8. CA MICS NSM Integration (MTI) › 8.1 NSM Systems Performance

8.1 NSM Systems Performance

NSM is the management solution that enables businesses to get
the most out of their technology infrastructure.  By
providing a universal method for monitoring and managing all
your mission-critical resources, this powerful solution
enables you to gain and maintain control of your existing
environment while confidently exploiting new technologies and
new business opportunities.

NSM dynamically models your environment.  Its powerful
EnterpriseDiscovery (TM) automatically discovers your entire
spectrum of IT assets and populates the object repository
with the information it has identified about the various
devices, their relationships, connections, and topology.

As part of its base functionality, NSM enterprise management
includes comprehensive performance management capabilities.
Utilizing intelligent agents, thresholds, and correlation,
NSM continually monitors performance, collects usage data for
long-term planning and trend analysis, and manages unexpected
performance problems before they impact business operations.

NSM lets administrators view their entire environment at once
with functions that analyze and present data in a meaningful
and consistent form.  With this global view, administrators
can better pinpoint bottlenecks, identify components that are
consuming excessive resources, and evaluate how changing
system parameters will affect performance.

NSM samples and stores both real-time and historical data
with its base agent technology.  These agents have small
footprints and can save performance data locally, placing
minimal demands on networked systems.  The type of
performance information collected is easily selected from a
wide range of predefined choices.

NSM enables administrators to configure performance agents
with threshold policies.  When the performance of any
component falls outside the policy bounds, an event is
escalated to the NSM Domain Manager.  The Domain Manager
references its own policy to determine how best to respond to
the situation.  Domain Managers are thus able to resolve more
complex or wide-ranging performance issues.

For more information about NSM, including how to contact CA
with questions or requests, please visit the CA web site:
www.ca.com.