Configuring your product with performance analysis data

Configure Control Desk with optimized settings.

About this task

The IBM Performance Analysis Suite checks Control Desk for compliance with best practices and optimized performance settings. The IBM Performance Analysis Suite collects configuration data about the database, host operating system settings, WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment and IBM® HTTP Server, applies a set of performance metrics to the data, and then generates a report.

The system tuner utility takes IBM Performance Analysis Suite data and automatically configures your environment and middleware.

Procedure

Click the link on the Control Desk launchpad to download the IBM Performance Analysis Suite from the IBM developerWorks community and install it on the Control Desk administrative workstation.
Analyze your Control Desk deployment with the IBM Performance Analysis Suite and export the IBM Performance Analysis Suite workspace. Refer to the IBM Performance Analysis Suite developerWorks community for information about using IBM Performance Analysis Suite.
Log on to the Control Desk administrative workstation, open a command prompt, and change to the install_home\scripts directory.
Run the tuneSystem command. All parameters listed are required.
```
tuneSystem -d install_dir -e env_name -w workspace_zip_file 
-r [generate|update] -c [warning|critical] -o output_dir -p plugin_name 
```
--debug

Use this parameter to turn on debug logging.

-d install_dir

Use this parameter to specify where the IBM Performance Analysis Suite is installed on the system.

-e env_name

Use this parameter to enter the name of the environment you defined when you used the IBM Performance Analysis Suite to collect data about your environment.

-w workspace_zip_file

Use this parameter to enter the name of the zipped file containing the data that was collected when you used the IBM Performance Analysis Suite.

-r [generate|update]

Use this parameter to generate scripts to update Control Desk configuration.
If you use generate, the scripts are generated in the output directory you specify. You must manually run these scripts to re-configure Control Desk. A file with an extension of .sql is generated to update the Control Desk database. A file with an extension of .py is generated to update the Control Desk application server. A file with an extension of .sh or .bat is generated to update the Control Desk administrative workstation.

If you use update, the scripts are generated and then run on the system to update Control Desk configuration.

-c [warning|critical]

Use this parameter to specify which conditions identified by the IBM Performance Analysis Suite to update in Control Desk. If you use critical, configuration values that were categorized as critical by the IBM Performance Analysis Suite are updated by the Control Desk system tuner utility. If you use warning, configuration values that were categorized as either critical or warnings by the IBM Performance Analysis Suite are updated by the Control Desk system tuner utility.

-o output_dir

Use this parameter to specify where to output the scripts generated by the Control Desk system tuner utility.

-p plugin_name

Use this parameter to enter the name of the plugin you specified when you used the IBM Performance Analysis Suite.

-h

Use this parameter to display help for the tuneSystem command.
```
tuneSystem -d install_dir -e env_name -w workspace_zip_file 
-r [generate|update] -c [warning|critical] -o output_dir -p plugin_name 
```

What to do next

Use the IBM Performance Analysis Suite and the tuneSystem command to perform Control Desk configuration updates as part of your regularly scheduled maintenance program.

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