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3.3 VM Management Objective Reports

This section identifies and describes the Management
Objective Reports that are provided for the VMC and VMX
Information Areas.  The reports are produced on a daily,
weekly, and monthly basis and they are described in that
order within this section.

User-defined options are provided to allow you to specify
data selection (time, zones, etc.), define the applicable
objective values, and specify the scales of the graphic
report representations.  Each of the options is described
along with the report to which it pertains and is fully
explained in Section 3.3.4, VM Management Objective Report
Options.

Options available for producing the VM Management Objective
Reports are shown below:

     Hourly Selection Range for Daily Reports:  The start and
     end hours of the day that are to be included in the
     Daily VM Reports.  We recommend that the hours be set to
     include the entire day (i.e., 00 23).

     Hourly Selection Range for Weekly Reports:  The start
     and end hours of the day that are to be included in the
     Weekly VM Reports.  We recommend that the hours be set
     to include only the prime-time hours (e.g., 08 16).

     Total Response Objective:  The average VM Q1 service
     time for all Q1 responses in the reporting period

     Hourly VM Availability:  The target number of uptime
     minutes per hour, generally set to 60, measured during
     the interval spanned by the data

     Zone Selection for Monthly Reporting:  The zone or range
     of zones to be included in the Monthly VM Reports.
     Normally, all zones should be reported; therefore, the
     range should be 1 to 9.  The VMC reports could be
     limited to only the range of zones required.

     Monthly System Availability:  The percentage of actual
     time during each zone in the month that the VM monitor
     shows VM is actually available

     Monthly VM CPU Time Consumption Limit:  The target and
     maximum average CPU time used by each processor engine
     per wall clock hour (by zone) during the month.  For
     example, the target of 2700 CPU seconds per hour would
     be specified as 2700 and 3600.

     Monthly VM Throughput Rate:  The target and maximum
     number of Q1 drops processed per zone within month by
     VM.  The target amount is used for a reference line on
     the graph and the maximum is used to set the maximum
     value on the graph's vertical axis.

The VM Report Options, which are defined as SAS MACRO
variables, are contained in the source member #VMCMOBJ in the
MICS.SOURCE library. The SAS source code for the VM
Management Objective Reports is contained in the following
three members in sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE:

    DYVMCMBO - Daily VM Management Objective Reports
    WKVMCMBO - Weekly VM Management Objective Reports
    MNVMCMBO - Monthly VM Management Objective Reports

The following sections present more specific information on
the VM reports:

   1 - Daily VM Reports
   2 - Weekly VM Reports
   3 - Monthly VM Reports
   4 - VM Management Objective Report Options