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Working with Performance Trend

Use the Performance Trend application to observe patterns of activity and resource consumption, identify short-term and long-term usage trends, and analyze the impact of moving workload and traffic across different servers and devices.

Performance Trend uses spreadsheets for flexible reporting of preconfigured or ad hoc requests. Reports can be processed on-demand or in batch during off-peak periods, and you can save them as an .XLS file or publish them as HTML or through e-mail or hardcopy.

You can publish Performance Trend reports to the Unicenter Management Portal or Web Reporting Server for access anywhere.

Like Performance Scope, Performance Trend provides a correlation analysis tool that simplifies the process of determining problem causes. Its correlation capabilities sift through large amounts of performance data from disparate sources to uncover hidden relationships within the data. Color-coded reports clearly depict these relationships.

Performance Trend also includes prepackaged, customizable macros that extend its data analysis capabilities. One such macro determines the minimum, maximum, and average data values for performance baseline analysis. Another is used to continue the data curve to indicate when, in the future, the current performance trend may reach a critical threshold.