Chapter 3: Characterize Workloads

This chapter describes the following attributes:

Defining Workloads
Creating User-Group Workload Definitions
Defining User-Group Families
Creating Transaction Workload Definitions
Defining Transaction Families
Using Workload Families with CA Data

The Performance Agent allows you to group system resource use into manageable units called workloads. Workloads can represent the resource use of users who are part of an organization, such as accounting or finance. Categorizing your system activity in this manner creates workloads focused on the user aspect of system resource use. Alternatively, workloads can be groups of similar images that represent system resources used by particular applications, such as order entry or inventory control. Categorizing your system activity in this manner creates workloads focused on the transaction consuming system resources.

Workloads can thus be used to view your computer resource use from two different perspectives, by users or by tasks being performed. This double mapping of computer resources allows great flexibility in reporting, graphing, and archiving.

This section contains the following topics:

Define Workloads

Create User-Group Workload Definitions

Define User-Group Families

Create Transaction Workload Definitions

Define Transaction Families

Use Workload Families with CA Data