Analyzing the performance data
You can use rules of thumb to analyze data in the Performance Warehouse database.
For information about how to load data, see Scenario 1: Transferring performance data into the Performance Warehouse database. You can analyze the data using all rules of thumb in a cluster or using individual rules of thumb. If you analyze an entire rule-of-thumb cluster, the analysis result will show a column for each of the rules of thumb in the cluster.
Several users can analyze the same data at the same time. To avoid a locking conflict, make sure that you are not analyzing the data while another user is loading data into the Performance Warehouse database.
- To analyze the data, do one of the following:
- If you want to use a single rule of thumb:
- In the folders pane of the Performance Warehouse
window, select
the appropriate rule-of-thumb cluster and then click its subitem Rules
of Thumb.
The contents pane lists all rules of thumb that you defined for this rule-of-thumb cluster.
- Select the rule of thumb you want and then click .
- In the folders pane of the Performance Warehouse
window, select
the appropriate rule-of-thumb cluster and then click its subitem Rules
of Thumb.
- If you want to use all rules of thumb defined for a rule-of-thumb
cluster:
In the folders pane of the Performance Warehouse window, select the appropriate rule-of-thumb cluster and then click .
The Options page of the Rules-of-Thumb Analysis window is displayed, which shows the filter expression specified for the rule-of-thumb cluster.
- If you want to use a single rule of thumb:
- Specify filter criteria. For more information refer to Specifying filter criteria.
- Resolve variables. For more information refer to Resolving variables.
- Sort the analysis result by the result of the arithmetic expression defined for a specific rule of thumb. For more information refer to Sorting the analysis result.
- Click Analyze to run the analysis.
The Result matrix page of the Rules-of-Thumb Analysis window is displayed. For more information about this and the other pages of this window, see Viewing and understanding the analysis result.