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Monitor Key System Resources

Establish regular monitoring of key system resources, such as space, CPU, I/O, response time, and so on.

Business Value:

By monitoring critical resources, you can anticipate increased demands and avoid unanticipated interruptions in service by preemptively taking corrective action.

Additional Considerations:

You should monitor resources such as database space, index efficiency, response times, CPU, I/O, and buffer utilization. To monitor these resources, periodically capture relevant statistics and review them looking for trends and sudden changes.

• Detecting trends enables you to plan for upgrades or schedule maintenance at a time when it is least disruptive to your operations. For example, a database area that is approaching 70% full should be expanded before it causes degraded performance or becomes completely full and results in an interruption in service.
• Detecting sudden changes in resource utilization assists in problem diagnoses so that corrective action can be taken in a timely manner. For example, a sudden increase in response time might be due to hardware or software changes, the relocation of files or the implementation of a new application.

CA IDMS provides several monitoring facilities. The following table identifies facilities that can be used to monitor critical resources.

More Information:

For more information about monitoring your CA IDMS environment, see the CA IDMS Database Administration Guide – Volume 2 and the CA IDMS System Operations Guide. For more information about how to use the monitoring facilities, see the CA IDMS Utilities Guide, CA IDMS Reports, CA IDMS Performance Monitor Guide, and CA IDMS System Tasks and Operator Commands Guide.