Introduction to NonStop Operations Management

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Performance Management
Performance Management
1. Establish service-level agreements.
2. Assign staff to the capacity-planning, application-sizing, and performance-analysis
functions. Provide training as needed.
3. Establish procedures for application sizing. Typically, the application-sizing staff:
a. Establishes sizing requirements and strategy
b. Forecasts and develops models of future demands
c. Reports results
4. Establish procedures for capacity planning. Typically, the capacity-planning staff:
a. Establishes capacity-planning requirements and strategy
b. Institutes performance reporting
c. Forecasts and develops models of future demands
d. Develops the capacity plan
5. Establish procedures for performance analysis and tuning. Typically, the
performance-analysis-and-tuning staff:
a. Establishes performance requirements
b. Measures performance
c. Acts on collected data to optimize system performance
d. Reports results and provides capacity planners with data
6. Select tools to help with performance management. Some of the tools Tandem offers
are:
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DSAP
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Enform
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Flow Map
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Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA)
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Measure
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NSX
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NSKCOM
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PEEK
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Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)/Subsystem Control Point (SCP)
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Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) and MeasTCM
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Tandem Performance Data Collector (TPDC)
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Tandem Reload Analyzer
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TSM EMS Event Viewer
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ViewSys