Friday, 12 May 2017

It's all about the CMIS - What does a CMIS contain? (3 of 9)


A CMIS typically contains capacity and performance related time-series data captured from all sub-process levels.  This data is typically captured and stored to produce recurrence, exception and forecasted reports and plans to the business. 

An example of some of the metrics that should be captured and stored within the CMIS:

        Component

        Server information e.g. CPU, memory, disks etc

        SAN information e.g. Buffer cache, IO Response

        Application specific metrics

        Network usage e.g. Port, switch, router

        Service

        Service response times

        Transaction volumes

        Reliability,  failure rates

        Business

        Forecast information

        Strategy

        Finance

The information captured can be kept native, filtered, aggregated and used for longer term trend analysis.

Capturing and storing the data into a single system provides many benefits which will be explained throughout this white paper, but notably:

        Different metrics

        Same metrics, different sample

        Combinations of metrics for correlation

The ability to bring information together from the different sub-processes onto a single report or chart allows for correlation analysis to take place, for example whether an increase in the numbers of transaction volumes has an effect on the CPU or Memory utilization or whether business forecasts meet reality.

 The information captured can be kept native, filtered, aggregated and used for longer term trend analysis.
On Monday I'll be discussing why the CMIS is so important.
Jamie Baker
Principal Consultant

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