System Status Workspace

The System Status workspace reflects the health of your DB2 system.

This workspace is comprised of the following views:

System Key Events (table view)

Shows the system key events.

System Key Events (bar chart)

Shows the system key events.

DDF Send Rate (needle gauge)

Reports the send rate of the Distributed Data Facility (DDF).

DDF Receive Rate (needle gauge)

Reports the receive rate of the Distributed Data Facility (DDF).

Thread Events Approaching Max (bar chart view)

EDM Utilization (needle gauge)

Reports the number of current EDM pages divided by total EDM pages for DB2 9 or below. For DB2 10 or later, it reports the number of current DBD pages divided by total DBD pages.

DBAT Wait Percent (needle gauge)

Shows the percentage of threads that are waiting for database services.

System State Information (table view)

Provides activity and performance details of your DB2 system.

Operating System CPU (table view)

Provides CPU information about the operating system.

Operating System CPU Utilization (bar chart)

Provides CPU information about the operating system.

You can use the HTML navigation feature to navigate from one workspace to another, while passing context information to the next workspace. The workspaces that belong to the same functional unit are linked using HTML navigation. Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces are grouped into the following units: Thread Summary workspaces, Thread Detail workspaces, and Statistics workspaces.

Based on the information that this workspace provides, you can recommend changes, set up situations, and verify that your recommended changes improve system performance.