data from your server and then sends the data to IBM. All collection sites are network secure, and the time of the transfer is completely under your control. When you send your data to IBM, you eliminate the need to store all the trending data yourself. IBM stores the data for you and provides you with a series of reports and graphs that show your server's growth and performance. You can access your reports electronically using a traditional browser.

The PM reports provide the information that:

• Allow you to plan for and manage system resources.
• Help analyze key performance indicators.
• Help in determining when peak workload volumes are occurring and provide you with the data needed to adjust the job scheduling accordingly.
• Assist you with balancing the workload across logical partitions (LPARs).
• Can be tailored to allow you to do problem analysis on an individual day.

The IBM Operational Support Services for PM iSeries offering includes a set of reports, graphs, and profiles that help you maximize current application and hardware performance (by using performance trend analysis).

This offering, when used with Workload Estimator (WLE), allows you to better understand how your business trends relate to the timing of required hardware upgrades, such as central processing unit (CPU) or disk. WLE can size a systems consolidation or evaluate the upgrading of an LPARed system, by having PM iSeries send the historical data for multiple systems or LPARs to WLE

PM iSeries uses less than 1 percent of your CPU). It uses approximately 58 MB of disk space, which depends on your hardware model and the size of your collection intervals.

• PM iSeries concepts
  Learn about the functions and benefits PM iSeries can provide and about important implementation considerations.
• Configure PM iSeries
  To start using PM iSeries, you need to activate it, set up a transmission method that allows you to send data and receive reports, and, finally, customize data collection and storage.
• Manage PM iSeries
  Now that you have set up your network, you can perform a variety of tasks with PM iSeries.
• PM iSeries reports
  The iSeries server can be configured to send Collection Services data directly to IBM with PM iSeries. IBM then generates several reports that you can either view on the Web or have sent directly to you. Activating PM iSeries to automatically generate your reports not only saves you time and resources, but also allows you to plan ahead by forecasting your future growth needs.