Chapter 5: Dump Reports

Chapter 5: Dump Reports

This chapter contains sample Performance Agent dump reports and information to help you interpret them.

This chapter describes the following topics:

• Reports for Selected Data or Time Periods
• Interpreting the Dump Reports

The Performance Agent dump reports allow you to view data extracted from database files for a specified time period. You can specify a collection definition or accept the default CPD collection definition. You can view items in a Performance Agent data record by using the ADVISE COLLECT REPORT DUMP_ALL command. The DUMP_ALL report provides the following subrecords:

• Metrics subrecords
• Parameters subrecords
• Rule subrecords
• Process subrecords
• Disk subrecords
• Tape subrecords
• Communications subrecords
• Configuration and SCS subrecords
• CPU subrecords
• Hot file subrecords (only in daily data)

The Performance Agent repeats this information for each record and for each node if more than one node is selected for reporting.

This section contains the following topics:

Reports for Selected Data or Time Periods

Interpret the Dump Reports

Reports for Selected Data or Time Periods

A single dump record represents a substantial amount of data because one record of the database file equals all of the individual data items for one interval during the scheduled collection time. A sizeable report with many printed pages of output can be generated from a one-record DUMP_ALL report that covers an interval of two minutes.