Performance Data Investigator in re-created IBM Navigator for i

Find the Performance task by the circular chart icon on the left navigation:

The Investigate Data action brings you to the Perspectives List for all packages loaded on this GUI node.

You are presented a sorted list, which can be customized according to your preferences. The default first view is to show only the Collection Services package. Use the pull-down menu under Package Name to select other packages.

The Context section can be modified to quickly change the Collection library, graph interval, and collection name before selecting a perspective to view. Select your collection first. When you click the perspective name, it launches to those views for the selected collection and uses the selected graph interval for display.

PDI now loads the PML packages from the managing node. The heritage Navigator loads the PML from the target system.

Any custom charts need to be in the IFS directory where created, but on the managing node to be available with PDI in the New Navigator. The custom charts will be available to use on any of the managed nodes.

Custom perspective functionality is not available on this version of Navigator for i.

The charts look and function like the Dojo charts provided in heritage Navigator:

The General Health Indicators warning and action thresholds are displayed with the tooltips:

Launch to the collection table from the Performance task. Select All Collections or filter by a type: Collection Services, Job Watcher, or Disk Watcher collections

The Collection Actions are enhanced for efficiency and usability. It is easy to perform actions on multiple collections at one time with clarity:

The Properties panel is enhanced to show all pertinent collection information on one page:

The Configuration panel is enhanced for ease of use. The settings are grouped with their related settings. The tab sections are:

• General
• Data to Collect
• System Monitor Data
• Historical Data

The retention settings for each collection type (standard, system monitor, and historical) are found in the tab for that specific type.

The General tab contains all the settings and actions to do with Collection Services in general:

• The status is shown on the configuration panel
• Stop, start, or cycle the Collector from this panel
• Configure library, default collection interval, and cycle settings here
• Set the collection object (*CSMGTCOL) and standard database files (*CSFILE) retention times

The properties shows all the Collection Services properties in one place:

The Data to Collect tab allows you to specify the predefined profile or customized categories.

• The predefined profiles display the list of categories that are collected by each setting when selected
• When selecting a custom profile, you can start with a predefined profile so no important metrics are missed
• Configure each metric to the custom intervals

The System Monitor Data tab allows setting of the system monitor categories that can be collected.

Categories selected will cauase specific system monitor database files to be created. System monitor database files contain system-level calculated metrics (often percentages or rates) which are grouped, summarized, or averaged for multiple entities.

Selecting a category may also cause additional standard collection services categories to be collected and created to provide the data depended upon for the system monitor metrics to be calculated.

• Option to turn on system monitor collection is now on this tab with other settings for System Monitors
• System Monitor retention settings are also found here
• The default system monitor categories setting provides a list of what is collected for default settings
• Customized collection intervals are easy to change
• "Reset System monitor Collection Interval" can quickly return the system collection intervals back to the default settings without the manual steps that were required previously.

Reset System Monitor Collection Interval button performs the steps needed to reset the collection intervals and prevent the Collector from continuing to collect at smaller intervals

1. Turn off system monitoring
2. Set collection frequency for all system monitor categories back to the original default of one minute.
3. Optionally cycle the collector to have this change take effect immediately

The Historical Data tab is a panel to configure the summary and detail historical data collected.

• Option to turn on historical data collection
• Collection interval
• Option to turn off detail data as well as number of top contributors that will be saved
• Historical data retention settings for both summary and detail data

Graph History looks and functions like PDI Graph History in the heritage Navigator: