User`s guide

Set up TRAKKER to log the data of interest to disk at some regular interval (usually 15-60 minutes). Although in theory
TRAKKER will continue to log data until your disk space is totally consumed, we recommend that the log file be moved out of
the path of TRAKKER, processed into your PDB, and then archived to tape fairly frequently (daily).
To set up MeasureWare to monitor your systems, issue this command on each system:
mwa start
(The MeasureWare command is located in the bin subdirectory of the directory in which MeasureWare is installed)
This will start MeasureWare’s SCOPE/UX and other appropriate demons to begin monitoring your system. (This command
should probably be part of your system initialization script. See the MeasureWare User’s Manual and Installation Manual for
details on installing and starting MeasureWare.)
Run the MeasureWare extract utility (from the MeasureWare bin directory) to "export" the metrics to a file. You tell the extract
command which metrics you want to export in an extract "report file". An example of this file usually appears in file data/reptall
in the directory that MeasureWare is installed in.
Though the extraction and processing of the data (by using a CSPROCES macro) can theoretically occur at any interval, we
recommend daily processing of the data.
For more information on using the extract command, see the man page for extract.
Note that IT Service Vision requires the following additions/updates to the default list of metrics in the example report file.
Include DATE and TIME for every data type.
DATE and TIME are generated automatically in the MeasureWare data record header, but the header
value is accurate only to a second. By requesting DATE and TIME explicitly, your DATETIME values in
your PDB DETAIL data sets will be more accurate (to hundredths of a second).
Do not request HISTOGRAM-type metrics.
Histogram data is more useful for online quick inquiries into the MeasureWare data rather than for long
term, historical analysis with IT Service Vision software. Also, histogram data can produce errors in the
extract utility.
Use FORMAT BINARY instead of FORMAT ASCII.
IT Service Vision expects the exported data to be in binary format.