You can view system resource utilization data in iSeries™ Navigator. You can view the data, graph it, and summarize it into reports. Find information about how to access this function here.
Performance Tools can display performance data from the Display Performance Data graphical user interface (GUI), which is a plug-in for iSeries Navigator. From the GUI, you can view performance data, summarize the data into reports, display graphs to show trends, and analyze the details of your system performance.
Metrics
iSeries Navigator displays performance metrics over a selected interval of time. The performance metrics you can view in the Graphs pane of the Display Performance Data GUI include:
The Details pane allows you to view detailed performance data for the selected time interval in a variety of ways. To analyze your system performance, you can view job data, subsystem data, pool data, or disk unit data.
Reports
In addition to viewing graphs and detail data, you can also print reports from the Display Performance Data GUI. Performance reports allow you to research areas of the system that are causing performance problems. You can run different reports to see where your system resources are being used. Printing reports in Performance Tools is available only when option 1 (Manager feature) of Performance Tools for iSeries (5722-PT1) is installed on the central system.
The reports you can print from the Display Performance Data GUI include:
Accessing through iSeries Navigator
The Display Performance Data GUI is a plug-in for iSeries Navigator. If you have already installed the plug-in, it can be accessed from iSeries Navigator by following these steps:
For more information on how to use the Display Performance Data GUI in iSeries Navigator, see the iSeries Navigator online help.