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Identifying a host performance problem 59
Reporting on Your Datacenter
Identifying a host performance problem
This example demonstrates how a UNIX administrator and DBA use Performance
Manager to identify a host performance problem. In this example, a company’s sales
department noticed that sales transactions were processing slower than normal
during the day on 3/30/06 and in the morning and afternoon on 3/31/06. They
informed the CTO.
The sales transactions are handled by an Oracle database that resides on host
l82ar156. Host l82ar156 is connected to EMC Symmetrix
®
storage array
000187400075. The CTO contacts the Oracle database administrator (DBA) who
works with one of the UNIX administrators to investigate the problems.
The administrator launches the Performance Manager Console and then opens the
Repository that contains the performance data collected on 3/30/06 to see why the
sales department noticed performance problems with the Oracle database on this
day.
To complete this task, the UNIX administrator:
1. In the Ionix ControlCenter Console, on the File menu, selects Launch >
Performance Manager.
The Performance Manager login screen appears Figure 35.
Figure 35 Performance Manager login screen