Highlights
- Provides a quick and simple solution for obtaining and analyzing detailed system information
- Generates reports on system activity over hours, days or weeks
- Supports distributed performance monitoring
- Provides the ability to customize views for monitoring
- Provides access to thousands of system metrics
- Unlimited license for Performance AIDE
- Licensed program product supporting AIX® V4.3.3 or later
- Designed to support IBM Systems based on Power Architecture™ technology running the AIX operating system
Advantages
- Trend Analysis features
- Scaling enhancements to support 24/7 recordings of hundreds of system metrics
- Simplified Performance AIDE packaging and licensing
- Serviced and supported by IBM worldwide
Description
The AIX Performance Toolbox (PTX) for POWER™ Version 3.0 is a licensed program product that provides a comprehensive tool for monitoring and tuning system performance in distributed environments. In conjunction with the Performance AIDE, PTX provides the user the ability to concurrently visualize live performance on multiple systems. The AIDE also provides agents for creating 24X7 recordings of large sets of performance metrics, and for filtering data based off of user-customized criteria. Filtering criteria can be used to generate events to a monitoring console or execute administration scripts. Additional utilities are provided to convert recorded data into formats suitable for import by third-party spreadsheets.
By providing an umbrella for tools that can be used to analyze performance data and control system resources, PTX assists the system administrator in keeping track of available tools and in applying them in appropriate ways. This is done through a customizable menu interface. Tools can be added to menus, either with fixed parameters to match specific situations or in a dialog window.
New Java-based analysis interfaces focus on trend analysis of large sets of performance metrics. A new interface provides a variety of visualizations for Workload Manager (WLM) activity, allowing class and resource usage to be compared across different time periods. Other enhancements simplify remote recording configurations and overall product scalability.