Resource Usage & Capacity Management

Seventeenth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference

in Large UNIX Environments

PID  :  87632

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

What has been standard resource usage and capacity management practice for most mainframe shops is notyet in common practice in many UNIX based environments. With the continued movement of businesscritical IS functions to UNIX based distributed processing systems, the current situation is changing.This paper recommends a UNIX resource usage data collection process that satisfies the data requirements ofUNIX capacity management. It also addresses the problem in large UNIX environments of data overload, byrecommending a specific set of key indicators to retain, as well as what UNIX as and network resourceusage levels to use for exception reporting. The recommendations are based on the experiences of working inNorthwest Airlines' large, highly integrated UNIX environment used for the processing of several importantIS business applications. The solution implemented at Northwest Airlines was to loosely couple a UNIXbased, SNMP compliant, resource usage and event monitoring software package, and a network monitoringsoftware package with the UNIX version of SAS. Together they provided the ability to collect, manage,