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<h1 class="topictitle1">Select a performance management strategy</h1>
<div><p>Different business needs require different performance management
strategies. Here are three basic business models and their suggested performance
management strategies.</p>
<div class="section"><p>Developing a good performance management strategy will help you
manage your system's performance. Your performance management strategy depends
in a large part on the amount of time you can afford to spend managing performance.
If you are working with a small company, you may be managing many different
aspects of your business and cannot devote many hours to managing performance.
Many large companies employ performance specialists to keep their systems
tuned and running effectively.</p>
<p>For determining a basic performance management
strategy and for identifying which performance applications to use, classify
your company in one of three categories: small business, mid-sized business,
and large business. The business resources vary for each size, and your management
strategy will vary accordingly.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Small business</h4><p>A small business most likely has
fewer resources to devote to managing performance than a larger business.
For that reason, use as much automation as possible. You use PM <span class="keyword">iSeries™</span> to
have your performance data sent directly to IBM<sup>®</sup> where it will be compiled and generated
into reports for you. This not only saves you time, but IBM also makes
suggestions to you when your <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> server
needs an upgrade.</p>
<p>The following is a list of recommended performance
applications for a small business:</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="void" border="0" rules="none"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Collection Services</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Collect sample data at user-defined intervals for later analysis.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Graph History</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Display performance data collected with Collection Services.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">PM <span class="keyword">iSeries</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Automate the collection, archival, and analysis of system performance
data.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance Tools</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Gather, analyze, and maintain system performance information.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Monitors</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Observe graphical representations of <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> system
performance, and automate responses to predefined events or conditions.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Mid-sized business</h4><p>The mid-sized business probably
has more resources devoted to managing performance than the small business.
You may still want to automate as much as possible and can also benefit from
using PM <span class="keyword">iSeries</span>.</p>
<p>The
following is a list of recommended performance applications for a mid-sized
business:</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="void" border="0" rules="none"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Collection Services</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Collect sample data at user-defined intervals for later analysis.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Graph History</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Display performance data collected with Collection Services.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">PM <span class="keyword">iSeries</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Automate the collection, archival, and analysis of system performance
data.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance Tools</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Gather, analyze, and maintain system performance information.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Monitors</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Observe graphical representations of <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> system
performance, and automate responses to predefined events or conditions.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance explorer</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Collect detailed information about a specific application or system
resource.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Large business</h4><p>The large business has resources
devoted to managing performance.</p>
<p>The following is a list of recommended
performance applications for a large business:</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="void" border="0" rules="none"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Collection Services</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Collect sample data at user-defined intervals for later analysis.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Graph History</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Display performance data collected with Collection Services.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">PM <span class="keyword">iSeries</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Automate the collection, archival, and analysis of system performance
data.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance Tools</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Gather, analyze, and maintain system performance information.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Monitors</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Observe graphical representations of <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> system
performance, and automate responses to predefined events or conditions.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance explorer</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Collect detailed information about a specific application or system
resource.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">iDoctor for <span class="keyword">iSeries</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Analyze trace data to improve system and application performance.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Performance Trace Data Visualizer (PTDV)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top">View trace data from a Java™ application.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzahxplanparent.htm" title="Setting performance objectives for your iSeries server will allow you to have measurable performance benchmarks to compare your performance data. This topic will explain how to set those benchmarks and how to use them later.">Plan for performance</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzahxplancapacity.htm" title="As your business needs change, your system must also change. To prepare for any changes, you will want to model the current system and then see what would happen if the system, the configuration, or the workload were changed.">Determine when and how to expand your system</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxcollectdatacs.htm" title="Use Collection Services to collect performance data for later analysis by the Performance Tools for iSeries licensed program or other performance report applications, iSeries Navigator monitors, and the graph history function. (If you prefer viewing real-time performance data, system monitors provide an easy-to-use graphical interface for monitoring system performance.)">Collection Services</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxgrphparent.htm" title="Graph history provides a graphical display of performance data collected by Collection Services over a specified period of time.">Graph history</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxplangrow1pm1.htm" title="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</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxpexparent.htm" title="Collects more detailed information about a specific application, program or system resource, and provides detailed insight into a specific performance problem. This includes the capability both to perform several types and levels of traces and to run detailed reports.">Performance explorer</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxidoctor.htm" title="The iDoctor for iSeries plugin consists of a variety of software tools for managing performance, for example, PEX Analyzer for detailed trace data analysis and Job Watcher for trace-level information about a job's behavior.">iDoctor for iSeries</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxptdv.htm" title="Performance Trace Data Visualizer for iSeries (PTDV) is a Java application that can be used for performance analysis of applications running on iSeries.">Performance Trace Data Visualizer (PTDV)</a></div>
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<div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzahxperftoolsdesc.htm" title="The Performance Tools licensed program includes many features to help you gather, analyze, and maintain system performance information. This includes assistance in managing performance over a distributed network, collecting and reporting on both summary and trace data, and capacity planning.">Performance Tools</a></div>
<div><a href="rzahxmonparent.htm" title="Monitors display current information about the performance of your systems. Additionally, you can use them to carry out predefined actions when a specific event occurs. You can use the system, message, job, file, and B2B transaction monitors to display and monitor information about your systems. The system and job monitors use the performance data collected by Collection Services.">iSeries Navigator monitors</a></div>
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