Creating a performance analysis report

Complete this task to create a performance analysis report on your ProtecTIER system for use by IBM Service.

About this task

Create a performance analysis report for the nodes in your system when you want to analyze your system statistics.

Procedure

  1. If you are using a single node configuration, connect a USB keyboard and graphics-capable monitor to the server.
  2. If you using in a clustered configuration, verify that both Server A and Server B are running:
    • Yes, continue to step 3
    • No, power on any servers that are not running, wait for the boot cycle to complete, and then continue to step 3
  3. At the localhost Login prompt, type: ptconfig and press <enter>.
  4. At the Password prompt, type: ptconfig and press <enter>
    The ProtecTIER System Menu displays:
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     ProtecTIER Service Menu running on rassmx                                    
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      1) ProtecTIER Configuration (...)                                           
      2) Manage ProtecTIER services (...)                                         
      3) Health Monitoring (...)                                                  
      4) Problem Alerting (...)                                                   
      5) Version Information (...)																			       
      6) Generate a service report                                                
      7) Generate a system view										                             
      8) Update ProtecTIER code                                                   
      9) ProtecTIER Analysis (...)                                                
                                                                                  
      E) Exit                                                                     
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    >>> Your choice?
  5. Select ProtecTIER Analysis. Type the corresponding number and press <enter>. The Performance Analysis (...) menu displays:
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     ProtecTIER Service Menu running on rassmx                                    
                Performance Analysis (...)                                        
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      1) Performance Analysis                                                     
                                                                                  
      B) Back                                                                     
      E) Exit                                                                     
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    >>> Your choice?
  6. Select Performance Analysis. Type the corresponding number and press <enter>. The following output is displayed:
    Begin Processing Procedure [Jan 29 06:50:41]
    Please provide the following information: ('q' to quit)
    1) Date interval.
    2) Specific number of days from current date backwards.
    Choose:
  7. Enter the date to filter the report data in one of the following ways:
    • Provide date interval on the next format [YYYYMMDDHHMMSS].
    • Provide specific number of days to analyze, for example: 20D (20 days), 1W (one week), 1M (one month).
  8. In case of running on a cluster system the script will prompt to ask if a performance analysis of the other node is needed. Select Yes or No and press <enter>. If running on a single node the script will start.
  9. The performance analysis is generated according to the dates provided. The following example output is displayed:
    Choose: 2
    Period of time to analyze (Example: 20D, 2W, 1M, 1Y) : 20D
    Do you want to performa a cluster analysis? (yes|no) yes
    Getting Statistics                                		[ Done ]
    Running performance analysis                      		[ Done ]
    Performance analysis located at /pt_work/performance_2016_01_29_22_41_06.tar.gz
    
    End Processing Procedure Successfully [Jan 29 22:37:09]
    
    Press <enter> to continue.

Results

HTML files are created presenting the analysis report. The tar file generated needs to be extracted from ProtecTIER and opened on a host machine. After the file is uncompressed the directory will have the next files:
[root@Ronaldo Charts]# ll -h
total 64K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K Jan 29 22:41 clusterwide.htm
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Jan 26 09:26 HTML
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.8K Jan 29 22:41 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  15K Jan 29 22:41 node1.htm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  15K Jan 29 22:41 node2.htm
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jan 29 22:28 Results

Open the index.html file in a browser to view the report.