Introduction to NonStop Operations Management

Operations Management Tools
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Measure
Measure
Measure is a performance-measurement tool that lets technical specialists or operators
collect and examine statistics for a system. It gives specialists or operators immediate,
online access to performance statistics for key system and network components,
including complex business applications. Specialists or operators can optimize online
transaction-processing applications by using the statistics gathered by Measure.
Measure collects data about a set of resources and workloads called entities. These
entities include:
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Processors
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Disk drives
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Files
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Processes
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NonStop TM/MP transactions
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SQL/MP entities
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Communication lines
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Terminals
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Remote systems
For each entity type that you select for measurement, Measure gathers information by a
set of predetermined counters. For example, if you select a processor entity, the counters
collect such information as the processor busy time, the interrupt busy time, the number
of pages swapped, and so forth.
You can supplement the predetermined counters with your own counters. User-defined
counters can be used to specify new performance indicators for your applications. For
example, you can set counters to measure user transactions, the length of a request
queue for a particular process, or the amount of time spent by a program in performing
certain functions.
In addition, Measure allows you to:
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Monitor the system continuously. Measure can handle up to 64 concurrent
measurements started by multiple users. This continuous monitoring capability also
makes it practical to collect performance statistics on an ongoing basis for capacity
planning purposes.
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Monitor the network continuously. Each network node can collect information to be
used by Measure. For example, you can track both the data traffic going into a node
and the data traffic going out of a node.
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Produce reports with Enform.
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Create management applications for performance measurement. You can implement
customized performance-measurement tools based on Measure collection
capabilities, or you can use the Measure programmable interface.