Technical Specifications

Out-of-the-box Windows graphs include:

• CPU usage
• Top CPU consuming processes
• Top Memory consuming processes
• Disk Occupation
• Logical Disk usage
• Physical Disk usage
• Network Traffic

Out-of-the-box iSeries graphs include:

• CPU % per type of job
• CPU % per job
• Disk usage
• Response time
• Interactions
• Pool memory
• Page faults
• Response time per Pool
• CPU usage per Pool
• Memory per Job in the Pool
• Memory/Activity Level in each Pool
• Top 5 - Memory per Pool
• Top 5 - Page Faults per Pool
• Top 5 - Average Response Time per Pool
• Top 5 - Jobs from Active to Ineligible
• Top 5 - Jobs from Wait to Ineligible
• Top 5 - Jobs to Ineligible
• Downstream Traffic
• Upstream Traffic
• Total Traffic
• Number of Connections
• Number of New Connections
• Downstream Speed
• Upstream Speed
• Bandwidth Consumption

All graphics can be tiled according to your needs, with advanced configuration including coloring, 3-D rotation, text labels, export options and more.

With VISUAL Control Performance Planner add-on:

• Generate over 100 easy-to-understand graphs of systems performance using key performance metrics:
  • CPU
  • I/O
  • Disk
  • Memory
  • Response Times
  • Subsystems
  • Transaction
  • Jobs
  • Processes
  • Pages Spooled
• Track and trend workloads, users, jobs, processes, devices…
• Test possible LPAR, DASD, Server Consolidation and upgrade configurations
• Upgrade with confidence and simple justification graphs

Alarm options include:

• Complex alarm filters, including calendar conditions and logical operations
• Email alerts - including description and diagnosis
• Pop-up window alerts
• SMS mobile phone messaging
• iSeries command actions - configure automated responses
• Instantly retrieve iSeries spool file outputs from commands for diagnosis, e.g. WRKACTJOB, WRKSYSSTS, DSPJOB. Can be attached to email alerts
• SOS action - immediately frees system resources in case of emergency
• SNMP trap - integrate with other system management frameworks
• DLL action - integrate with other applications, databases
• Capture system snapshot