Capacity Manager

The Capacity Manager task is a resource-management planning tool that you can use to monitor critical resources, such as processor usage, hard disk capacity, memory usage, and network traffic; identify current or potential bottlenecks for an individual server or a group of servers; generate performance-analysis reports and recommends ways to improve performance and prevent diminished performance or downtime; and forecast performance trends.

Capacity Manager has three components:
Monitor Activator
Displays the status of resource and performance-analysis monitors on managed systems; you can specify which monitors are active. When new hardware is detected, corresponding monitors are activated automatically.
Report Generator
Provides Report Definitions, which you can customize for generating reports.
Report Viewer
Provides four views of your generated report data and graphs of monitor performance.
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Supported IBM Director objects Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems

For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Extension to the standard IBM Director product, which must be purchased separately.
Required hardware or hardware limitations Designed specifically for use on xSeries and Netfinity servers.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task Any generated reports that you selected to save to a file. Unless you specify another directory in the report definition, these files are located in the following applicable directory:
  • (For Linux) /opt/ibm/director/reports where:
  • (For Windows) c:\Program Files\IBM\director\reports
where:
  • director is the default directory in which IBM Director Console is installed.
  • reports is the default directory where the reports are stored and exported by the user.
Events associated with this task Capacity Manager

For detailed events information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

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