As I mentioned on Monday we’re picking up data from APM such as:
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Transaction times
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Transaction counts
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Transaction type
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End to end
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Per server
In
effect all that information you could never get from
the business, in one handy location -so what do we do with it now?
Given access to monitoring we can
look not just at the transactions, response time etc but correlate that with
the hardware utilization.
Suddenly we can put a value (in
utilization) of an individual transaction.
With all this data coming at us it makes sense that if we're going to use it together we store it together.
CMIS is the acronym for Capacity
Management Information System and it definitely is the way to go.
Forget multiple databases, you barely
have time to think, yet you’re going to maintain and run multiple databases and
associated software to try and tie the data together?
Centralize, combine, aggregate,
just stick it all in one place and make your life easy.
Centralize, have a single interface
to all data.Get all the data in one place, then you can use it as one entity.
Organise, mirror the organisation,
organize it around the services or “whatever” makes sense to your
business but preferably don't organize it by
tech silo.
Automate, too many capacity planners are
still copying data from one place to another every week. Computers are great at
performing repetitive tasks, use them.
After Spring break, I'll look at the reality of how people get data. If you'd like to listen to my webinar on this subject it's available to download http://www.metron-athene.com/_downloads/on-demand-webinars/index_2.asp
Phil Bell
Consultant
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