You can customize your DBA workspace with relevant graphs, alerts, and service information to better suit your role and site, add more monitoring capabilities, and simplify problem diagnosis and resolution. You can add dashboards for various tasks and select modules to access different functionality. Customization also improves productivity when navigating multiple systems.
The following list details key product touch-points with real-world examples that demonstrate why you would use each component. Workspace configuration can include setting up multiple dashboards and modules.
A dashboard is a customizable area that contains modules necessary for your tasks and projects. You can create multiple dashboards, and add and remove a dashboard as needed.
The Metrics panel provides a visual display of key system metrics. You can monitor metrics from buffer pools and system statistics accumulated from DB2 startup (Accum) or the difference between the current and previous time interval (Delta).
After configuration, you can review the scrolling data, increase the display size and display details about the metric so that it can be investigated further.
Use the Policy Status Light module to identify areas to monitor and thresholds that indicate an important change in your data. A policy is the rule to evaluate a data point in an object against a user-specified value. Policy defines the actions to be executed on the successful evaluation of the rule. You can select existing policies or create policies.
Add an Alerts module to your Alerts dashboard. Follow the wizard to configure this module to use your site’s alerts policy, and to label the module.
Use the Custom Investigation module to select a subset of data to view. Custom Investigation supports multiple module configurations on the same dashboard, enabling convenient comparison of objects. The module saves current status of the page with the most recent search and action. A new session restores the saved data for you to resume your task from the same point. Custom investigation saves you time and effort with every action you want to perform, such as search, configuration, filter, and chart.
The following DB2 for DBA categories are provided and can be selected for customization:
Displays a consolidated view of the active DB2 subsystems for all configured Xnets that are defined to the CA Chorus server.
Displays DB2 application workload characteristics and resource use.
Displays DB2 version specific DB2 catalog information to take an inventory of your catalog and to analyze object relationships quickly.
Lets you monitor performance by identifying the area to monitor and thresholds that indicate an important change in your data. A policy is the rule to evaluate a data point in an object against a user-specified value. Policy defines the actions to be executed on the successful evaluation of the rule.
Provides current and historical DB2 subsystem performance data. This functionality helps DBAs identify performance problems as they occur, fix critical issues before they impact service levels, and track performance trends for proactive performance management.
Displays a consolidated list of all active Xnet agents and their supported DB2 subsystems. This list includes Xnet agents from all configured Xnets identified in the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS configuration file (db2tools.cfg) joined with configuration file information.
Note: For conceptual and procedural information about adding or removing confederations, see the CA Chorus Installation Guide.
After an investigation, you can save the search query to a JCL batch job that generates a report when executed. You can run this report as often as needed and add it to a job scheduler so that it executes at predetermined intervals.
Configure the Knowledge Center to search only the data sources related to your discipline. Doing so improves the relevance of your search results.
Open the Knowledge Center and click Advanced Search. Under Show Results From, select User Documentation, CA Chorus, and CA Chorus for DB2 Database Management. We recommend that you add database-administration-specific documentation to your Knowledge Center. For example, you could add documentation that is associated with a specific release of IBM DB2. We recommend that you add the following content to your Knowledge Center:
We also recommend that you configure your search settings so that only CA back-end product content specific to your role appears in Knowledge Center results. Implementing this recommendation can improve the relevance of search results. For the configuration steps, see the CA Chorus Product Guide.
Now that you customized your dashboards, share them with your peers to help them start working quickly. Right-click the dashboard and follow the prompts.
Summary
This sample shows you one of the many ways you can customize your CA Chorus for DB2 Database Management discipline workspace. This customization can improve productivity and response time. Use this sample as a starting point to explore how you can customize the workspace for your user- and site-specific needs.
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